Lazar Barać

Academic title: master

Research position: Research Assistant

migration studies, folk culture, Balkanism, masculinity, music studies, Orthodoxy and post-socialism, music and dance folklore, cultural heritage

2024 – Research Assistant at the Institute of Ethnography SASA
2023 – enrolled at doctoral studies in Ethnology and Anthropology at Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade
2023 – completed master`s studies at Department of Ethnology and Anthropology at Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade
2022 – graduated at Department of Ethnology and Anthropology at Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade
2018 - completed basic vocational studies at CVSTE in Kikinda

2018 - "Dance for everyone - we are all the same" - Nebograd
2022 - "Rapid Assessment of the Abuse of Child Labor on the Streets in Serbia" - International Labor Organization and „SeConS“ Development Initiative Group
2023 - "Big Small Businesses" - USAID
2023/2024 - "Transnational Entrepreneurs" - Ethnological and Anthropological Association of Serbia

2021 - "How we see Islam" - Days of Oriental Studies at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade
2022 - "Post/Yugoslavian guestworkers" - Center for Yugoslav Studies
2023 - lecture „Construction of the cultural identity of Serbian labor migrants in Vicenza“ - DC Krov

The best student – generation 2015/2016 at CVSTE in Kikinda
The best student – generaton 2018/2019 – at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology
Annual Award for the Best Student Final Thesis (bachelor) at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology in the academic 2021/2022 (Extracomunitarians, Slavs and Serbs: Conceptualization and Contextualization of the Cultural Identity of Serbian Labor Migrants in the Italian Province of Vicenza – mentor: PhD Professor Dragana Antonijević)
Annual Award for the Best Student Final Thesis (master) at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology in the academic 2022/2023 (Trap, God, Trap, Folk: the Reception of the Balkan Trap Among the Second Generation of Serbian extracommunitarians in Vicenza – mentor: PhD Professor Dragana Antonijević)

Barać, Lazar. 2022a. „Extracomunitari al modo serbo: konceptualizacija termina srpski ekstrakomunitari kao imenitelja srpskih radnih migranata u italijanskoj pokrajini Vićenca“. Etnološko-antropološke sveske 33 (22): 81-96.
Barać, Lazar. 2022b. „Traditional Believers as the Mainstay of the Serbian Orthodox Church’s Political Power in Postsocialist Serbia“. Insights 1: 8-12.
Barać, Lazar. 2023. „Migracije, nacije, imaginacije: klubovi kao mikrokosmos zajednice srpskih gastarbajtera u Beču“ povodom knjige Zamišljena domovina. Klubovi, identitet i integracija srpskih gastarbajtera u Beču Miloša Rašića, Beograd 2022, Etnografski institut SANU, str. 232. Etnološko-antropološke sveske 34 (23): 139-142.