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Drawing Relationships: Drawing as Research Method (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nora, W. (2024, August). Drawing Relationships: Drawing as Research Method. Presented at "Drawing Worlds" Monsoon 2024 online lecture series, Online

In this talk, drawing and artmaking emerges as mode of empirical enquiry where the drawing itself is secondary to the act of drawing. Nora will be talking about sketching as research method, drawing on her experiences as a social anthropologist and a... Read More about Drawing Relationships: Drawing as Research Method.

Hospital Ethnography Between Buildings, Bailiwicks and Methods (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nora, W. (2024, May). Hospital Ethnography Between Buildings, Bailiwicks and Methods. Presented at Durham-Edinburgh Medical Anthropology Workshop 2024: “Health and The Environment”, Durham University

Trans Cosmologies, Opening Remarks and Programme (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2024, May). Trans Cosmologies, Opening Remarks and Programme. Presented at Trans Cosmologies: First Workshop in Cambridge, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge

Trans Cosmologies is a collaborative research and art project seeking to challenge and counteract the religious denial of trans lives and trans religious heritage. By exploring rich and diverse trans sacred traditions, as well as new, radical, and al... Read More about Trans Cosmologies, Opening Remarks and Programme.

'Healing Waters: An Unhyphenated Welcome' and Conference Programme, ‘Being with Water Otherwise: Sacred Knowledge and Sustainable Water-Human Relations’, Cambridge (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2024, April). 'Healing Waters: An Unhyphenated Welcome' and Conference Programme, ‘Being with Water Otherwise: Sacred Knowledge and Sustainable Water-Human Relations’, Cambridge. Presented at Being with Water Otherwise: Sacred Knowledge and Sustainable Water-Human Relations, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

As we grapple with the pressing issues of water management and its impact on ecosystems, economies, and societies, this conference seeks to explore a transformative perspective. Can diverse religious philosophies and practices offer lessons for susta... Read More about 'Healing Waters: An Unhyphenated Welcome' and Conference Programme, ‘Being with Water Otherwise: Sacred Knowledge and Sustainable Water-Human Relations’, Cambridge.

'Underworlding: Methodologies of Survival and Repair from the Bosnian Karst', invited talk for the Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Goldsmiths University of London (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2024, March). 'Underworlding: Methodologies of Survival and Repair from the Bosnian Karst', invited talk for the Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Goldsmiths University of London. Presented at Matters of Violence & Repair: Repurposing Anthropology in Critical Times, Goldsmiths University of London, Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series, Goldsmiths University of London

Set in southern Bosnia, in the enduring shadow of a genocidal project and its last escalation from the 1990s, this talk follows the meandering course of one sinking river, Trebišnjica, as it submerges into and emerges from the karst underground of th... Read More about 'Underworlding: Methodologies of Survival and Repair from the Bosnian Karst', invited talk for the Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Goldsmiths University of London.

On Ritual (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2024, February). On Ritual. Presented at Sunday Evensong Address, Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge - Re-examining Religious Ideas Series, Jesus College, Cambridge

This address was delivered as part of the Sunday Evensong address series at Jesus College Chapel, themed 'Re-examining Religious Ideas'. This series invites exploration of concepts and practices central to religious thought and identity, while also e... Read More about On Ritual.

‘Karstic Submergence: Memory Work from the Bosnian Dinaric Underground’, invited talk at the CRASSH conference on ‘More-than-human Memory’, University of Cambridge (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2023, June). ‘Karstic Submergence: Memory Work from the Bosnian Dinaric Underground’, invited talk at the CRASSH conference on ‘More-than-human Memory’, University of Cambridge. Paper presented at More-than-human Memory, University of Cambridge

Popovo Polje, a landscape stretched across the southern end of the Bosnian Dinaric highlands, is a karst system consisting of a wide field, a meandering sinking river and numerous caves and sinkholes, which are home to endemic species of animals and... Read More about ‘Karstic Submergence: Memory Work from the Bosnian Dinaric Underground’, invited talk at the CRASSH conference on ‘More-than-human Memory’, University of Cambridge.

Participatory democracy in Delhi: How the Aam Aadmi Party's model of governance is addressing unwellness in political institutions (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Venkat, V. (2023, April). Participatory democracy in Delhi: How the Aam Aadmi Party's model of governance is addressing unwellness in political institutions. Paper presented at Association of Social Anthropologists' Annual Conference 2023, SOAS University of London

This paper uses ethnographic research to study the model of governance established by the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi and explores the connections forged by legislative
members with their electoral constituencies via the organisation of nei... Read More about Participatory democracy in Delhi: How the Aam Aadmi Party's model of governance is addressing unwellness in political institutions.

Restoring Femininity through Consumption: Female Fans of Male Porn Actors in Japanese Jôsei-muke AVs (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kodaka, M. (2021, August). Restoring Femininity through Consumption: Female Fans of Male Porn Actors in Japanese Jôsei-muke AVs. Presented at The Twelfth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12), Virtual

This paper looks at female fans of male porn actors in Jôsei-muke Adult Videos (AV) in Japan. The genre of Jôsei-muke is a form of pornography aimed at heterosexual women that features good-looking male porn actors; Eromen and Lovemen. This new genre... Read More about Restoring Femininity through Consumption: Female Fans of Male Porn Actors in Japanese Jôsei-muke AVs.

