Sonja Žakula

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Sonja Žakula

Sonja Žakula

Akademska titula: doktor nauka

Naučno zvanje: Naučni saradnik

Polja istraživanja: antropologija ljudsko-životinjskih odnosa, antropologija interneta, antropologija nauke, studije panka.

Mejl: zakula.sonja@gmail.com

Sonja Žakula je rođena 1985. godine u Beogradu gde je završila osnovnu školu i Filološku gimnaziju (odeljenje za klasične jezike). Diplomirala je 2009. godine na Odeljenju za etnologiju i antropologiju Filozofskog fakulteta u Beogradu, a potom je na istom odeljenju 2010. godine odbranila master tezu pod nazivom „Naučno kreiranje kulturnih predstava o životinjama“. Rad je osvojio nagradu odeljenja za najbolji master rad u 2010. godini. Na istom odeljenju je doktorirala 2017. godine, sa doktorskom disertacijom „Zoološki vrtovi u Srbiji u antropološkoj perspektivi“.

Od 2004. do 2009. godine je bila angažovana kao mlađa odnosno studentkinja saradnica na seminaru Etnologije/Socio-kulturne antropologije/Antropologije u Istraživačkoj Stanici Petnica, a 2009. godine, po diplomiranju postaje stručna saradnica i zamenica rukovoditeljke seminara. Od 2013. do kraja 2017. godine rukovodila je seminarom Antropologije u IS Petnica.

Tokom 2009. godine je bila angažovana kao istraživačica-saradnica na projektu „Upravljanje visokim obrazovanjem u Srbiji“, koji je realizovao Centar za obrazovne politike iz Beograda.

Od 2011. godine je angažovana kao istraživačica na projektu Kulturno nasleđe i identitet Etnografskog instituta SANU, prvo kao pripravnica, potom kao istraživačica saradnica, a od 2018. godine kao naučna saradnica.

Osnovne oblasti njenog interesovanja su: antropologija ljudsko-životinjskih odnosa, antropologija interneta i virtuelnih svetova, antropologija materijalne kulture i studije panka.

U školskoj 2017/2018. godini pohađala je, i uspešno završila I i II nivo (semestar) obrazovanja u public relations-u, nastavnog programa izrađenog prema standardu IPRA - International Public Relations Association pri Poslovnoj Školi za Public Relations u Beogradu.

Odlično govori engleski jezik (i bavi se stručnim prevodom na i sa engleskog jezika), a služi se i italijanskim i nemačkim, te latinskim i starogrčkim.

