BASIC INFO
Jasmina Talam completed undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD studies at the Academy of Music of the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.She is professor of the
ethnomusicological subjects (Musical folklore, Ethnomusicological research and fieldwork methodology, Ethnocoreology) and Head of Institute for Musicology at Academy of Music, University of Sarajevo. She regularly presents the results of her research in national and international conferences and contributed to numerous articles, book chapters and edited works published in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Slovenia, Turkey and United Kingdom. She was academic editorial contributors to Grove Music Online, Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World and SAGE Encyclopedia of Ethnomusicology. She is a member of editorial board of the magazine Muzika (Academy of Music in Sarajevo and Musicological Society of FBiH) and Journal of Literature and Art Studies (David Publishing Company, New York, USA). She is active member of the Musicological Society Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Chair of the International Council for Traditional Music – National committee in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her professional experiences also include presentations and invited lectures.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Talam, Jasmina et al. (2014), From Traditional to Modern: Ilahy in Bosnia and Hercegovina”. Maqām: Historical Traces and Present Practice in South European Music Traditions, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Talam, Jasmina, (2013), Folk Musical Instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Talam, Jasmina, (2013), Traditional Instrumentalists: Experiences in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 19. meeting ICTM Study Group Folk Musical Instruments. Studia Insturmentorum Musicae Popularis III. New Series

Talam, Jasmina, (2011), Examples of an interesting practice: Singing by the pan, 18. meeting ICTM Study Group Folk Musical Instruments. Studia Insturmentorum Musicae Popularis II. New Series

Talam, Jasmina, Karača Beljak, Tamara, (2011), Ethnomusicological Research and Fieldwork Methodology – Expirience in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Approaches to Music Research: between Practice and Epistemiology. Methodology of Music Research. Vol. 6.

Talam, Jasmina, (2010), Mehterhane and their influence on the Bosnian folk music, Militärmusik zwischen nutzen und missbrauch. Manfred Heidler, ed. Militärmusikdienst der Bundeswehr

Talam, Jasmina, Karača Beljak, Tamara, (2010), Revitalisation of the legacy of Cvjetko Rihtman. Ongoing ethnomusicological research at the Academy of Music in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Researching conservatoires enquiry, innovation and the development of artistic practice in higher music education. Pocketbook. Helena Gaunt, ed. Polifonia research working group. AEC Publication. 77

Talam, Jasmina, (2009), Drums in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 17. meeting ICTM Study Group Folk Musical Instruments. Studia Insturmentorum Musicae Popularis. I. New Series

Talam, Jasmina, Karača Beljak, Tamara, (2009), Ottoman Influence on Folk Music Tradicion of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Muzikološki zbornik. XLV/1. Ljubljana: Filozofska fakulteta

SELECTED PROJECTS
2014: Main researchers: prof. dr. Rajko Muršič and prof. dr. Jasmina Talam. Bilateral project between Faculty of Philosophy of Ljubljana and Academy of Music in Sarajevo: Transformations of popular music after the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia: On “feedbacks” between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia

2014: Lecturer, Training and research for academic newcomers (TRAIN). A project of the King Baudouin Foundation. Ghent University (scientific coordinator), University of Kent, Uppsala University, La Sapienza, University of Rome, UP Transfer Gmbh, Santander Group, University of Belgrade, University of Novi Sad, University of Montenegro, University of Sarajevo.

2014: Team leader. Women as Bearers of Folk Music Practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina

2014: Coordinators: dr. Gerda Lechleitner (Austria) and dr. Jasmina Talam (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Bilateral project between Phonogrammearchive, Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna and Academy of Music, University of Sarajevo: Murko project – Bosnian records

2011/2014: Coordinator for Academy of Music, University of Sarajevo. TEMPUS project: Introducing Interdisciplinarity in Music Studies in the Western Balkans in Line with European Perspective (partners: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Netherlands, Kosovo, Slovenia and Sweden)

2008/2009: Main researchers: prof. dr. Svanibor Pettan and dr. Jasmina Talam. Bilateral project between Faculty of Philosophy of Ljubljana and Academy of Music in Sarajevo: Perception of the Turks and of the East in folk music in the Territories Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia: Ethnomusicological parallels.