This fee is all-inclusive and covers:
- Accommodation
- One warm meal per day
- All necessary filming and audio technology
- Round-trip transfer (Belgrade – Požarevac – Belgrade)
Dr. des. Thomas John is a visual and media anthropologist and filmmaker whose principal focus is visual and media anthropology, audiovisual documentary art, and qualitative audiovisual research methods. He is particularly interested in narrative strategies in creative documentary filmmaking — including collaborative, sensory, and experimental approaches — as well as projects at the intersection of documentary and fiction. He received his BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Münster and an MA in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin. He was a PhD candidate at the Latin American Institute and the Institute of Cultural Anthropology (FU Berlin) and a member of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre 'Affective Societies', where he worked for five years. In his doctoral research, he investigated politics of belonging and affect in the indigenous media and art scene in southern Mexico, accompanying local filmmakers to understand how they negotiate and intervene in emotions of belonging and political affect through film and other media practices. Thomas teaches audiovisual anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Münster), at the University of Freiburg, and at other institutions. Since 2016, he has been co-designer and co-director of the Master's program 'Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices' (University of Münster), where he teaches and supervises students and their audiovisual final projects. He also leads practical workshops in audiovisual documentary filmmaking and finds accompanying students' artistic research processes a deeply rewarding experience.
Professor Dr. Slobodan Naumović is an Associate Professor at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. His academic career and research are centered on the political anthropology of the Balkans, with a particular focus on nationalism, European integration, and the history of Serbian ethnology and anthropology. His work frequently explores the relationship between traditional culture and modernization, as well as the instrumentalization of tradition in contemporary political discourse. Professor Naumović is the author of the influential study Upotreba tradicije (The Use of Tradition, 2009) and has co-edited several volumes within the series Voices of the Neighbors: Selected Readings in Balkan Ethnology. In addition to his work in political anthropology, he is a key figure in the field of visual anthropology in the region. He has been instrumental in integrating visual methods into ethnographic research and has frequently served as a lecturer and mentor in international workshops and seminars dedicated to ethnographic film and visual storytelling. His broader research interests encompass the anthropology of transition and the study of the history and theory of Serbian and Balkan ethnology.