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Lonely at Home: On the Protracted Social Isolation in Bosnia. Inaugural talk for the Xenia Series (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. Lonely at Home: On the Protracted Social Isolation in Bosnia. Inaugural talk for the Xenia Series. Presented at Xenia Series, Online

This is not another academic conversation about the coronavirus, yet it may as well start from the utter disorientation experienced by some of us after the hitherto unconscious luxuries of movement and social proximity came to an abrupt stop. Whilst... Read More about Lonely at Home: On the Protracted Social Isolation in Bosnia. Inaugural talk for the Xenia Series.

Three Futures in a Distemporalised Bosnian Landscape (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2019, September). Three Futures in a Distemporalised Bosnian Landscape. Paper presented at What Futures Belong to our Present? Anthropology on the Configurations of Imagination, Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Distemporalities in Waiting for Elijah: Book Launch (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2019, August). Distemporalities in Waiting for Elijah: Book Launch. Presented at On Time: Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, University of Helsinki

Sensing the Past (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2019, June). Sensing the Past. Presented at 'Turbulence': Anthropology in London Day 2019, University College London, Department of Anthropology

Chronotopic Materialities (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S., & Buchczyk, M. (2018, September). Chronotopic Materialities. Presented at ASA18: Sociality, Matter, and the Imagination: Re-creating Anthropology, University of Oxford

How do objects - their placements, textures, routes and traces - come to encapsulate the bonding of time and space? And, to what ends? What claims do they make and what novel directions do they indicate? What is the breadth of such objects' sensorial... Read More about Chronotopic Materialities.

Wayward, Hidden Transcripts: Sinking River as Methodology (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2018, June). Wayward, Hidden Transcripts: Sinking River as Methodology. Paper presented at Liquidscapes: Tales and Tellings of Water Worlds and Fluid States, Dartington Hall

Although James Scott (see 1990) was referring to the kinds of human resistance that come about in hegemonic situations, I would like to claim his concept of a ‘hidden transcript’ for the insurrectionary practices of both ‘humans’ and ‘nonhumans’ in t... Read More about Wayward, Hidden Transcripts: Sinking River as Methodology.

Chronotopic Yearnings: Home after Violence in Bosnia (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2017, June). Chronotopic Yearnings: Home after Violence in Bosnia. Paper presented at Walls, Borders and Bridges: Law and Society in an Inter-Connected World, International Meeting, Law and Society Association, Mexico City, Mexico

Waiting to Wait: Time, Religion and Politics in a Bosnian Landscape (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2017, May). Waiting to Wait: Time, Religion and Politics in a Bosnian Landscape. Paper presented at 'Time and Religion', Biennial Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

This paper unpacks the multiple codes of waiting in the Field of Gacko, a politically polarised landscape in the south-eastern Bosnian highlands. In the Field’s cosmology, the harvest festival of St Elijah’s Day marked a moment of condensed sociality... Read More about Waiting to Wait: Time, Religion and Politics in a Bosnian Landscape.

Time and Home (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2017, February). Time and Home. Presented at Bristol Archaeology and Anthropology Research Seminar (BAARS), Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol

A River of Many Names (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2017, January). A River of Many Names. Presented at Staff Research Festival, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol

Phantom Landscape: Home as a Lucid Dream (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2015, July). Phantom Landscape: Home as a Lucid Dream. Paper presented at IUAES Inter-Congress 2015 'Re-imagining Anthropological and Sociological Boundaries', Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

Post-Home(Land): Being and Belonging after Spatial and Temporal Alienation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S., & Grujić, M. (2015, July). Post-Home(Land): Being and Belonging after Spatial and Temporal Alienation. Presented at Re-imagining Anthropological and Sociological Boundaries, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Inter-Congress, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

What is home after home? Does the dwelling continue to dwell? How do we speak about home? How does home speak us? This panel discusses how awareness and articulations of ‘home’ might change after we come to inhabit spaces and times that are ‘not home... Read More about Post-Home(Land): Being and Belonging after Spatial and Temporal Alienation.

The Epic Unconscious: Affective Residues of an Embodied Grammar (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2014, October). The Epic Unconscious: Affective Residues of an Embodied Grammar. Paper presented at Why Discourse Matters? (Panel: The Embodied Discourses: Discursive Positioning in Narrations), Goethe University, Frankfurt

Gusle, a peculiar one-string instrument traditional to the Dinaric mountain range, is an apt heuristic device for the unravelling of some spatial, temporal and discursive Balkan intersections. The instrument’s inception is tied to epic poetry and its... Read More about The Epic Unconscious: Affective Residues of an Embodied Grammar.

Listening Landscapes, Speaking Memories (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2013, August). Listening Landscapes, Speaking Memories. Presented at Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds: The 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, University of Manchester

Can landscapes listen? Can landscapes speak? What is their relationship with memory? Arguing for an ‘Actor-Network Theory’, Bruno Latour proposes that ‘non-humans’ may have an active role, and not be ‘simply the hapless bearers of symbolic projection... Read More about Listening Landscapes, Speaking Memories.

Valleys, Myths and Territories: Bosnian town of Gacko between Cosmology and Violence (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2013, August). Valleys, Myths and Territories: Bosnian town of Gacko between Cosmology and Violence. Paper presented at Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds: The 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, University of Manchester

In Gacko, a small town on the south-eastern border of Bosnia, layers of history and cosmology operate towards the imagination of two markedly different places – of landscaped memories and memorialised landscapes. This paper questions the vitality of... Read More about Valleys, Myths and Territories: Bosnian town of Gacko between Cosmology and Violence.