Dr. Srecko Koralija
PROFILE
- Director of the Dominican Research Institute (DRI)
- Mentor for English speaking students
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
- 1 October 2024 - 30 September 2025: Assistant Professor of Theology and Leadership, School of Business and Economics & School of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- 2022-2024 Post-Doc/Onderzoeker ‘Moral Leadership’- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (School of Business and Economics & Faculty of Religion and Theology)
- 2014-2016 Member of the International Intellectual Commission of the Order of Preachers
- 2014-2018 Member of the International Group for Interreligious Dialogue as the Representative for Europe (OP)
- 2013-2016 Coordinator of the Regents of Studies of Europe
- 2012-2016 Regent of Studies of the Croatian Dominican province
EDUCATION
- PhD in Theology and Religious Studies (as a Vice-Chancellor’s Scholar of the University of Cambridge), Faculty of Divinity, UK, 2016-2020.
- MSt in Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, UK, 2014-2015.
- MSt in Syriac Studies, University of Oxford, UK, 2013-2015.
- Sacrae Scripturae Bachalaureus, Pontifical Biblical Commission, Rome-Vatican
- MA in Theology, University of Fribourg (Switzerland), 2010-2012
- BA in Theology, University of Fribourg (Switzerland), 2007-2010.
GRANTS/AWARDS
*Travel grant for: Meta-Analysis in Management. Basic Steps, Advanced Techniques, and Publication (Durham University Business School), Durham, UK, 11-12 April, 2024.
* Travel grant for the conference 'From the disconnected letters to the science of letters: a meeting of knowledges in the Middle East' / 'Des lettres isolées à la science des lettres: un carrefour de savoirs au Proche-Orient' (ﻣـﻦ اﻟﺤـﺮوف اﻟـﻤﻘﻄﻌﺔ إﻟـﻰ ﻋـﻠﻢ اﻟﺤـﺮوف، ﺗﺠـﻤﻊ اﻟـﻤﻌﺎرف ﻓـﻲ اﻟﺸـﺮق اﻷدﻧﻰ) Erbil, Iraq, 5-6 November, 2022 (IFPO - Institut français du Proche-Orient)
*Beth Mardutho book grant; Beth Mardutho partial fellowship in Digital Humanities by correspondence (Jan-Jun 2020)
*Travel grant [within the LinkSyr project] for the 'Bootcamp: NLP tools for Syriac, 17-18 January 2019' [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]
*Travel grant for the 'The Future of Syriac Studies and the Legacy of Sebastian P. Brock' conference, Sigtuna, Sweden, 12-15 June, 2018) - Theological Studies Fund, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge
*Travel grant for the OSAJS [Oxford Seminars in Advanced Jewish Studies] project - Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies [2017/2018]
*Grant for the workshop 'Linked Data and Syriac Sources' (Amsterdam, 11-13 March, 2018) - the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam]
*Vice-Chancellor’s Award of the University of Cambridge (UK) [2016]
INTERDISCIPLINARY, INTERNATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE
*2018/2019 – Leading the pilot research project ‘Peshitta Pentateuch Geography’ within the larger project ‘LinkSyr: Linking Syriac Data’ organized by The Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) and CLARIAH (www.clariah.nl)
*2018 [29 August – 4 September, Trogir, Croatia] – co-organized the Interdisciplinary Conference 'The Human Person and Human Brain'; one of the keynote speakers of the conference [paper: 'What is 'knowledge' and what is 'person' in Late Antiquity?]; Sponsors of the conference: Ian Ramsey Centre, Oxford; Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw; Centre of Excellence for Integrative Bioethics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciencies, University of Zagreb; Emmy Noether Group for Scientific Theology, Ruhr University Bochum; The Croatian Dominican Province
*2017 - Member of the organizing committee of the conference 'Being Jewish, Writing Greek: Literary Form and Cultural Identity' (University of Cambridge, September 6th-8th 2017)
*2016 – Organized the Study Week and Conference on Rationality and the problem of Evil (Trogir) in collaboration with the Centre of Excellence for Integrative Bioethics ( University of Zagreb) and the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion (University of Oxford)
*2016 – Zagreb, organized the international conference: Do religions have a significance for Europe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWY2p4kuPDk
TEACHING & SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE
*Economics and Management of Organization, Academic Skills (BSc Economics and Business Economics), Economy & Theology, Biblical Hebrew (all levels), Biblical Aramaic (all levels), Latin, Greek, Patristics.
