OFFICE: C-008
PHONE: +385 1 4092-134
E-MAIL: tkomar@ffzg.hr
OFFICE HOURS: Mondays 16 – 17 h
COURSES:
Introduction to Ethnology (lecturer)
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (lecturer)
Culture and identity (lecturer)
BIOGRAPHY
Tibor Komar was born in 1978. He graduated from high school in Zagreb, and as a scholarship recipient of the Open Society Croatia spent one year attending high school in the United States. 2002 he enrolled at the study of Information sciences (majoring in Museology) and Ethnology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. As a student he participated at the international student symposium Academic or applied humanities: which should prevail? held in Slovenia in 2005 as one of the presenters in English language. During his studies he participated in several field researches of the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, and in 2008 defended his bachelor thesis entitled Alcohol, culture and society. Since 2008 he’s been working on a project “Sacral interpretation of the landscape” as a research assistant at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences under prof. Tomo Vinšćak, PhD. This project is dealing with researching of the remains of the pre-Christian beliefs in Croatia and neighboring countries. In 2009 he enrolled at the Postgraduate Doctoral Study of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Tibor Komar finished his PhD in 2014 by defending his doctoral thesis entitled “National identity construction of Croatian national football team members from diaspora”. He has participated and presented in several conferences and symposia: Croatian Society of Ethnologists symposium Culture and Transformation: Croatia from 1945 to 1990 on Cres; international Symposium on Intercultural Dialogue and Digital Culture in Zagreb; international scientific meeting Old Slavic gods and their Christian substitutes on Brač; international conference Croatian beginnings on the slopes of Učka and Perun in Mošćenice; international conference on Application of technology in the presentation of cultural and historical heritage in Zagreb; the Summer School of Social Anthropology Rethinking Anthropological Engagement in Central-Eastern Europe in Warsaw, Poland; a scientific symposium Vareš colloquia in Vareš, Bosnia and Herzegovina; international scientific conference The cult of the Great Mother and worshiping of the Mother of God in Zagreb, international scientific sociological conference Development and Environment – Sustainability Perspectives in Zagreb, international anthropological conference Football research in an Enlarged Europe – Identities 2013, Vienna, Austria. From 2012 he works as an associate with a bilateral project of Slovenia and Croatia “National Parks: construction of heritage and the role of the state”.
PUBLISHED WORK
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