Katarina Mitrović Ražnatović

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Katarina Mitrović Ražnatović

Katarina Mitrović Ražnatović

Academic title: PhD

Research position: Research Associate

Research interests: ethnology and anthropology of the world, anthropology of childhood and youth, urban anthropology, youth studies, anthropology of migration.

Email: katarina.mitrovic@ei.sanu.ac.rs

Education / Qualifications

2021 Acquired the position of Research Associate (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)

2021 Completed doctoral studies at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

2018 Acquired the position of Research Assistant (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)

2016 Completed master’s studies at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

2015 Graduated at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Affiliationst

2022 Institute of Ethnography of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

2018 - 2021 Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

2016-2018 Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Projects

2022-2023 Current trends in Social and Cultural Anthropology (postdoctoral project; University of Pardubice, Czech Republic)

2020 The Western Balkans as “double transit” room: Solidarities, boundary drawings and boundary transgressions between migrants and local inhabitants on their way to the EU (DAAD project)

2018-2019 Anthropological Study of Serbia - from Cultural Heritage to Modern Society (MPNTR 177035)

2017-2018 Identity Policies of European Union: Adaptation and Application in the Republic of Serbia (MPNTR 177017)

2017 Shared Cities: Creative Momentum (international project)

Conferences, workshops and study visits

2022-2023 Current trends in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

2022 Sacred Ground: Place and Space in Mythology and Religion; International Association for Comparative Mythology, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia

2022 Three decades of transition in Serbia: Sociological and Anthropological perspectives; Center for Sociological and Anthropological Research, Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia

2022 Nationalism, Memory and Democratic Decay in the New EU Member States and Candidate Countries; Jean Monnet Project “We, the People of the United Europe: Reflections on the European State of Mind” (University of Udine - Department of Legal Studies) and Jean Monnet Module “Anthropology of the European Union” (University of Belgrade - Faculty of Philosophy)

2021 Balkan Express- Neighbors and neighborhood in the Balkans; Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Czech Association for Slavic, Balkan and Byzantine Studies, Prague, Czech Republic

2021 Beyond Victimhood and Stigmatization: Trauma, Ruptured Memories and Agency in the Context of Global Migration; CeMig (Centre for Global Migration Studies), Adam von Trott Foundation and the University of Göttingen, Germany

2020 The Countries of Former Yugoslavia as ’Double Transit’; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia

2019 The Concept of Mimesis in Interdisciplinary Perspective, Somló Bódog Association Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary

2019 Balkan Express- Living together – Tolerance, Coexistence, Reconciliation; Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences with the support of the Institute of International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

2019 Erasmus+ exchange; Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens, Greece)

2018 Society, Science, Progress: Lewis Henry Morgan (1818- 1881); University of Belgrade, COTA (Commission on Theoretical Anthropology, IUAES) and HoAn (History of Anthropology Network, EASA), Belgrade, Sebia

2018 Giving Voice? Facilitating Social and Community Resilience; SIEF International Summer School, Portsoy, Scotland, UK

2014-2015 Global UGRAD exchange program; University of Wyoming (Laramie, USA)

Miscellaneous

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures – Book Reviews Editor (2021- )

Articles

  • 2022.“Anthropological research on coming of age and ’extended youth’: Youth ’well-spent’“. Stanovništvo 60 (2): 89-106. (in Serbian)
  • 2022. “Moving While Waiting for the Future: Mobility and Education in Šid, Serbia”. Journal of Borderlands Studies: 1-18. (Jovanović, Teodora, Katarina Mitrović and Ildiko Erdei)
  • 2021. “Work from Home: New Approaches to Living Spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic”. In COVID-19 in Serbia ’20, ed. Bojan Žikić, 189-202. University of Belgrade: Faculty of Philosophy. (in Serbian)
  • 2021. “Together Alone: Opportunities and Limitations of Mature Coresidency during the COVID-19 Pandemic“. Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA 69 (3): 641-656. (in Serbian)
  • 2021. “Good Parenting in Post-socialist Serbia: Too Much Parental Care or Too Many Children’s Needs? Anthropological Reflections“. Anthropology 21 (1): 29-46. (Mitrović, Katarina M. and Marija Brujić)
  • 2021. „Anthropology of Space in the Context of ’Extended Youth’ Phenomenon Research“. Anthropology 21 (1): 87-112. (in Serbian)
  • 2021. “Introduction to the Anthropology of Photography in Serbia”. Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA 69 (3): 151-171. (Naumović, Slobodan, Marija Brujić and Katarina M. Mitrović; in Serbian)
  • 2018. “’Keepers of the Park’: Participatory Projecting and Anthropological Rethinking of Plateau in Mileševska Street, Belgrade”. Papers in Ethnology and Anthropology 18 (29): 41-60. (Mitrović, Katarina M. and Ana Dajić; in Serbian)
  • 2018. “Srebrica Knežević: Academic and Pedagogical Framework in Ethnology and Anthropology”. Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA 66 (1): 73-88. (in Serbian)
  • 2017. “International Student Exchange between Serbia and North America: Research Context”. Bulletin of the Ethnographic Museum 81: 59-79. (in Serbian)