  • Žakula, S. (ed.) 2008. The post, studentski antropološki časopis, no. 3, Beograd: KSEA – editor in chief
  • Žakula, S. (2011) „Zimski seminar antropologije u Istraživačkoj stanici Petnica“, in: Antropologija, no. 1 (11), pp. 229-230
  • Žakula, S. (2011) „Upotreba pojma ’kultura’ u studijama savremene srpske kulturne politike“, in: The Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA no. LIX (2), pp. 257-260
  • Žakula, S. 2012. „Do cyborgs dream of biomechanical sheep? The body and hyperreality“, in: Antropologija no. 2 (12), pp. 43-61
  • Žakula, S. 2012. „What makes a contemporary werewolf? A semiotic analysis of newspaper articles on the 'werewolf of Tamnava county'“, in: Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology no. 7 (4), pp. 1017-1032
  • Žakula, S. 2013. "(Mis)understanding Darwin: evolution and the construction of the border between humans and animals", in: Kulturna prožimanja: antropološke perspektive, ed. Srđan Radović, 31-50. Beograd: Etnografski institut SANU (Zbornik Etnografskog instituta 28)
  • Žakula, S. 2013. "The narrativization of an unusual event at Belgrade zoo: a semiotic analysis of the story of Gabi the dog and the jaguar", in: Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology no. 8 (4), pp. 1047-1069
  • Žakula, S. 2014. "The animal body, violence and moral panic: the case of Mila the dog", in: The Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA 62 (1), pp. 163 – 178
  • Žakula, S. 2015. "International summer school and conference Keep it simple, make it fast! Crossing borders of underground music scenes", in: The Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA, LXIII (3): 651-655.
  • Filipović, M. i Žakula, S. 2017. "Social patterns of natural disasters: the case of hurricane Katrina", in Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology, [S.l.], v. 12, n. 1, p. 195–215
  • Tomašević Milan and Sonja Žakula. 2017. "The Institute of Ethnography SASA and Researchers' Night: a three year chronicle", in: The Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA, LXV (1): 239-241.
  • Žakula, Sonja. 2017. "Multiculturality", in: prof. dr Ljiljana Gavrilović (ed.) Ethnology and anthropology 70 concepts. Beograd: Službeni glasnik i Etnografski institut SANU, p. 226-230.
  • Žakula, Sonja. 2017. "Nature", in: prof. dr Ljiljana Gavrilović (ed.) Ethnology and anthropology 70 concepts. Beograd: Službeni glasnik i Etnografski institut SANU, p. 339-344.
  • Bašič Ivana, Žakula Sonja and Miloš Rašić. 2017. "Symbol", in: prof. dr Ljiljana Gavrilović (ed.) Ethnology and anthropology 70 concepts. Beograd: Službeni glasnik i Etnografski institut SANU, p. 372-379.
  • Žakula, Sonja. 2017. Zoos in Serbia: an anthropological perspective. PhD thesis. The Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Žakula, Sonja and Bojana Bogdanović. 2017. "70 година Етнографског института САНУ - хроника прославе". у: The Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA, LXV (3): 715-721
  • Žakula, Sonja; Đorđević Crnobrnja, Jadranka. 2018. Art Practices and Urban Promenades: Belgrade's Knez Mihailova Street vs. Dionysius the Areopagite Promenade in Athens. The Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA, [S.l.], v. 66, n. 1, p. 226-227,
  • Žakula, Sonja., "O antropologiji koja nadilazi ljudsko. Eduardo Kohn, 2013. University of California Press." Antropologija 18, no. 2 (2018). 167-171.
  • Žakula, Sonja; Živaljević, Ivana."The study of human-animal relations in anthropology and archaeology I". The Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA, [S.l.], v. 66, n. 2, p. 255-270,
  • Žakula, Sonja; Živaljević, Ivana."The study of human-animal relations in anthropology and archaeology II". The Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA, [S.l.], v. 67, n. 1, p. 153-172

Izlaganja na konferencijama i stručnim skupovima

  • (Ne)razumeti Darvina: evolucija i kulturna konceptualizacija granice između ljudi i životinja u antropološkoj perspektivi – izlaganje na međunarodnom naučnom skupu „Kulture i granice“, održanom u Vršcu 2011. godine.
  • Da li kiborzi sanjaju biomehaničke ovce? Telo i hiperrealnost – izlaganje na međunarodnom skupu „Telo, (bio)tehnologije i moć“, održanom na Filozofskom fakultetu u Beogradu u novembru 2011. godine.
  • Plenarno predavanje pod nazivom ’The animal turn’ in the social sciences: unnatural histories, anthropomorphism and the voiceless Other, održano u okviru Četvrte međunarodne konferencije studenata arheologije STARCO, održane na Zlatiboru u martu 2013. godine.
  • Izlaganje pod nazivom „Koncept ’verovanja’ u radovima Tihomira Đorđevića o životinjama“ na naučnom skupu ’Etnos’, religija i identitet: naučni skup u čast Dušana Bandića, održanom u aprilu 2014. Godine na Filozofskom fakultetu u Beogradu.
  • Izlaganje pod nazivom „The Separation of Scene and State: the Balkanization of the Belgrade Punk Scene in the Wake of the Wars in Yugoslavia“ na međunarodnoj konferenciji Keep it simple, make it fast: crossing borders of underground music scenes, održanoj Univerzitetu u Portu u Portugalu u julu 2015. godine.
  • Izlaganje „Punk, politics and resistance“ održano na Punk now! konferenciji održanoj na City University u Birmingemu u Velikoj Britaniji u oktobru 2015. godine.
  • Izlaganje Punk rock, feminism and the loud absence of riot girl from the 90's Belgrade scene. Održano na Keep it simple, make it fast! DIY cultures, spaces and places konferenciji u Portu u Portugalu u julu 2016. godine
  • Izlaganje pod nazivom Ljudsko-životinjski odnosi u antropologiji i arheologiji.održano zajedno sa Ivanom Živaljević na Retrospektive i perspektive etnologije i antropologije - međunarodna naučna konferencija povodom 70 godina Etnografskog instituta SANU. Sirogojno, Srbija, 8.-10. septembar 2017. Str.63-64.
  • Izlaganje Žakula, Sonja. 2018. "Pretty in punk: female bodies and identity performance in the pit". Održano na Keep it simple, make it fast! Gender, differences, identities and DIY cultureskonferenciji na University of Porto, Portugal. 3. - 7. Jul. str. 263

