The Festival of Folk Culture "The Transfiguration"

Prof. Dr. Velika Stojkova - Serafimovska

PhD. Davorin Trpeski is an Associate Profesor at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology. He was born in Prilep, Macedonia in 1976.
He graduated from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology at the University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius - Skopje, on "Ethnological and folk elements in the pre evectional campaign in 2000 in Macedonia" and in 2005 he became Master of Ethnology at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (IEA) in at the University of Sts.Cyril and Methodius - Skopje, on "Virtual models of dwellings in the Macedonian folk masonery. "

In 2010 he acquired the title Doctor of Ethnology at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology (IEA) UKIM - Skopje, on the topic: Creating a cultural policy in the protection of cultural heritage in Macedonia in the post-socialist period.

In 2001 he was elected a Junior Assistant at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius "in Skopje.

In 2006 - Assistant at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius "in Skopje.

2011 - Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius "in Skopje.

In 2015 he was elected an associate professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University "Ss. Cyril and Methodius "in Skopje.

He was granted scholarships and awards. In 2009 he won the scholarship "Helmut Kohl", for his doctorate theses and publishing a part of it by the Foundation Juste, Spain. In 2008 he won the scholarship "Marie Curie" for a European doctorate awarded for a research stays at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia, and in 2005 he won a scholarship awarded by the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture for a study stay at the Department of Southeast Europe at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz, Austria.

As an independent author he published:
In 2012 - "The Nationalism and the Use of Cultural Heritage: Few Post-Socialist Macedonian Examples" in: Victor de Munck & Ljupcho Risteski (eds.), Macedonia - The Political, Social, Economic and Cultural Foundations of a Balkan State, IB Tauris Publishers, 89-108.

- "Conceptualizing Gender in Macedonia" in: Victor de Munck and Ljupcho Risteski (eds), Macedonia - The Political, Social, Econom ic and Cultural Foundations of a Balkan State, I.B. Tauris Publishers, 109-135.

- "Cultural Heritage and National Identity in Post-socialist Macedonia", in: Eric Bussiere and Enrique Moradiellos (eds.), Memories and Places of Memory in Europe, P.I.E. Peter Lang, 209-224.

- "Review of the Cultural Heritage: Theory to the definition of UNESCO", in Collection of Papers IV: Workshop on traditional music and dance, Ilindenski Denovi, Bitola, 40-47.

In 2011 "Ethnic characteristics of Macedonia at the turn of the twentieth century", in: Young brides, old treasures: Macedonian embroidered dress, Museum of International Folk Art, University of Washington Press, 56-74.

- "The intangible cultural heritage in Macedonia: terms and the status of the institutions", in: Condition of the cultural and natural heritage in the Balkan region, Volume 2, ICOM SEE, Belgrade, 353-362.

In 2009, "The fallacy of misplaced identity in Macedonia and Lithuania", in: Identity politics: histories, regions and borderlands, Studia Anthropologica III, Klaipedia University, 69-78.

- "Introduction: Towards the anthropology of social change," EthnoAnthropoZoom no. 9, journal of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the University, Skopje, 10-18.

- "Policies of reinterpretation of the past in post-socialist Macedonia" EthnoAnthropoZoom no. 9, journal of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the University, Skopje, 56-70.

- "The intangible cultural heritage in Macedonia: terms and the status of the institutions", in: Condition of the cultural and natural heritage in the Balkan region, Volume 2, ICOM SEE, Belgrade, 353-362.

- "Handling artifacts, cataloging and documenting ethnographic objects for the folk ensembles", in Proceedings Papers III: Seminar on traditional music and dance, Ilinden days, Bitola, 25-33.

In 2009 "The fallacy of misplaced identity in Macedonia and Lithuania", in: Identity politics: histories, regions and borderlands, Studia Anthropologica III, Klaipedia University, 69-78.

- "Monuments in postsocijalistikiot period: the example of the city - the hero of Macedonia" EthnoAnthropoZoom no. 6, Journal of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the University, Skopje, 96-112.

- "The monuments in the post-socialist period: the example of the city-hero of Macedonia", Kula, Revija Slovenskega etnoškega in antropološkega združenja, Roaming Anthropology IV, Ljubljana, 67-73.

In 2006 "Identity and ideology of one Macedonian political party", Roaming anthropology, Belgrade, 80-85.

And "divergence of ethnic identity in Brdo in Albania," Golo Brdo, Proceedings papers, Skopje, 58-62.

In 2005 "Ethnographic characteristics of tronj from Bardovci and its virtual presentation", ethnology, no. 11, Skopje, 160-169.

In 2004 "Aspects of ethno and identity campaign in Macedonia", ethnology, no. 10, Skopje, 34-41 and "Crafts in Ohrid in early XX century," Ohrid - Cradle of Beauty

- a multimedia CD, Skopje:in 2003 2003 "Ethnomitoves of the Macedonian political scene," EthnoAnthropoZoom no. 3, Journal of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the University, Skopje, 90-100.

In 2002, "The view of the tradition and ethnic characteristics and their application in the pre election campaign," EthnoAnthropoZoom no. 2, Skopje, 140-150 and in 2000 "Autumn-winter cycle within the framework of the project Multicultural and ethnic characteristics of four villages in Veles"

He published two monographs in 2013, "Who owns the past? Cultural policy and protection of the cultural heritage in post-socialist Macedonia, Skopje University, Faculty of Natural Sciences - Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Skopje, 1-264 and in 2006 "Virtual models of dwellings in the Macedonian folk masonery " PMF - Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Skopje , 1-130.