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Renata Jambrešić Kirin, PhD

e-mail: renata@ief.hr

Renata Jambrešić Kirin is a Senior Research Advisor in a permanent position at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, an associate of the Centre for Women’s Studies in Zagreb, and co-director of the postgraduate feminist seminar at the Inter University Centre Dubrovnik (2007–2027). She has held fellowships at the University of Oxford (Refugee Studies Programme), Central European University in Budapest, and Ohio University in Columbus, USA. Between 2000 and 2013, she participated in several international projects (led by Universität Münster, Transeuropéennes Paris, HESP Open Society Network, and COST Action EastBordNet). She has led the following research projects: Gender and Nation: Feminist Ethnography and Postcolonial Historiography (Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, 2007–2013), Narrating Fear (Croatian Science Foundation, 2017–2021), and Normality and Discomfort: Folkloristic and Interdisciplinary Approaches (National Recovery and Resilience Plan, 2024–2027).

She has co-organised more than thirty academic conferences with international participation, including the 18th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR), Encountering Emotions in Folk Narrative and Folklife, held online by the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb on 5–8 September 2021. From 2016 to 2024, she served as the European representative on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR). From 2022 to 2024, she coordinated the series of public online lectures The ISFNR Lecture Series – Voices from Around the Globe.

She actively collaborates with civil society organisations, including the Centre for Women’s Studies, the Goli Otok “Ante Zemljar” Association, and Documenta – Centre for Dealing with the Past, as well as with women artists associated with MAPA (Andreja Kulunčić) and the Open Visual Arts Platform (Kristina Leko). She participated in preparing Andreja Kulunčić’s exhibition and digital archive You Betrayed the Party When You Should Have Helped It, as well as its accompanying discursive programme, presented during the exhibition’s run at three museums (in Pula, Rijeka, and Zagreb) and one gallery (in Bucharest).

She is a member of the editorial advisory boards of journals  Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU and Makedonski folklor, and a member of the editorial board of Narodna umjetnost: Journal of the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research. She has also served on the editorial boards of Ethnologia Europaea and Treća: Journal of the Centre for Women’s Studies.

She is the author of the academic monograph Dom i svijet: o ženskoj kulturi pamćenja (2008) and two essay collections, Korice od kamfora (2015) and Svirati do kraja vremena (2025). She has co-edited eighteen edited volumes, seven of them published in the book series Feminisms in a Transnational Perspective, and published more than 150 works, including scholarly articles, papers, essays, radio and newspaper articles on folklore studies, the ethnography of war, cultures of memory and refuge, and feminist anthropology.

Her complete bibliography is available in the CroRIS database: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/8826

Monographs:

  1. Svirati do kraja vremena. Zagreb: Ljevak, 120 p. (book of micro essays)
  2. Korice od kamfora. Zagreb: Meandarmedia, 139 p. (book of short prose and essays)
  3. Jambrešić Kirin, Renata; Bekić Irena i Andreja Kulunčić. Vi ste Partiju izdale onda kada je trebalo da joj pomognete: ženski politički logor na Svetom Grguru i Golom otoku = You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It : women’s political prison camp on Sveti Grgur and Goli otok islands. Zagreb: MAPA i Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 107 p. (exhibition catalogue)
  4. Dom i svijet: o ženskoj kulturi pamćenja. Zagreb: Centar za ženske studije, 231 p.

Edited volumes:

  1. Jambrešić Kirin, Renata; Marković, Jelena; Prica, Ines (ur.). Potreseni: znanstvenohumanistički i umjetnički dosezi banijskog potresa. Zagreb: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku.
  2. Carotenuto, Silvana; Huzjak, Maša; Jambrešić Kirin, Renata and Biljana Kašić (eds). Feminist Trans/formations: Media, Art, Literature. Naples: UniorPress; Zagreb: Institute of Ethnology and Folklore.
  3. Jambrešić Kirin, Renata et al. (ur.). 2021. Posebna soba, žensko nasljeđe: Roba, spektakl ili muzej. . [Radovi sa znanstveno-književnog skupa „Marija Jurić Zagorka – život, djelo, nasljeđe / Žensko nasljeđe: roba, spektakl ili muzej za sve?” održanog 23.-24. studenog 2018. u sklopu 12. Dana Marije Jurić Zagorke]. Zagreb: Centar za ženske studije, Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku i Sveučilište Sjever.
  4. Badurina, Natka; Una Bauer, Renata Jambrešić Kirin i Jelena Marković. Encountering Fear. Zagreb: Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research.

