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Our team includes ethnologists, anthropologists, economists, demographers, and geographers from various institutional backgrounds whose shared interest in island research has brought them together for this project. Our varied approaches and insights have been beneficial to discussions about the island topics and have aided us in crossing the boundaries of our disciplines. This competitive research project, A Network of Island Temporalities: Multidisciplinary Approach to Temporalities on Dugi otok and Kornati islands, is funded by the University of Zadar in the period of 2021-2023.
Tomislav OROZ
Tomislav Oroz is an associate professor at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Zadar. He holds a MA degree in ethnology, cultural anthropology, and history from the University of Zagreb, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in ethnology and cultural anthropology. He now teaches anthropology and cultural topics to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Zadar (Anthropology of the Mediterranean, Ethnocultural Processes in Southeastern Europe, Cultures of Memory and Experiences of Temporality). His research interests are island studies and Balkan studies, with a specific emphasis on the culture and politics of memory. After several years of researching postsocialist memory cultures in South-Eastern Europe, his current research focuses on the problems of island temporalities in Eastern Adriatic and their entanglement with discourses of late modernity. He is the Deputy Head of Department of Ethnology and Anthropology as well as PI on the University of Zadar competitive research project, "A Network of Island Temporalities: Multidisciplinary Research of Temporality on Islands of Dugi otok and Kornati". His publications include the monograph Gdje si bio 1573? Lica i naličja Matije Gupca u praksma sjećanja [Where were you in 1573? Faces and Facets of Matija Gubec in Memory Practices] (2018), for which he won an award from the Croatian Ethnological Society in 2018. In 2019 he co-edited the book Liber monstrorum balcanorum: čudovišni svijet europske margine [Liber monstrorum balcanorum: monstrous world of European periphery] with Miranda Levanat-Peričić.
Sonja PODGORELEC
Sonja Podgorelec is Scientific Adviser, employed at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies in Zagreb. As a collaborator in several research projects she has been concerned with the sociological aspects of life and health of migrant women, children in migration and return, individual orientations and socio-cultural patterns of youth behaviour, sociological (socio-gerontological) aspects of ageing of the Croatian population (particularly population ageing on the islands) and the quality of life. She has published five books, independently or in co-authorship, among which especially important are (in Croatian): Growing old on an island: the quality of life of elderly populations on Croatian islands (2008) and Cities sunk the islands – changes in small island communities (co-author Sanja Klempić Bogadi, 2013) as well as dozens of scientific and professional papers.
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Anica ČUKA
Anica Čuka is associate professor at the Department of Geography, University of Zadar where she gives lectures on Agricultural and Rural Geography, Regional geography of Australia, Oceania and Antarctica, Geography of Croatian Islands and Croatian diaspora. She is specialized in island studies. Her PhD thesis was entitled: Transformation of Dugi otok island landscape as a result of contemporary sociogeographic processes. She published more than 30 scientific papers that often deal with islands: demographic trends on Croatian islands, development and changes in islands' landscapes, connection of islands and mainland, Zadar urban archipelago – historical and contemporary relations between islands and mainland urban center, spreading of phylloxera disease on islands and its influence on socio-economic changes and trends. She collaborated on various scientific projects and at the moment she is working on the project financed by the University of Zadar, dealing with island temporality. She has participated at numerous scientific congresses often with island topics.
Nenad STARC
Nenad Starc is emeritus at the Institute of Economics in Zagreb. After retirement he deals with regional and environmental economics and strategic planning. Studied in Zagreb, Berkeley, USA and Aberdeen, UK. For the last fifteen years he has been dealing mostly with islands. He also works as a consultant in preparation and evaluation of strategic development documents. Since 2000 he has occasionally taught at the universities of Zagreb, Split, Pula and Rijeka. He publishes in domestic and foreign journals. He has presented at conferences on island development on the Croatian islands, as well as in France, Japan, Greece, Australia, Denmark, Malta and the Azores, Canary, Balearic, Dutch and Australian islands. He is a member of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) and the International Small Islands Studies Association (ISISA) as well as of the Croatian Association Anatomy of Islands. Since 2018, he has been a member of the ISISA Executive Committee.
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Senka BOŽIĆ VRBANČIĆ
Senka Božić-Vrbančić is employed as a Professor in Anthropology at the University of Zadar, Croatia. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has worked at the University of Melbourne, Australia (McArthur Research Fellowship 2007-2010), Center for Sociology and Cultural Studies in Lviv, Ukraine and Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia. Her work spans the fields of anthropology, cultural and visual studies with an emphasis on the politics of culture and affective components of belonging (class/ gender/ ethnicity/ race). She is the author of two books Tarara: Croatians and Maori in New Zealand - memory, belonging, identity (Otago University Press, 2008, 2018) and Hitchcockian gaze: a paranoid reading of contemporary culture (Jesenski & Turk, 2017). She is currently finishing a book on the precariousness as a social condition based on an ethnographic research of everyday and the structures of feeling associated with precarious lifeworlds in Croatia.
Sanja KLEMPIĆ BOGADI
Sanja Klempić Bogadi is a Scientific Adviser, employed at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies in Zagreb since 2000. She is a head of Department for Migration and Demographic Research. She earned her degree, her M.S. and her PhD at the Department of Geography at the Faculty of Science of the University of Zagreb. From 2013 to 2020, she was Editor in Chief of the journal Migracijske i etničke teme/Migration and Ethnic Themes. In the focus of her research interests are migration, ageing, spatial aspects of demographic processes. quality of life and geography of islands.
Jadran KALE
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Jadran Kale (1965) is associate Professor at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Zadar, Croatia. Graduated in 1989 with ethnocartographical analysis “Asterism of Pleiades in Folk Beliefs”, finished M.A. thesis “Complex stone huts buildings at the Eastern Adriatics” in 1996, and Ph. D. Thesis “Folk Costumes and Historical Clothing Culture in North Dalmatia” in 2010, all at the University of Zagreb. Curator of Ethnographic Department at the City Museum of Šibenik since 1989. Beginning in 1986, he started first detailed ethnographic and architectural documentation of the most complex drystone-walled and corbelled buildings in Croatia, inititating their registration as heritage in 1996, achieving preliminary registration in 1999 and permanent registration of first three cultural goods of its kind in 2008. Owner of the internet domain "suhozid.hr", cooperatively published as an open public list of associated landscape phenomena. Published books: "Spacing Culture" about ethnographies of cognitive and cultural spaces, "Clothing a Nation" with an analysis of a folk costume genesis. Closely interested in researching heritage regimes, collective creativities and commons. Lives in Šibenik.
Petra VALOVIČIĆ
Petra Valovičić completed in 2016 a graduate single-subject university study of cultural heritage and tourism, and in 2011 an undergraduate double-subject study of ethnology and anthropology and sociology at the University of Zadar. During her graduate studies, she founded Antropop - an association of anthropologists and ethnologists. She organized a number of activities, mainly in the field of visual culture. She is the co-author of the monograph of KUD Sv. Roko from Sv. Filip i Jakov titled KUD Sv. Roko: Osluhni nutarnje zvono / Listen to the inner bell (ed. Katica Burić Ćenan), as well as the author of the Ethnographic Collection installation in Kolan on the island of Pag. In 2020, she began to work as an assistant on the Croatian Science Foundation’s project 'Junior researchers career development project – Education of novice Doctors of Science' at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Zadar and enrolled in postgraduate studies of Humanities at the University of Zadar, in the field of ethnology and anthropology. Her areas of interest are anthropology of pilgrimage, cultural heritage, insularity and anthropology of art.
