About Sense AGENDa

The project Sense AGENDa asks why different citizens have diverse opinions, and sometimes very strong conflicted feelings, about the issues of gender and sexual equality. To answer this question, the project compares how citizens in Croatia and in Belgium talk about gender and sexuality.

Principal investigator:
Tanja Vuckovic Juros
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Research

The research is divided into several stages:

1. Analysis of the main gender and sexuality policy developments and debates in Croatia and Belgium

2. Fieldwork “Parents discuss” (Flanders & Croatia)

3. Fieldwork “Citizens discuss” (Croatia)

Onderzoeksproject ‘Ouders discussiëren’Istraživački projekt ‘Roditelji raspravljaju’Istraživački projekt ‘Građani mlađe i starije životne dobi raspravljaju’
Funding & Academic Institutions

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship.

Host Institution: Sociology Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia

Secondment Institution: Centre for Sociological Research (CESO), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

About the project on the European Comission’s webpage

Talks & Presentations

Project presentations

2021: University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
2021: Dani otvorenih vrata na Filozofskom
2022: Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Conference presentations – national

Nacionalni kongres Hrvatskog sociološkog društva
2023 (Split, Hrvatska): Roditelji raspravljaju o seksualnom odgoju i pobačaju

Talks

2022 (Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju Beograd): Nevolje sa spolnim odgojom: Prvi pogled sa Sense AGENDa projekta

2024 (CeSO Brownbag Seminar, KULeuven): (Dis)Trust and the Imagined Other: Parents Talking about Sex Education

Conference presentations – international
International Conference of Europeanists (Council for European Studies, CES)

2022 (Lisbon, Portugal): Sexual(ity) Education in Croatia as a site of Anti-Gender Mobilizations (with Amir Hodžić)
2023 (Reykjavik, Iceland): From Gender Re-traditionalizations to Anti-gender Mobilizations: Care for Family in Serbia and Croatia (with Jelena Ćeriman)
2023 (Reykjavik, Iceland): A From-Below Look at Anti-Gender Mobilizations in Europe: Flemish and Croatian Parents Discussing Gender and Sexual Diversity in Schools

European Conference of Politics & Gender

2022 (Ljubljana, Slovenia): The influence of anti-gender mobilizations on the family policies in modern-day Serbia and Croatia (with Jelena Ćeriman)

Gotovanje na panelu ANTI-RODNI POKRETI: ISTRAŽIVANJA I OTPOR, u organizaciji Kina Katarina, Rijeka 14. 6. 2024.

Ostali panelisti: Maja Gergorić, Hrvoje Šimičević, Ana Lovreković, Ana Jurčić
Moderatorica: Marta Baradić

Kino Katarina

Photo credit: Tanja Kanazir

Reports & Publications

2023
Open access to the article

(with Jelena Ceriman) From Gender Re-Traditionalizations to Anti-Gender Mobilizations: Care for Family in Serbia and Croatia, in: Eastern European politics and societies

Open access to the chapter

Culture Wars as a Speech Act: Reflecting on Civilizational and Worldview Divides in the Case of Croatian Anti-Gender Mobilizations, in: Culture Wars in Europe

Srpski prijevod teksta emitiran na Radio Beogradu

Events (co-)organized or sponsored by Sense AGENDa

Metodološka škola u organizaciji projekta Sense AGENDa pri Filozofskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu i Sekcije za kvalitativne metode istraživanja pri Hrvatskom sociološkom društvu

Izazovi primjene i analize fokus grupa u društvenim znanostima

PROGRAM

 ZOOM DISKUSIJSKE GRUPE
3. 5. 2024. Što su fokus grupe i kada ih (ne) koristiti
17. 5. 2024. Planiranje i priprema za fokus grupe
23. 5. 2024. Grupna dinamika i etička pitanja

RADIONICA, FILOZOFSKI FAKULTET
6. 6. 2024. (A-309): 15:00-18:00: Uvod u analizu fokus grupa
7. 6. 2024. (računalna učionica Knjižnice FFZG, 1. kat) 9:00-12:30:
Interakcijska i grupna razina analize fokus grupa

SEMINAR OTVOREN JAVNOSTI, FILOZOFSKI FAKULTET
7. 6. 2024. (Konferencijska dvorana Knjižnice FFZG, 2. kat)

14:00 – 15:00 Tanja Vučković Juroš (Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb): Fokus grupe u istraživanju kontroverznih i osjetljivih tema – lekcije iz projekta Sense AGENDa

15:15 – 16:45 Okrugli stol: Izazovi fokus grupa iz perspektive početnika i iskusnih istraživača (Govornici: Amir Hodžić, Anamaria Klasić, Ivana Tutić Grokša, Jana Vukić)

16:45 – 17:30 Domjenak u Auli Knjižnice

17:30 – 19:00 Bojana Lobe (Sveučilište u Ljubljani): Online Focus Groups: Principles and Practice

Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association Sexuality Research Network

troubling gender & sex in southeast europe

Plenary panel open to the public, sponsored by the SENSE AGENDa project

Panelists:
Roman Kuhar
(University of Ljubljana)
Emilia Slavova
(University of Sofia)
Aleksandar Štulhofer
(University of Zagreb)
Adriana Zaharijević
(University of Belgrade)

Discussant
: Tanja Vučković Juroš (University of Zagreb)
Conference Programme