Welcome to the International Symposium "The Khiḍr Dialogues: Leaps of Faith, Religious Encounters & Shared Sacred Landscapes" and Inauguration of the Shared Sacred Landscapes Exhibition (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2021, May). Welcome to the International Symposium "The Khiḍr Dialogues: Leaps of Faith, Religious Encounters & Shared Sacred Landscapes" and Inauguration of the Shared Sacred Landscapes Exhibition. Presented at The Khiḍr Dialogues: Leaps of Faith, Religious Encounters & Shared Sacred Landscapes International Symposium & Shared Sacred Landscapes Exhibition, Online

The first installment of The Khiḍr Dialogues symposium and the inauguration of the online Shared Sacred Landscapes photographic exhibition come together to explore themes of interfaith encounters, shared rituals, and the dynamic interplay of humans w... Read More about Welcome to the International Symposium "The Khiḍr Dialogues: Leaps of Faith, Religious Encounters & Shared Sacred Landscapes" and Inauguration of the Shared Sacred Landscapes Exhibition.

An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Cambridge Festival Panel, 2021 (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2021, March). An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Cambridge Festival Panel, 2021. Presented at Panel: An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (Cambridge Festival 2021), Online

This experimental panel invites the audience to engage with visual research of interfaith relations and shared religious environments by producing collaborative ‘chain poems’ to be used as prompts in the Q&A with the researchers. 'An Interfaith Pictu... Read More about An Interfaith Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Cambridge Festival Panel, 2021.

Drawing in the Field – Of intimacy, power inversions and loosing oneself (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wuttke, N. (2021, April). Drawing in the Field – Of intimacy, power inversions and loosing oneself. Paper presented at SPA Biennial 2021: Interrogating Inequalities, Vitual

This paper is based on one-year drawing the daily life of a public tertiary hospital in Myanmar. It explores the intimacy drawing affords one with the field, new and uncommon power relations that emerge when drawing in a hierarchical space such as a... Read More about Drawing in the Field – Of intimacy, power inversions and loosing oneself.

Registering the everyday state in India via the Right to Information Act, 2005 (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Venkat, V. (2021, March). Registering the everyday state in India via the Right to Information Act, 2005. Paper presented at Registering The Everyday: Documents, Bureaucracy, And The Socio-Legal (Socio-Legal Studies Association, Annual Conference 2021), Cardiff, UK

Removed from Conflict? Researching the daily life of a Yangon hospital against the backdrop of Myanmar's past and present violence (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wuttke, N. (2021, March). Removed from Conflict? Researching the daily life of a Yangon hospital against the backdrop of Myanmar's past and present violence. Paper presented at ASA 2021: RESPONSIBILITY, St Andrews (Online)

Myanmar is facing many internal conflicts, amongst them one of the longest active civil wars. The country is furthermore facing genocide charges against the Rohinga. Following a military coup in 1962 its population was suffering under a violent, xeno... Read More about Removed from Conflict? Researching the daily life of a Yangon hospital against the backdrop of Myanmar's past and present violence.

Waiting to Wait: Exiled Time, Sacred Landscapes and Struggles to Return in the Bosnian Dinaric Highlands (SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Seminar Series 2020/21) (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2020, November). Waiting to Wait: Exiled Time, Sacred Landscapes and Struggles to Return in the Bosnian Dinaric Highlands (SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Seminar Series 2020/21). Presented at SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Seminar Series 2020/21, Online

Anthropological studies of forced displacement are increasingly attending to the structural and affective aspects of temporal arrangements. It seems that, as the Bosnian poet Mak Dizdar once wrote, ‘it’s time to think about time’. In this talk, I am... Read More about Waiting to Wait: Exiled Time, Sacred Landscapes and Struggles to Return in the Bosnian Dinaric Highlands (SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies Seminar Series 2020/21).

“Diversity, Culture and Transformation - All Injustices are Connected." Exploring economic, social, and political facets of poverty and investigating the ways in which organizations engage with communities, as well as how local authorities respond. (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Venkat, V. (2021, March). “Diversity, Culture and Transformation - All Injustices are Connected." Exploring economic, social, and political facets of poverty and investigating the ways in which organizations engage with communities, as well as how local authorities respond. Presented at Spring Workshop Series with SOAS: Training for Transformation and Participatory Methods for Engaged Research Fund (Open Society University Network), SOAS

Spatio-Temporal Proximities: Bosnian Dinaric Karst after Unhoming Ruptures (Cambridge Interfaith Programme Research Seminar) (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2020, October). Spatio-Temporal Proximities: Bosnian Dinaric Karst after Unhoming Ruptures (Cambridge Interfaith Programme Research Seminar). Presented at Cambridge Interfaith Programme (CIP) Research Seminar 2020/21, Online

As a religiously plural space, Bosnia was particularly vulnerable to the strong thrusts of ethno-religious homogenisation in the twentieth century. In this seminar, Dr HadžiMuhamedović considers the karst Field of Gacko in the south-eastern Bosnian h... Read More about Spatio-Temporal Proximities: Bosnian Dinaric Karst after Unhoming Ruptures (Cambridge Interfaith Programme Research Seminar).