OFFICE: C-002
PHONE: +385 1 4092 127
E-MAIL: pkelemen@ffzg.hr
OFFICE HOURS: maternity leave

COURSES:
Anthropology of festivals (lecturer)
Anthropology of tourism (lecturer)

BIOGRAPHY

Petra Kelemen was born in 1981 in Varaždin. In 2004 she graduated Croatian Language and Literature and Ethnology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. At the same faculty, in October 2012 she defended her doctoral thesis titled “The Festival and the Town – Cultural Policies, Performances and Identities. A Case Study of the Špancirfest, Varaždin”. She worked as an assistant at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zadar from September 2007 till October 2008. Since November 2008 she works at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. She teaches courses Introduction to Ethnology, Anthropology of Tourism, Anthropology of Festivals and Intangible Cultural Heritage. She collaborated on more than ten domestic and international scientific projects. She published one book (with Nevena Škrbić Alempijević) and one popular scientific publication (with Jasna Čapo). She co-edited two edited volumes. She published around thirty scientific and professional papers in Croatian and international journals and edited volumes. She participated at thirty domestic and international scientific conferences and professional events. She received Franjo Marković Award from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (in 2005), Annual award from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (in 2013), Special recognition from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (in 2015), Recognition from the Croatian Ethnological Society (in 2015), Annual award “Milovan Gavazzi” from the Croatian Ethnological Society (in 2019), and Special recognition from the Croatian Ethnological Society (in 2020). From 2016 till 2020 she was the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Etnološka tribina. She is the member of the Croatian Ethnological Society and the Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF). The focuses of her scientific interest are the construction of heritage, intangible cultural heritage, festivals and other public events, and the anthropology of tourism.

PUBLISHED WORK
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