Biography
Dr. Tatjana Nikolić is a part-time member of the IKM research and teaching team in the field of Cultural Institution Studies. She graduated Cultural and Media Management at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Dramatic Arts and defended her PhD “Gender and Age Equality in the Cultural Policy of Serbia” under the supervision of Prof. emerita Dr. Milena Dragićević Šešić. Nikolić is employed as postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Theatre, Film, Radio and Television of the FDA in Belgrade.
Her book “Gender Relations in the Alternative Music Scene of Serbia and the region” was published in 2016. In 2021 she co-edited a thematic collection “Digital Horizons of Culture, Arts and Media” together with Prof. Dr. Milena Dragićević Šešić and in 2023 published another, co-authored monograph “Gender and Labor in the Cultural Field of Serbia”, together with Prof. Dr. Predrag Cvetičanin and Dr. Nađa Bobičić. She was member of the projects “Female Leadership in Music“ led by Doc. Dr. Iva Nenić of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade; “Gender Equality generates Cultural Diversity” within the Association of the Independent Cultural Scene of Serbia - funded by the UNESCO Fund for Cultural Diversity; the ERASMUS consortium “Reinventing Mentorship in Arts Management”, led by Estonian Music and Theatre Academy, etc.
At IKM she was member of the core programming team of the international gathering “Critiques of Power in the Arts” in 2024 and is currently, together with Prof. Dr. Lisa Gaupp and Dr. Özlem Canyürek, co-editing forthcoming international mdw press publication “Critiques and Asymmetries of Power: Music and Performing Arts”. Nikolić is also lecturer within master programs “Music in Society” and “Contemporary Artistic Practice” and a committee member for master thesis of the “Cultural Management” program graduates.
Publications and presentations (selection)
Cveticanin, P., Nikolic, T., Bobicic, N. (2023) Gender and Labor in the Cultural Field of Serbia. Faculty of Arts: Niš, Association of Independent Cultural Scene of Serbia: Belgrade. Open Access in English and Serbian language. https://nezavisnakultura.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/FINAL-Gender-and-Labor-in-the-Cultural-Field-in-Serbia-online.pdf
Nikolic, T., Mitic Minic, K. (2023). Women in Music: Possibilities and Responsibilities of Cultural Management and Policy. In Nenic, I, Cimardi, L. (Eds) Women’s Leadership in Music: Modes, Legacies, Alliances. Transcript Verlag. Open Access, pp. 153-166. https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6546-8/women-s-leadership-in-music/
Dragicevic Sesic, M., Nikolic, T. (2023) City Cultural Policies and Participative Governance Models, In Cultural Policy Yearbook 2020-2021 - Culture in the Cities: Present and Future, pp. 67-84. KPY - News - Cultural Policy Yearbook 2020-21 (bilgi.edu.tr)
Nenic, I., - Nikolic, T. (2022). Trabajo y Liderazgo Femenino en la Música. Contextos, Restricciones, Futuro(s)” Debats. Journal on Culture, Power and Society, 7, 123-138. DOI: http://doi.org/10.28939/iam.debats-136-2.1 [Female labour and leadership in music. Contexts, constraints, future(s). Debats. Journal on Culture, Power and Society 136(2)].
Jovićevic, J, Nikolic, T (2022). “Young Female Jazz Instrumentalists in Southeastern Europe: Self-esteem and Self-efficacy in the Context of Tokenism”. Paper presented at the 13th International Jazz Research Conference. University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. 9–12 June.
Nikolić, T., Ilčić, M. (2021). “Mobilne aplikacije u sektoru kulture u Srbiji” [Mobile Apps in the Cultural Sector of Serbia]. In Digitalni horizonti kulture, umetnosti i medija, edited by Milena Dragićević Šešić and Tatjana Nikolić, 97–119. Belgrade: Faculty of Dramatic Arts, CLIO. https://fdu.bg.ac.rs/uploads/files/Vesti/digitalni horizonti-2021.pdf
Nikolic, T. (2020). Društveni angažman mladih umetnica u digitalnom kontekstu. [Social engagement of young female artists in the digital context]. Kultura: casopis za sociologiju i teoriju kulture i kulturnu politiku, 169, pp. 86-112. ДРУШТВЕНИ АНГАЖМАН МЛАДИХ УМЕТНИЦА У ДИГИТАЛНОМ КОНТЕКСТУ - Časopis Kultura (casopiskultura.rs)
Nikolic, T. (2019) Umetnicki projekti sa migrantkinjama u Srbiji - pitanja kulturnog i rodnog identiteta. [Art projects with female migrants in Serbia - the question of cultural and gender identity]. Interkulturalnost: casopis za podsticanje i afirmaciju interkulturalne komunikacije, 18, pp. 84-95.
Nikolic, T. (2017) Ucesce i položaj žena u stvaranju muzike u bivšoj Jugoslaviji. [Participation and the position of women in creating music in former Yugoslavia]. Zbornik završnih radova studenata 2015/2016 i 2016/2017. Beogradska otvorena škola, pp. 115-124.
Nikolic, T. (2016). Rodni odnosi na alternativnoj muzikoj sceni Srbije i regiona [Gender relations within the alternative music scene of Serbia and the region]. Pokrajinski zavod za ravnopravnost polova: Novi Sad. “Родни односи на алтернативној музичкој сцени Србије и региона”, Татјана Николић (2016) - Завод за равноправност полова (ravnopravnost.org.rs)
