ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3214-0000
e-mail: sona.lutherova@savba.sk
tel.: 02-5296 4707, ext. 111
Education: Philosophical Faculty, Comenius University in Bratislava, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, 2007
Qualifications, scientific and honorary titles obtained: Mgr. (2007), PhD. (2012)
Languages: English, German, Swedish (basic)
Employed at the Institute since: 2007
Research projects
APVV SUB-KIK – Suburbanizácia: Komunita, identita a každodennosť, [Suburbanization> Community, identity, everyday life] Coordinating institution: Institute of Geography SAS, 2021 - 2025
DESIRE – DESIgn for all methods to cREate age-friendly housing, Erasmus+ project, Coordinating institution: Slovak University of Technology, 2020 - 2022
Who cares in Europe? COST, 2019 - 2023
Reflexive Writing as a Method of Ethnographic Inquiry, VEGA Research project, 2019 - 2021
Intergenerational social networks in an aging city, continuity and innovation, APVV Research Project, Coordinating institution: The Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, 2017 - 2020
Current Images of Socialism, APPV Research, 2017 - 2020
Wartime Slovak State and the Holocaust in the Current Social Discourse. (An Ethnological Perspective), VEGA Research project, 2017 - 2020
Aplication of innovative methods in ethnology/anthropology. VEGA Research project, 2016-2019
Safe and inclusive school environment for transgender children and youth. In cooperation with n.g.o. TransFúzia, financed by ILGA Europe, 2015-2016
Civic activities as a determinant of the sustainable city development (ethnological view), VEGA Research Project, 2014 - 2017
Family histories. Intergenerational Transfer of Representation of Political and Social Changes. VEGA Research Project, 2014-2017
Adaptation of Urban Inhabitants in the Processes of Social Change. VEGA Research Project, 2011-2013
Folk knowledge and its social and cultural conditions, VEGA Research Project, 2011–2013
Parental Choice and Caring for Children in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, GAČR Research Project, 2010 – 2012
Sociocultural Change and Adaptation: Transformational Processes in Slovak Society, VEGA Research Project, 2008 – 2010
Urban Environment as a Space for Diversity, VEGA Research Project, 2008-2010
Teaching
Design Anthropology, Department of Design, Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia, 2016/2017
Material Culture, obligatory course for the students in 2nd-3rd year, Department of Sociology, Section of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Masaryk University in Brano, 2015/2016
Visual Anthropology, course for the students in the 4th year, Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, 2011 – 2012
Material Culture, obligatory course for the students in 2nd-3rd year, Department of Sociology, Section of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Masaryk University in Brano, 2010/2011
Material Culture, obligatory course for the students in 3rd year, Department of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Economical Sciences, Comenius University, 2010/2011
Methodological workshop for the PhD. students, Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, Kremnica, 11-14.1.2010
Host lectures at various universities (FIF UK in Bratislava; ZČU ZU in Pilsen; FSS MU in Brno; FSEV UK in Bratislava; FTF VŠMU in Bratislava).
Other activities
Documentary films (selection)
A Happy Man (Azyl Production, Company F, HBO Europe, in production)
Flooded (AH Production, Radio and Television of Slovakia (RTVS), Slovak Film Institute, 2017, 52 min). More information HERE.
Other
Can superheroes wear glasses? (EJ Publishing, 2018). A children fiction book about inclusion. More information HERE.
Stays abroad
CEU Summer School Documentary and Anthropological Film-making, Central European University, Budapest, 3.-24.7.2011.
Universitaet Wien, Institut Fuer Kultur- and Sozialanthropologie, National Scholarship Programme, Vienna, april – july 2010.
Sodertorns University, Centre for Eastern European and Baltic Studies, Marie Curie Fellowship European Doctorate in Social History of Europe and Mediterranean Stockholm, october 2008 – may 2009.
Philosophical Faculty, Charles University in Prague, Department of Ethnology, CEEPUS, january – june 2006.
Awards
The Annual Prize of the journal Pamiatky a múzeá for the movie Flooded, 2017
A member of the Club of individualities, Intenda Foundation, 2010
The prize of rector of the Comenius University for the excellent thesis, 2007
Publications
Monographs
Chapters in monographs
G. LUTHEROVÁ, Soňa: Spraviť hrubú čiaru. [To make a thick line] In: Salner, P. Ťažké časy [The hard times] Bratislava: Marenčin, 2020, pp.57-75.
