Institute for International Relations

Department for Culture and Communication
Ph.D., Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Jaka Primorac is employed at the Department for Culture and Communication as Research Associate currently working on the research project Global Influences and the Local Cultural Changes. Formerly she worked on the project Creative and Knowledge Industries of Countries in Transition. She was also organiser of the postgraduate courses Cultural Transitions in Southeastern Europe - The Creative City: Crossing Visions and New Realities in the Region, Cultural Cooperation in Southeastern Europe - Managing Cultural Transitions in Southeastern Europe: The Impact of Creative Industries and Managing Cultural Transitions: Southeastern Europe held at the Interuniversity Centre (IUC) in Dubrovnik. Previously she worked at IMO as research fellow and research assisstant on the Culturelink Database, and as an organiser of the course Redefining Cultural Identities: Cultural Industries and Technological Convergence.

Ms. Primorac also finished a one-year course in Women's Studies at the Centre for Women's Studies in Zagreb, where she cooperated on the project entitled 'Women at the University'. She is a member of PLOTKI - a network of young artists and writers from Central and Eastern Europe.

Jaka Primorac is the winner of the Cultural Policy Research Award (CPR Award) for the year 2005, awarded by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

Her research interests include creative and knowledge industries, cultural production, cultural policy, cultural development, cultural identities and cultural transition.

For further information, please see the detailed scientific bibliography.

Contact: IMO, Ul. Lj. F. Vukotinovića 2, P.O. Box 303, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia; tel.: +385-1-4877471; fax: +385-1-4828361; e-mail: jaka@irmo.hr