*Visiting Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Zagreb –Greek philosophy in Jewish writings (2015-2016)
*Visiting Lecturer at the Catholic University of Zagreb – Philosophy of History (2015-2016)
*Syriac reading group (Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge, 2017/2018; 2018/2019 – research level
*Teaching Advanced Greek [Summer Biblical Study in Cambridge,
2018 (VTBS)] http://www.vtbs.org.uk/ - mainly Hellenistic and Biblical Greek (LXX)
Supervised more than 20 graduate theses across various disciplines
PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS, TALKS
Edited volumes
Saint Thomas Aquinas in the Contemporary World, ATF Press, expected 2026 (co-edited with Isaac Mutelo)
Synthesis philosophica, 32.1 (2017), pp. 1-245. [Introductory co-authored with Marija Selak]
Recent Papers
“From Caritas to Capital: Thomistic Caritas and the Foundations of Corporate Leadership” in: Mutelo, Isaac, Koralija, Srecko, eds. Saint Thomas Aquinas in the Contemporary World, ATF Press, expected 2026.
“Faith-based Moral Leadership” (with Willem van Peursen, https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/ 10.5465/AMPROC.2025.15862abstract)
“Falsehood and False Prophets in Jeremiah: A View on LXX-Jer and P-Jer,” Vetus Testamentum, 2024, Published online ahead of print: Falsehood and False Prophets in Jeremiah in: Vetus Testamentum - Ahead of print
“Peshitta.” Database of Religious History (DRH), University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Web Publication (42 pages), 16 December 2022.
“Targums.” Database of Religious History (DRH), University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Web Publication (52 pages), 4 August 2022.
“παράδεισος as/and κῆπος.” In The Legacy of Soisalon-Soininen: Towards a Syntax of Septuagint Greek (ed. T. Kauhanen), DSI: Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020, pp. 207- 222.
“Nestorian Christianity.” Database of Religious History (DRH), University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Web Publication (72 pages), 15 August 2020.
“Bog – milosrdni pedagog kod sv. Efrema Sirijskog u kontekstu sirijske teološke tradicije,”
Vrhbosnensia 21.2 (2017), pp. 341-363.
“Quo vadis critica?” in Filozofija i teologija u kontekstu znanstveno-tehničke civilizacije (ed. J.Oslić, A. Ćubelić, and N. Malović; Zagreb: Kršćanska sadašnjost, 2016), pp. 19-35
“Poslanje propovijedanja,” Diacovensia 23.4 (2015), pp. 547-552.
“Međureligijski dijalog - put do izgradnje mira,” in Religije i nasilje (ed. M. Nikić, M. Marjanović; Zagreb: FTI, 2015), pp. 133-147.
“Mudroslovna skicoznost u Prop 1,4-11,” in Veritas vitae et doctrinae. U potrazi za istinom o čovjeku i Bogu. Zbornik u čast Hrvoja Lasića (ed. A. Gavrić, I. Šestak, Zagreb: FTI, 2012), pp. 220-233.
Reviews
Papers & Symposia proposals for the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Copenhagen, 2025; Divisions: Organization and Management Theory; Management, Spirituality, and Religion
Hartenstein, Fr., Die bleibende Bedeutung des Alten Testaments. Studien zur Relevanz des ersten Kanonteils für Theologie und Kirche (Biblisch-Theologische Studien, 165; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017), pp. Viii + 310. [Society for Old Testament Study, Book List, London: SAGE Publications, 2018, p. 185]
Graham, C. A., The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22-24 (The Bible in Ancient Christianity, 12; Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. xiv + 249. [Society for Old Testament Study, Book List, London: SAGE Publications, 2018, 135-136]
Jurič, S., Biser biblijske mudrosti. Mudrost lijepa govora u Knjizi Sirahovoj, (Glas Koncila:Zagreb, 2010), pp. 330. in: Nova prisutnost 10.1 (2012).
Presentations, Lectures & Talks
2025:
“Leadership Loneliness: Context and Decision-Making Drive AI Companionship as a Crisis Consultation Tool” (with John D. Rudnick and Lisa J. Knowles), 27th ILA Global Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 15-18 October, 2025.
“Reception of ‘Charisma’ in the Early Arabic Translations of the New Testament”, ISLP- IOSOT, Berlin, 11-15 August, 2025.
“Moral Authority and Corporate Leadership: Navigate Ethical Decision-Making in Uncertain Times” Annual Governance Agora Workshop, Philosophies of Corporate Governance and Life: A Contested Terrain of Meanings, VU Amsterdam, 19-20 June, 2025.