G. LUTHEROVÁ, Soňa - HLINČÍKOVÁ, M.: Introduction. In: G. LUTHEROVÁ, S. - HLINČÍKOVÁ, M. (Eds.): Za hranicami vedy? Aplikovaná antropológia v spoločnosti. [Beyond the Borders of Anthropology? Applied Anthropology in The Society] Bratislava: Veda, 2016, pp. 9 - 17, ISBN 978-80-224-1543-9.
G. LUTHEROVÁ, Soňa 2016: Aplikovaná antropológia medzi vedou a umením. [Applied Anthropology Between Science and Art]. In GYÁRFÁŠ LUTHEROVÁ, S. – HLINČÍKOVÁ, M. (eds.). Za hranicami vedy? Aplikovaná antropológia v spoločnosti [Beyond the Borders of Anthropology? Applied Anthropology in The Society]. Bratislava: Veda; Ústav etnológie SAV, 2016, pp.131-156.
LUTHEROVÁ G., Soňa 2013: Transformation of Micro- and Macro-Worlds in Postsocialism. In Biťušíková, A. - Luther, D. Cultural and social diversity in Slovakia. Social change and adaptation. Banská Bystrica: Institute of social and cultural studies FHV UMB; Bratislava: Institute of Ethnology SAS, 2013, pp. 8-19.
LUTHEROVÁ, Soňa; ZEMANOVÁ, Lenka, 2008: Vznik a vývin vajnorského JRD. [The Origins and Development of The Agricultural Cooperative] In: Červenka, J. et al. Naše Vajnory. Bratislava: Mestská časť Vajnory, pp.134-145.
Academic papers
G. LUTHEROVÁ, Soňa 2021: "Do not use the word anthropology!": On the struggle of artistic and scientific selves in anthropological film-making. In: Human Affairs, roč. 31, č.3, str. 276-289.
G. LUTHEROVÁ, Soňa – VRGZULOVÁ, Monika 2021: Introduction: Remembering the Socialist Past. In: Journal of Nationalism Memory and Language Politics, roč. 15, č.1, s.1-15.
G. LUTHEROVÁ, Soňa 2014: Sweet Property O Mine. In Home Cultures, vol.11,
no.1., pp.79-102.
MAŘÍKOVÁ, Hana – G. LUTHEROVÁ, Soňa 2013: Předškolní péče o děti z pohledu rodičů:
srovnání České a Slovenské republiky. [Pre-primary school childcare from the
perspective of Parents: Czech and Slovak republic comparation] In Fórum sociální politiky, vol.7,no.4., pp.9-15.
LUTHEROVÁ, Soňa 2009: Konštruovanie vlastníctva a domova.[Property and Home construction] In. Slovak Ethnology, vol.57, no.3, pp.367-385.
LUTHEROVÁ, Soňa 2008: The notions of young people about their housing and the strategies of its acquisition. In. Rochovská, A., Kovalčik, J., Muránsky, M. (eds.). „New“ Europe and Challenges of Sustainable Development. Bratislava: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung e. V., pp.137-145.
LUTHEROVÁ, Soňa 2008: Rodové stereotypy v reklamách pre deti.[Gender Stereotypes in Advertisements for Children] In ASPEKTin - feministický webzin. ISSN 1225-8982. Published on the May 15th 2008. Online here.
Academic articles
G. LUTHEROVÁ, Soňa 2012: Dizajn pre ľudí. Antropologická perspektíva.[Design for people: Anthropological perspective] In: Designum, vol.18, no.6, pp.70-72.
LUTHEROVÁ, Soňa 2008: Na hranici.[On the Edge] In: Etnologické rozpravy, vol.16, no.2, pp.142-147.
LUTHEROVÁ, Soňa 2008: Identita, rod...a dizajn. [Identity, gender and....design]In: Designum, vol.13, no.2, pp.35-37.
LUTHEROVÁ, Soňa 2007: Maurice Bloch: Na ceste. [Maurice Bloch: On the road] In: Anthropos. Bratislava: Kalligram, no.13, pp.55-56.