Mgr. Ľubica Kollárová, PhD.

She works as a senior researcher in the Research Department of Bratislava City Museum. She is a co-author of the Bratislava City Museum Research Strategy and serves as secretary of the museum’s Scientific Council. Her work applies an anthropological perspective to the study of the city, and she develops and carries out interdisciplinary research projects focused on the Bratislava microregion.

She previously spent a year in New Zealand, where she researched cultural identity and Māori language revitalisation. She worked at the Department of Ethnology and Non-European Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, and as an external lecturer at the Department of Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava. She has also worked in both the cultural and commercial sectors as a curator, project manager, coordinator and analyst.

Publications and Studies

Monograph

Kollárová, Ľ. (2013): Identity and Language of the Two Main Groups of New Zealand Society: Māori and Pākehā. Brno: Tribun EU. ISBN 978-80-263-0366-4

Chapter in a Monograph

Kollárová, Ľ. (1999): Family Customs (Funeral Customs). In: Podolák, J. et al.: Heľpa. A Local History Monograph of the Village. Martin: Matica slovenská, pp. 195–199

Studies

Kollárová, Ľ. (2003): The Maori Language Status and Revitalization

Kollárová, Ľ. (2006): Aotearoa – New Zealand. The Issue of Biculturalism in Contemporary New Zealand Society. In: Ethnologia Actualis Slovaca, 6/2006, Ethnic Conflict and Identity

Kollárová, Ľ. (2009): Talking about Race Relations in New Zealand. In: Ethnologia Actualis Slovaca, 9/2009

Karásek, M. – Kollárová, Ľ. (2015): The Christian Democratic Youth of Slovakia: Christian Legacy, Post-Socialist Memory, and the Present Spirit of Capitalism. In: Ethnologia Actualis, 15(1), pp. 40–64

Reviews

Kollárová, Ľ. (2009): Book review: Šatava, L.: Language and Identity of Ethnic Minority Groups: Possible Ways of Their Maintenance and Revitalization. 2nd ed. Prague: Sociologické nakladatelství (SLON), 2009, 215 pp. ISBN 978-80-86429-83-0. In: Ethnologia Actualis Slovaca, 9/2009. ff.upce.cz

Exhibition Catalogue

Kollárová, Ľ. – Sarra Forest, L. – Schmidt, M. (2023): Transmodernity. Slovak Design Center