Vesna Trifunović
Academic title: PhD
Research position: Research Associate
Field of research: аnthropology of medicine and public health, anthropology of folklore, anthropology of popular culture.
Email: vesnita@eunet.rs
Education/Qualifications
2016 Acquired the position of Research Associate at the Institute of Ethnography of SASA
2015 Completed doctoral studies in Ethnology and Anthropology at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
2007 Completed master`s studies in Ethnology and Anthropology at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
2006 Graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade with a degree in Ethnology and Anthropology
Affiliations
2009 The Institute of Ethnography of SASA
Projects
2018 Tailoring Immunization Program (TIP) in Serbia, The World Health Organization, Institute of Public Health of Serbia "Dr Milan Jovanović Batut"
2011/2019 Cultural Heritage and Identity (MPNT RS 177026), the Institute of Ethnography of SASA
2011/2019 Interdisciplinary Research of Serbian Cultural and Linguistic Heritage. Creation of Multimedial Internet Portal "The Lexicon of Serbian Culture" (МПНТ РС 47016), the Institute of Ethnography of SASA
2007/2010 Anthropological Research of Communication in Contemporary Serbia (МПНТ РС 147021), the Institute of Ethnography of SASA
International conferences, scientific conferences and study visits
2022 The Politics of Technoscientific Futures, European Association for the Study of Science & Technology, Madrid, Spain
2019 Vaccines and State: The legacy of State Vaccines Institutions, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2019 IUAES 2019 Inter-Congress „World Solidarities”, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
2019 “Retrospectives and Perspectives of Ethnology and Anthropology” Open-air museum „Old Village“ Sirogojno, Serbia
2017 Symposium “Building Trust, Managing Risk: Vaccine Confidence and HPV Vaccination”, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the United Kingdom
2017 8th Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS) Annual Meeting: Medical Anthropology Beyond Medical Borders, University of Edinburgh, the United Kingdom
2016 7th Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS) Annual Meeting: Intergenerations, temporalities and medical anthropology, The Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal
2015 Symposium “Medical Anthropology Switzerland” (MAS), Universität Basel, Switzerland
2012 12th EASA Biennial conference: Uncertainty and Disquiet, Université Paris Nanterre, France
2011 “Cultures and Borders” City Museum Vršac, Serbia
2011 6th InASEA conference: Southeast European (Post)Modernities, Universität Regensburg, Germany
2010 Cultural Space and Identity in a Post-Socialist Context, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2009 “Fieldwork Research (challenges – results – application)” Open-air museum „Old Village“ Sirogojno, Serbia
2007 “Images of Culture – Then and Now” The National Museum of Kruševac, Serbia
Miscellaneous
2022/2024 Consultant, WHO Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural and Cultural Insights (BCI), the World Health Organization
Monograph
Likovi domaćih viceva: socijalni tipovi lude u savremenim vicevima, Srpski genealoški centar, knj. 43, Beograd 2009.
Articles
Trifunović, Vesna. “Vaccine Hesitancy in Western and Eastern Europe: The Significance of Contextual Influences”. Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA LXX (3), 2022. 153-173.
Trifunović, Vesna. Katrine Bach Habersaat, Darija Kisić Tepavčević, Verica Jovanović, Milena Kanazir, Goranka Lončarević & Cath Jackson. “Understanding vaccination communication between health workers and parents: a Tailoring Immunization Programmes (TIP) qualitative study in Serbia”. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics 18 (1), 2022.
Trifunović, Vesna. “Vaccine Production in Serbia: Political and Socio-Cultural Determinants in Historical Perspective”. In: Stuart Blume, Baptiste Baylac-Paouly (eds.) Immunization and States: The Politics of Making Vaccines. 2022. New York, Routledge: 176 – 198.
Trifunović, Vesna. Ivan Đorđević. “Culture of the “New Normal” – Terminological Meaning(s) and Use(s)”. Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA: Culture of the “New Normal”. Local and Global Perspectives LXIX (3), 2021. 519-530.
Trifunović, Vesna. “Framing Vaccination in Post-Socialist Serbia: An Anthropological Perspective”. Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 14 (2), 2019. 507-529.
Trifunović, Vesna. “Interdisciplinary Research – Anthropology in Collaboration with Other Disciplines”. Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA: Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Ethnology and Anthropology LXVI (2), 2018. 239-244.
Trifunović, Vesna. “Temporality and Discontinuity as Aspects of Smallpox Outbreak in Yugoslavia”. Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU LXV (1), 2017. 127-145.
Trifunović, Vesna. "Manifestations of Humour in Serbian Folklore Material: The Example of Šala". Studia Fennica Folkloristica no. 22, 2016. 365-384.
Trifunović, Vesna. "Temporality and Discontinuity as Aspects of Smallpox Outbreak in Yugoslavia". Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA 65, no. 1, 2017. 127-145.
Trifunović, Vesna. "Interdisciplinary Research: Anthropology in Partnership with Other Disciplines". Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA 66, no. 2, 2018. 239-244.
Trifunović, Vesna. "Framing Vaccination in Post-Socialist Serbia: An Anthropological Perspective". Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology 14, no 2, 2019. 507-529.
Trifunović, Vesna and Miloš Rašić. "Urbani folklor". U: Etnologija i antropologija: 70 izabranih pojmova. Etnografski institut SANU i Službeni glasnik. Beograd. 2017. 411-415.
Trifunović, Vesna. "Folk Medicine". In Ethnology and Anthropology: 70 selected terms. The Ethnographic institute SASA and The Official Gazette. Belgrade. 2017. 237-243.
