Later Years To Present
Supek visited and lectured at numerous foreign universities. He retired in 1985, but ever since continued his humanist work. He founded a citizen association, Alijansa za treću Hrvatsku (Alliance for the third Croatia). He was a critic of globalisation and a proponent of the global justice movement. In 2002 he was elected an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Supek died on March 5, 2007, in his home in Zagreb, after a long illness.
In 2007, shortly after his death, the "X. gimnazija" (10th Gymnasium) grammar school in Croatia's capital Zagreb was renamed in his honor to X. Gimnazija "Ivan Supek". He is among 24 famous Croats to be inducted in the Croatian Walk Of Fame.
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