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 About principal investigatorContact me by e-mail
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)
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
Reports & Publications
Scientific papers
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 chapterCulture Wars as a Speech Act: Reflecting on Civilizational and Worldview Divides in the Case of Croatian Anti-Gender Mobilizations, in: Culture Wars in Europe
Serbian translation aired at Radio BeogradReports
Report and Recommendations from the Stakeholders’ Seminar ‘How to Talk to Parents about Sex Education and Education for Gender Equality’
PDF (in Croatian)
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 LeuvenConference presentations – national
Nacionalni kongres Hrvatskog sociološkog društva
2023 (Split, Hrvatska): Roditelji raspravljaju o seksualnom odgoju i pobačajuTalks
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 SchoolsEuropean 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)
2024 (Ghent, Belgium): Mobilizing the Womb: Anti-Abortion Activism and the Institutionalization of the Anti-Gender Movement in Croatia (with Maja Gergorić)European Sociological Association Conference
2024 (Porto, Portugal): Distrust and Discomfort: Talking About LGBT Issues Amidst Anti-Gender Mobilizations
Talk at the panel ‘ANTI-GENDER MOVEMENTS: RESEARCH AND RESISTANCE’, organized by Kino Katarina, Rijeka, 14 June 2024 (in Croatian)
Kino KatarinaPanelists: Maja Gergorić, Ana Jurčić, Ana Lovreković, Hrvoje Šimičević, Tanja Vučković Juroš
Moderatorica: Marta BaradićPhoto credit: Tanja Kanazir
Events (co-)organized or sponsored by Sense AGENDa
Stakeholders’ seminar
How to Talk to Parents about Sex Education and Education for Gender Equality
Organized by the Sense AGENDa project
Council Hall of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, 9 September 2024Photos from the seminar
Methodological school organized by the Sense AGENDa project & Section for Qualitative Research Methods of the Croatian Sociological Organization
Challenges of Using and Analyzing Focus Groups in Social Sciences
PROGRAM HELD IN CROATIAN
ZOOM DISCUSSION GROUPS (3 / 17 / 23 May 2024):
What are focus groups and when (not) to use them
Planning and preparing focus groups
Group dynamics and ethics
WORKSHOP, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (6 / 7 June 2024):
Introduction to focus group analysis
Interactional and group-level analysis of focus groups
SEMINAR OPEN TO PUBLIC (7 June 2024)
Tanja Vučković Juroš: Focus groups in researching controversial and sensitive topics – Lessons from the Sense AGENDa project
Round table: Challenges of focus groups from the perspective of novice and experienced researchers (panelist: Amir Hodžić, Anamaria Klasić, Ivana Tutić Grokša, Jana Vukić)
PROGRAM HELD IN ENGLISH
KEYNOTE LECTURE (7 June 2024)
Bojana Lobe (University of Ljubljana): Online Focus Groups: Principles and Practice
Photos
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