2019/2020. Miholić, Irena i Renata Jambrešić Kirin (prir.). Prvi svjetski rat u hrvatskim tradicijskim pjesmama. Zagreb: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku. (2019. e-izdanje; 2020. tiskano izdanje)

  1. Carotenuto, Silvana; Gabrielli, Francesca M. and Renata Jambrešić Kirin (eds.). Disrupting Historicity, Reclaiming the Future. Naples: UniorPress; Zagreb: Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research.
  2. Čale Feldman, Lada; Dremel, Anita, Jambrešić Kirin, Renata et al. (ur.). Plameni inkvizitor. Feminizam i kultura straha. [Radovi sa znanstvenog skupa „Marija Jurić Zagorka – život, djelo, nasljeđe / Feminizam i kultura straha održanog 24.-25. studenog 2017. u sklopu 11. Dani Marije Jurić Zagorke]. Zagreb: Centar za ženske studije i Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku.
  3. Jambrešić Kirin, Renata; Marković, Jelena; Marks, Ljiljana i Nataša Polgar (ur.) Humor u svakodnevnoj komunikaciji. Zagreb: Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku.
  4. Čale Feldman, Lada; Dremel, Anita; Jambrešić Kirin, Renata, et al. (ur.). Kamen na cesti: granice, opresija i imperativ solidarnosti. [Radovi sa znanstvenog skupa „Marija Jurić Zagorka – život, djelo, nasljeđe / Preko granica: opresija i imperativ solidarnosti“ održanog 25.-26. studenog 2016. u sklopu 10. Dana Marije Jurić Zagorke]. Zagreb: Centar za ženske studije i Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku.
  5. Čale Feldman, Lada; Dremel, Anita; Jambrešić Kirin, Renata; Grdešić, Maša i Lidija Dujić (ur.). Crveni ocean: prakse, taktike i strategije rodnog otpora. [Radovi sa znanstvenog skupa „Marija Jurić Zagorka – život, djelo, nasljeđe / Prakse, taktike i strategije otpora” održanog 20.-21. studenog 2015. u sklopu devetih Dana Marije Jurić Zagorke]. Zagreb: Centar za ženske studije; Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža.
  6. Čale Feldman, Lada; Dujić, Lidija; Borić, Rada; Prlenda, Sandra; Grdešić, Maša; Jambrešić Kirin, Renata i Anita Dremel (ur.). Uzduž i poprijeko. Brak, zakon i intimno građanstvo u povijesnoj i suvremenoj perspektivi. [Radovi sa znanstvenog skupa „Marija Jurić Zagorka – život, djelo, nasljeđe / Intimno građanstvo, obitelj, brak, spolnost i zakon u povijesnoj i suvremenoj perspektivi” održanog 20.-22. studenog 2014. u sklopu osmih Dana Marije Jurić Zagorke]. Zagreb: Centar za ženske studije; Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža.
  7. Jambrešić Kirin, Renata; Carotenuto, Silvana, Prlenda, Sandra (eds.). A Feminist Critique of Knowledge Production. Naples: L’Orientale University Press.
  8. Jambrešić Kirin, Renata; Prlenda, Sandra (eds.). Women Narrating Their Lives and Actions = Zagreb: Centar za ženske studije; Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku.
  9. Jambrešić Kirin, Renata; Prlenda, Sandra (eds.). Feminisms in a transnational perspective (3): Spiritual practices and economic realities: Feminist challenges. Zagreb: Centar za ženske studije; Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku.
  10. Jambrešić Kirin, Renata; Prlenda, Sandra (eds). Feminizmi u transnacionalnoj perspektivi (2): Glasom do feminističkih promjena / Feminisms in a transnational perspective (2): Voicing feminist concerns. Zagreb: Centar za ženske studije; Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku.
  11. Jambrešić Kirin, Renata; Prlenda, Sandra (eds). Feminizmi u transnacionalnoj perspektivi: Promišljanje sjevera i juga u postkolonijalnosti / Feminisms in a transnational perspective: Rethinking North and South in Post-Coloniality. Zagreb: Centar za ženske studije; Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku.
  12. Jambrešić Kirin, Renata; Škokić, Tea (ur.). Između roda i naroda: etnološke i folklorističke studije. Zagreb: Centar za ženske studije; Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku.
  13. Jambrešić Kirin, Renata; Povrzanović, Maja (ur.). War, Exile, Everyday Life: Cultural Perspectives. Zagreb: Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research.