Trifunović, Vesna. "Humor". U: Etnologija i antropologija: 70 izabranih pojmova. Etnografski institut SANU i Službeni glasnik. Beograd. 2017. 441-445.
Trifunović, Vesna. "Magija". U: Etnologija i antropologija: 70 izabranih pojmova. Etnografski institut SANU i Službeni glasnik. Beograd. 2017. 163-169.
Formirаnje socijаlnih tipovа u teoriji Orinа Klаpа, Glаsnik Etnogrаfskog institutа SANU IV, sveskа 1, 2007, 125-138.
Socijalni tipovi Heroja, Nitkova i Lude u teoriji Orina Klapa, Etnoantropološki problemi, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2007, 109-135.
Tehnike humora po Arturu Asi Bergeru, Etnoantropološki problemi, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2007, 221-249.
Odnos horora i humora: primer filmova „Hostel“ i „Eurotrip“, Etnoantropološki
problemi, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2008,103-121.
Tehnike humorа i teorijа o socijаlnim tipovimа: teorijsko-metodološki okvir zа аnаlizu vicevа kаo humorističkog folklornog mаterijаlа, U: Zoricа Divаc (ur), Kulturne pаrаlele: svаkodnevnа kulturа u postsocijаlističkom periodu, Etnogrаfski institut SANU, zbornik 25, 2008, 243-258.
Tipizаcijа privаtnikа u periodu prve trаnzicije: primer domаćih serijа, Glаsnik Etnogrаfskog Institutа SANU LVII, sveskа 1, 2009,135-146.
Konceptualizacija gubitnika i dobitnika tranzicije u popularnoj kulturi, Etnoantropološki problemi, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2009, 107-121.
Internet kаo teren: primer sаkupljаnjа folklorne grаđe, Glаsnik etnogrаfskog Institutа SANU LVIII, sveskа 1, 2010, 157-168.
Šala: jedna (ne)bitna humoristička forma, Etnoantropološki problemi no. 2 (6), 2011, 319-332.
Postsocijаlističkа trаnsformаcijа i novi oblici identifikаcije u društvu Srbije, Glаsnik Etnogrаfskog institutа SANU LIX(2), 2011, 149-159.
Aspekti posmаtrаnjа i identifikаcije gubitnikа i dobitnikа trаnzicije u društvu Srbije, Glаsnik etnogrаfskog institutа SANU LX2, 2012, 125-138.
Moć nаrаtivа: uticаj pričа o izlečenju putem nekonvencionаlne medicine. Etnoаntropološki problemi, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2012, 979-998.
Transition as a Winning or a Losing Game: Social Conceptualizations and Identifications in Postsocialist Serbia. U: Klaus Roth, Jennifer Cash, Jutta Lauth Bacas (eds.). Southeast European (Post)Modernities, Part 2: Changing Forms of Identity, Religiosity, Law and Labour. Ethnologia Balkanica 16, InASEA, 2012, 333- 351.
Trаnzicijski veltšmerc: nаrаtivizаcijа iskustvа mlаdih pri trаženju poslа i zаposlenju u kontekstu post-socijаlističke trаnsformаcije, Glаsnik etnogrаfskog institutа SANU LX2, 2012, 147-161.
Reviews
Trifunović, Vesna. "Post-Soviet health care: Transformation from a socialist to a neoliberal system?". Medicine Anthropology Theory 3, no. 3 (2016). 158-169.
Ivan Kovačević, Antropologija tranzicije, Etnološka biblioteka, Knjiga 28, Srpski genealoški centar, Beograd, 2007, 166 str. U: Etnoantropološki problemi, ISSN 0353-1589. UDK 574(05) Vol. 2, No. 1, 2007. 155-159. UDK 398.2(497.11)
Izlazak nove serije časopisa Etnoantropološki problemi na Filozofskom fakultetu u Beogradu, U: Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU LV, sveska 2, 2007: 218 – 220.
Prvi broj časopisa Centra za etnološka i antropološka istraživanja: Antropologija – Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU LV, sveska 2, 2007: 220 – 221.
O srpskom političkom mitu: obnavljanje klasičnih obrazaca: Dragana Antonijević, Karađorđe i Miloš: Između istorije i predanja, Etnološka biblioteka, knj. 32, Srpski genealoški centar, Beograd, 2007; Karađorđe i Miloš: Mit i politika, Etnološka biblioteka, knj. 33, Srpski genealoški centar, Beograd, 2007. u: Vukova zadužbina, 2008.
Međunarodni naučni skup “Terenska istraživanja (izazovi – rezultati – primena) Sirogojno 31. avgust – 3 septembar 2009. U: Etnološko-antropološke sveske, ISSN 1821-3723, UDK 39 br. 13, (n.s.) 2, 2009. 133-134.
Milina Ivanović – Barišić, Kalendarski praznici i običaji u podavalskim selima, Beograd: Etnografski institut SANU, 2007. (Beograd: Akademska izdanja), knj. 59, U: Glasnik Etnografskog institute SANU LVII, sveska 1, 2009.
Izlazak zbornika u čast Kloda Levi-Strosa “Strukturalna antropologija danas”, U: Etnoantropološki problemi, ISSN 0353-1589. 2010.
Izazovi vizuelne antropologije: istorija Balkana u slikama, Osvrt na FWF Visualising family, gender relations and the body: The Balkans approx. 1860-1950. U: Glasnik Etnografskog instituta LIX, 2011.
Manifestacije moći kroz prizmu muzeja: Ljiljana Gavrilović. Muzeji i granice moći. 2011. Beograd: XX vek, Etnoantropološki problemi, ISSN 0353-1589, sveska 4, 2011.