“Leadership Loneliness: Context and Decision-Making Drive AI Companionship as a Crisis Consultation Tool” (The Influence of Digitalisation on Work, Prosperity and Entrepreneurship | Erasmus University Rotterdam), 7 March, 2025.
2024:
“Earthly and Divine Authority. Leadership Lexemes in the Bible: A Historical and Multilingual Perspective,” European Academy of Religion Conference, Palermo, Italy, 20-24 May, 2024. “Charismatic Performance, Memory, and Imagination as a Basis for Inclusive Organizational Communities,” Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2 May, 2024.
“Methodological Challenges in Interdisciplinary Research,” Faculty of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 19 April, 2024.
“Faith-based Moral Leadership,” Center for L.I.F.E. (Leading the Integration of Faith and Entrepreneurship), USA, 12 April, 2024 (online).
“What Defines Charisma, and Who Embodies Charisma? A Study of Its Application Within the Croatian Context,” Macquarie University, Australia, 10 February, 2024.
2023:
“Kings and Prophets in the Bible and the Qur’an,” Institut dominicain d’études orientales, Cairo, Egypt, 6 October, 2023.
“Religious Narratives and Beliefs, Moral Leadership and Organization,” Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium Rhodes, Greece, 3-6 May, 2023.
“The Relationship Between Language Studies, Semantics, Organizational Behavior, and Business Ethics,” Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Croatia, 11 April, 2023. “Moral Leadership Between Language and Meaning,” Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy (ACERP2023), Tokyo, Japan, 31 March - 3 April, 2023 (online).
“Prophète entre loi et message dans les narratives bibliques de l'Ancien Testament - une analyse sémantique,” Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France, June, 2023.
2022:
“Moral Leadership project,” ETCBC, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, 16 November, 2022. “Holy Language and Holy Scripture,” International Conference Des Lettres isolées à la science des lettres, Erbil, Iraq, 5 November, 2022.
“The Targum and the Peshitta Version of the Book of Judges,” Warsaw KWU, 31 May, 2022.
2021:
“Manuscript – More than a Translation,” Dominicans in Croatia conference, Dubrovnik, 24-25 September, 2021.
2018:
“Historical and Methodological Considerations for Making Syriac Lexica,” International Syriac Language Project (SBL-Conference), Denver, Colorado, USA, 17-20 November, 2018.
“Object Marker(s) in Hebrew - Syriac Language Contact” Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew unit (SBL-Conference), Denver, Colorado, USA 17-20 November, 2018.
“What is 'Knowledge' and What is 'Person' in Late Antiquity?” Conference 'The Human Brain and the Human Person', Trogir, Croatia, September, 2018.
“Lexical Indices of Audience in Genesis and Proverbs” Conference 'Echoes of Audience in Ancient Writing', Heythrop College, London, 17 August, 2018.
“Targum and Peshitta: The Lexeme špr,” 9th International Meeting of the International Organization for Targum Studies, University College London, 9-11 July, 2018.
“Inner-Syriac Developments in the Peshitta: Lexicographical Issues,” International Conference 'The Future of Syriac Studies & The Legacy of Sebastian Brock', Sigtuna, Sweden, 12-15 June, 2018.
“Semantics of Interaction Between Historical Knowledge and Spirituality,” co-hosted by the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, and the Center for Thought of John Paul II, Warsaw, 26 March, 2018.
“How Do We Read Ancient Texts?” St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, UK, 24 February, 2018.
2017:
“Doctrine and Language: In the Quest for Meaning” Woolf Institute, Cambridge, 9 November 2017.
“Reception of yt (Gn 1:1) in the Syriac tradition,” OT/HB Oxbridge Conference, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge, 28 April 2017.
“Philo, Life of Moses,” Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, 23 February, 2017.
2016:
“Textual Issues in Gn 22 - Comparative Analysis of Syriac, Greek and Hebrew,” Graduate OT Seminar, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge, 16 November, 2016.
“Jezik- učitelj razmišljanja?” [TED talk], Dubrovnik, Croatia, 28 October, 2016.
2015:
“Saint Ephrem’s reading of Genesis,” Blackfriars, Oxford. “Humanities in Front of Challenges” Catholic University, Zagreb.
“Jewish Concepts in Christian Tradition,” Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb.
2014:
“Why Classical Education in the Modern World?” Faculty of Teacher Education, Zagreb, April, 2014.
“Literacy and Translation Techniques,” Faculty of Humanities, Zagreb, April, 2014. “Interreligious Dialogue,” International JRD Conference, Surabaya, Indonesia, 11-16, August, 2014.
LANGUAGES
Hyperpolyglot