ESA presentations on Cultural Wars in Serbia and Gender and Cultural Consumption in Croatia

INVENT project team members Predrag Cvetičanin (Serbia), Inga Tomić-Koludrović and Mirko Petrić (Croatia) participated in the 8^th mid-term conference of the European Sociological Association’s Sociology of Culture research network (ESA RN7), “En-Compass-ing Culture(s): Beyond East/West and South/North”. The conference took place between 10th and 12th March 2021 and was hosted by the University of Helsinki. 

Predrag Cvetičanin was one of the three keynote speakers. In his presentation on “Classes and Cultural Wars in Serbia” he spoke about the link between class divisions and symbolic struggles in contemporary Serbia. The recording of this keynote address can be view here. In Mirko Petrić’s and Inga Tomić Koludrović’s talk “Gender and Modernity: Cultural Consumption of Men and Women in Croatia” some of the results of the project “Relational Gender Identities in Croatia: Modernization and Development Perspectives” were presented.