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Igor Kusin (born 27 June 1963 in
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) is a
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and author from Zagreb.


Biography

Igor Kusin was born to a
bilingual Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. When the languages are just two, it is usually called bilingualism. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolin ...
family on 27 June 1963. He finished his primary education at the Krajiška elementary schoolToday th
Petar Zrinski
elementary school.
in Zagreb, where he proved to have talents for both languages and
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. He came first at the municipal mathematics competition for sixth form pupils. He graduated from the Mathematical-Informatical Grammar School (
MIOC MIOC may refer to: * XV Gymnasium Fifteenth Gymnasium () is a public high school in Zagreb, Croatia. It specializes in mathematics and computer science. It was previously called MIOC (; ) and is still well known under that name. History The schoo ...
) in Zagreb. Afterwards he enrolled into the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the
University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb (, ) is a public university, public research university in Zagreb, Croatia. It is the largest Croatian university and one of the oldest continuously operating universities in Europe. The University of Zagreb and the Unive ...
, but left it and worked on minor jobs for a decade. Unsatisfied with his working conditions, he enrolled into the University of Zagreb again, this time at the
Faculty of Philosophy A faculty is a division within a university or college comprising one subject area or a group of related subject areas, possibly also delimited by level (e.g. undergraduate). In North America, academic divisions are sometimes titled colleges, sc ...
. There he graduated from general
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, which reconciled his passion for both mathematics and languages, as well as from
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, with the thesis ''Indo-European sources of Old Irish Versification''. He immediately enrolled into a
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at the same Faculty and at the moment is pursuing his PhD.


Additional education

Igor Kusin attended other, extracurricular courses and classes. He learned English, French, Italian and German at foreign language schoolsCentar za strane jezike
an
Sova
in Zagreb. In the summer of 1995, he attended a fortnight course of (contemporary)
Irish language Irish (Standard Irish: ), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic ( ), is a Celtic language of the Indo-European language family. It is a member of the Goidelic languages of the Insular Celtic sub branch of the family and is indigenous ...
organised by the Oidhreacht Chorca DhuibhneOidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne
/ref> in
Ballyferriter ( Irish, meaning 'Ferriter's Townland' ) unofficially anglicised as Ballyferriter, or also known as , is a Gaeltacht village in County Kerry, Ireland. It is in the west of the (Dingle) peninsula and according to the 2002 census, about 75% of ...
in
County Kerry County Kerry () is a Counties of Ireland, county on the southwest coast of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, within the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. It is bordered by two other countie ...
,
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. In the summer of 1998, he attended the ''4th Summer School of Comparative Celtic Linguistics and Medieval Irish Studies'' at the NUI
Maynooth Maynooth (; ) is a university town in north County Kildare, Ireland. It is home to Maynooth University (part of the National University of Ireland and also known as the National University of Ireland, Maynooth) and St Patrick's College, Maynoo ...
, in
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, Ireland, and in autumn of the same year he attended the 2nd Seminar on Old Norse Mythology and Literature ''Myth and the Heroic Tradition in Old Norse Literature'' in
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, Croatia.


Hebrew language

After attending courses in
Hebrew Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...
at both the Zagreb Jewish CommunityŽidovska općina Zagreb
/ref> for two years and the Faculty of Philosophy for one year, Igor Kusin found both methods too slow, so in 1999 he decided to learn Hebrew in
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, where he completed the second level (of six) at the Summer School of Hebrew at
Tel-Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) is a Public university, public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the university is the center of teaching and ...
, in Ramat-Aviv. He compiled the etymology of words of Hebrew origin in ''Enciklopedijski rječnik hrvatskoga jezika'' (''Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Croatian Language''), that was first published in 2001 as a single volume,Hrvatski enciklopedijski rječnik – Impressum, Foreword, Introduction
in Croatian, p. 5.
and then republished in twelve smaller volumes in 2004–05. He started teaching his fellow linguistic students Hebrew for several years. In 2008 he began lecturing ''Introduction into Hebrew Language'' as a non-compulsory subject at the Faculty of Philosophy, as a part-time lecturer.Information System of Higher Education Institutions of the Republic of Croatia (ISVU)
, in Croatian.
In 2013, he was employed at the Faculty of Philosophy as instructor (Croatian: "asistent"), teaching subjects on Hebrew language at the newly established Chair of Judaic Studies.Chair of Judaic Studies
in Croatian.