Conference and workshop presentations

  • 2022. “Türbe: The Blessing of the Sacred Sites”. Conference: Sacred Ground: Place and Space in Mythology and Religion; International Association for Comparative Mythology, Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia, p. 49, Belgrade, Serbia: 7-11.6.2022.
  • 2022. “Age-Appropriate: ‘Extended Youth’ Well-Spent”. Conference: Three decades of transition in Serbia: Sociological and Anthropological perspectives; Center for Sociological and Anthropological Research, Institute of Social Sciences, pp. 30-31, Belgrade, Serbia: 1.6.2022.
  • 2022. “From diaspora with love: Preliminary remarks on cultural Europeanisation of Serbia” (Brujić, Marija and Katarina M. Mitrović). International Workshop: Nationalism, Memory and Democratic Decay in the New EU Member States and Candidate Countries; Jean Monnet Project “We, the People of the United Europe: Reflections on the European State of Mind” (University of Udine - Department of Legal Studies) and Jean Monnet Module “Anthropology of the European Union” (University of Belgrade - Faculty of Philosophy); 23-25.2.2022.
  • 2021. “Living with parents: neighborhood as a reason to stay”. Conference: Balkan Express- Neighbors and neighborhood in the Balkans; Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Czech Association for Slavic, Balkan and Byzantine Studies, p. 13, Prague, Czech Republic, 12-13.11.2021.
  • 2021. “(Re)living the trauma of migration“. Workshop: Beyond Victimhood and Stigmatization: Trauma, Ruptured Memories and Agency in the Context of Global Migration; CeMig (Centre for Global Migration Studies), Adam von Trott Foundation and the University of Göttingen, Germany, 4-5.3.2021.
  • 2020. “Šid borderscapes: memories, experiences and interpretations of borders and refugee movements“ (Erdei, Ildiko, Marta Stojić Mitrović, Teodora Jovanović and Katarina M. Mitrović). Workshop: The Countries of Former Yugoslavia as ’Double Transit’; Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia, 21-22.8.2020.
  • 2019. “Native Americans and Authenticity”. Conference: The Concept of Mimesis in Interdisciplinary Perspective, Somló Bódog Association Hungarian National Museum, pp. 43 - 44, Budapest, Hungary, 1.4 2019.
  • 2019. “Coexistence and Postponed Adulthood: Parents as the Best Roommates”. Conference: Balkan Express- Living together – Tolerance, Coexistence, Reconciliation; Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences with the support of the Institute of International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague, p. 19, Prague, 8.-9.11.2019.
  • 2018. ”Education System and Identity of Native Americans” (abstract). Conference: Society, Science, Progress: Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881), University of Belgrade, COTA and HoAn, p.17, Belgrade, 30.11.2018.
  • 2018. “Keepers of the Park (Čuvari parka): participatory project and anthropological mapping“. SIEF International Summer School: Giving Voice? Facilitating Social and Community Resilience; Portsoy, Scotland, UK, 22-29.6.2018.

Miscellaneous

  • 2021. The Phenomenon of ‘Extended Youth’ in Belgrade: Ethnological and Anthropological Analysis. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade (PhD Thesis, in Serbian)
  • 2018. Conference Proceedings Society, Science, Progress: Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881). Belgrade: Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy. (eds. Mitrović, Katarina M. and Jelena Ćuković)