Predavanja

  • Žakula, Sonja. 2012. How science created cultural ideas about animals – lecture held at the department of Archaeology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, as part of the “Archaeology and Social Anthropology” course on March16th 2012.
  • Žakula, Sonja. 2013. Plenary lecture titled ’The animal turn’ in the social sciences: unnatural histories, anthropomorphism and the voiceless Other, held at the Fourth International STARCO (students' archaeology conference) in March 2013.
  • Žakula, Sonja. Leture titledThe study of human-animal relations in anthropology, given by invitation at the Institute for Phylosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade, on June 15th 2015.
  • Žakula, Sonja. 2015. Lecture titled Do cyborgs dream of biomechanical sheep? Given on September 18th2015 at Belgrade city Library, as part of Researchers' night
  • Žakula, Sonja. 2016. Lecture titled The animal body in science given by invitation on July 7th 2016 at the Centre for the study of Bioethics in Belgrade.
  • Žakula, Sonja. 2016. Lecture titled Sociocultural anthropology and animals held on December 28th 2016 at the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, as part og the "Introduction to Archaeology" course.
  • Žakula, Sonja. 2017. Lecture titled Doing fieldwork in a zoo given by invitation on November 28th 2017, as part of the Sećanje na sećanja exhibition.
  • Between 2011 and 2019, Žakula has given about 50 lectures at Petnica Science Center, mostly at interdisciplinary social science and humanities seminars: Mind, Language and Culture; History, Culture and Civilization; at the Summer Science School aimed at elementary school students, at the interdisciplinary seminar ALL aimed at highschool students, the social sciences and humanities seminar DRH, as well as the Anthropology seminar.
  • 31.10.2018 Moderated the discussion on the ethnographic film "PET kućnih ljubimaca" as part of the "Ethnological films in Manak's house" program.
  • 7.2.2019 Participated in a roundtable discussion on human-animal relations, as part of the "Co-voyagers" exhibition at the French Institute in Belgrade.
  • 19.4.2019 Participated in roundtable discussion on the preservation of wild animal habitats and humans' attitudes toward them as part of the opening ceremony for the exhibition "Instinct and terrain" at the French Institute in Begrade.
  • 24.4.2019 Participated in the discussion on the relationship between humans and animals in zoos as part of the "EMIL (B5044)" exhibition at the Art Gallery of the Belgrade Cultural Center.

Ostalo

  • 2009 Center for education policy, Belgrade – researcher with the “Governing in higher education in Serbia” project
  • Since 2013 a participant in "European Researchers' night - Serbia" funded by the Marie Curie Foundation as part of the Horizon 2020 Project.
  • From 2014 to 2018 (with a break in 2016) coordinated the exhibitions representing ethnology and anthropology at "European Researcher's night - Serbia"
  • 2018actively participated in organizing "Open doors of The Institute of Ethnography SASA" events as part of the Working group for "Open doors of The Institute of Ethnography SASA"
  • 2019 became coordinator of the Working group for "Open doors of the Institute of Ethnography SASA"