Sign language

After attending a one-semestral course of
Croatian Sign Language Croatian Sign Language (, HZJ) is a sign language of the deaf community in Croatia. It has in the past been regarded as a dialect of Yugoslav Sign Language, although the dialectical diversity of the former Yugoslavia has not been assessed.Bickfo ...
at the Faculty of Special Education and RehabilitationEdukacijsko rehabilitacijski fakultet
/ref> of the University of Zagreb, he started and completed the two-year Croatian Sign Language course organised by the Croatian Association of Deafblind Persons ''Dodir''.Hrvatska udruga gluhoslijepih osoba ''Dodir''
/ref> In 2007 he held the lecture ''O nekim značajkama znakovnih jezika (s primjerima iz hrvatskog znakovnog jezika)'' (''On Some Characteristics of Sign Languages (with Examples from Croatian Sign Language)'') at the Zagreb Linguistic Circle.Zagrebački lingvistički krug
/ref> The same year and the following one he spoke about ''Govornici znakovnog jezika kao jezična i kulturna manjina'' (''Sign Language Users as a Linguistic and Cultural Minority'') at a series of round table discussions entitled ''Kroz toleranciju različitosti do razvoja zajednice'' (''Towards the Development of the Community by Tolerating Diversity'') in various cities in Croatia. In 2010 he held a lecture entitled ''Komunikacija s pacijentima govornicima znakovnog jezika'' (''Communication with Sign Language Using Patients'') at the 2nd Croatian Congress on Preventive Medicine and Health Promotion with international participation ''Equal in Health'' in Zagreb, Croatia.Th
program of the event
, p. 64.
He was one of the collaborators in the textbooks ''Znak po znak 2 – udžbenik za učenje hrvatskoga znakovnog jezika'' (''Sign by Sign 2 – a Croatian Sign Language Textbook'') and ''Znak po znak 3 – udžbenik za učenje hrvatskoga znakovnog jezika'' (''Sign by Sign 3 – a Croatian Sign Language Textbook''), published by the Croatian Association of Deafblind Persons ''Dodir'' in 2006 and 2007 respectively. In 2008-2012 he was the editor of Dodir magazine (issues 34 through 46), the journal of the Croatian Association of Deafblind Persons ''Dodir''. He also contributed articles for the magazine even before and after that period.Dodir magazine online
in Croatia.
In 2012 he was approached by the Croatian Association of Deafblind Persons ''Dodir'' to write a foreword for a collection of poems by two Croatian deafblind poets, Željko Bosilj and Nikola Rundek. The collection, entitled ''Svjetlo i zvuk u našim su rukama'' (''Light and Sound Are in Our Own Hands'') was published in
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and
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simultaneously.


Literary works

In 2000, he published a short story, entitled ''Trio za flautu, obou i fagot'' (''Trio for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon'') in the ''Republika'' literary magazine. Next year he
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a small collection of lyrics, ''Floccōsae''.


Other works

In 2003, at the 17th conference of the Croatian Applied Linguistics SocietyHrvatsko društvo za primijenjenu lingvistiku
/ref> ''Language in Social Interaction'', he held a lecture with Zrinka Jelaska, PhD, ''Hrvatski idiomi u susretu s drugima, ali i sa samim sobom'' (''Croatian Idioms in Contact''),Croatian Scientific Bibliography
in Croatian.
in
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, Croatia. The text of the lecture was published in 2005 as ''Usustavljivanje naziva'' (''Systematisation of Terminology'')Croatian Scientific Bibliography
in Croatian.
in the volume ''Hrvatski kao drugi i strani jezik'' (''Croatian as a Second and Foreign Language'') edited and co-authored by Zrinka Jelaska.
, in Croatian.

review of the book
by Ivana Olujić and Clara Căpăţînă from Philologica Jassyensia, An II, Nr. 2, 2006, pp. 306–307, in
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.
In 2003, he also published the paper ''Autobiografije s Blasketa'' (''Autobiographies from the
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'') in ''Književna smotra''.Croatian Scientific Bibliography
in Croatian.
Th
entire text of the paper
in Croatian.

review of the whole volume
by Jelena Gluhak from
Vijenac ''Vijenac'' ( English: '' The Wreath'') is a biweekly magazine for literature, art and science, established in December 1993 and published by ''Matica hrvatska'', the central national cultural institution in Croatia. Historical background The ...
magazine, number 258, 22 January 2004, in Croatian.
In 2011, he co-wrote the paper ''Sexual Revolution in Croatia'', presented by Dr. Denisa Legac at the conference ''Sexual Revolution'', held in
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,
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. Kusin signed the
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of the
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,
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,
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and
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.Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language
official website, retrieved on 2022-01-18.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kusin, Igor 1963 births Linguists from Croatia Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb alumni Academic staff of the University of Zagreb Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language Living people Croatian writers