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E.P. Thompson, the Railway and the Potential of Radical Care (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2020, July). E.P. Thompson, the Railway and the Potential of Radical Care. Paper presented at Race and Law in the Time of COVID-19, Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law, SOAS University of London

War, Memory and the Equivocations of Bernard Fall (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Innes, M. A. (2020, June). War, Memory and the Equivocations of Bernard Fall. Paper presented at BISA Conference 2020, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

Bernard Fall (1926-1967) cuts an intriguing figure in the annals of American history. He produced an extraordinary volume of writing – seven books and 200 articles – over the course of a life cut tragically, prematurely short while on patrol with U.S... Read More about War, Memory and the Equivocations of Bernard Fall.

Thinking like Tumbleweeds: Bodily Genres and the Vitality of Beings at Large (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S., Heathcote, G., Hamzić, V., & Jones, E. (2020, June). Thinking like Tumbleweeds: Bodily Genres and the Vitality of Beings at Large. Presented at RAI2020: Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future, SOAS University of London

Short abstract:
We invite you to think about and with tumbleweeds, but also to think like tumbleweeds. How can we include tumbleweeds to revisit the work tumbling away from the hegemonic scripts of what it means to be (non)human? We welcome papers... Read More about Thinking like Tumbleweeds: Bodily Genres and the Vitality of Beings at Large.

Worldings of "Us" and of Tumbleweeds: On Spillage and Matter in a Messy, Intersubjective Here (and Elsewhere) (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2020, June). Worldings of "Us" and of Tumbleweeds: On Spillage and Matter in a Messy, Intersubjective Here (and Elsewhere). Paper presented at Thinking Like Tumbleweeds: Bodily Genres and the Vitality of Beings at Large, RAI2020: Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future, SOAS University of London

Thinking along with tumbleweeds, this paper proposes an ontoepistemic perspective on spillages and mattering in human and non-human worldings that challenges recent resurgences, in anthropological and other social theory, of a dialectical divide betw... Read More about Worldings of "Us" and of Tumbleweeds: On Spillage and Matter in a Messy, Intersubjective Here (and Elsewhere).

Myanmar and the Rohingya (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2020, May). Myanmar and the Rohingya. Presented at SAIS and SOAS Faculty Panel: Conflict and Migration in Times of COVID-19, Bologna, Italy and London, UK (international virtual webinar)

The Fascination of Islam (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Contadini, A., & de Lara, J. (2020, May). The Fascination of Islam. Presented at Arts in Isolation, Online

Professor Anna Contadini takes us through an evocative journey to discover the fascination and curiosity that Islamic art and intellectual thought inspired in the pre-modern European thinkers and scholars, and how that fascination—led by wonder and a... Read More about The Fascination of Islam.

Hydrous Bodies, Fluid Domains: Thinking Gender beyond the Human (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S., & Heathcote, G. (2020, March). Hydrous Bodies, Fluid Domains: Thinking Gender beyond the Human. Paper presented at 61st Annual ISA Convention (Panel: Feminism and Materialism in Internaonal Relations), Honolulu, Hawaii

How might water matter in accounts of human and non-human relations? Drawing in material from the ontological turn in anthropology, including complex encounters with the ocean, glaciers and rivers, alongside indigenous and legal non-human subjectivit... Read More about Hydrous Bodies, Fluid Domains: Thinking Gender beyond the Human.

Worldings that Spill and that Matter (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2020, March). Worldings that Spill and that Matter. Paper presented at Feminism and Materialism in International Relations, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Honolulu, HI, USA

Against the rise of a whole host of new takes on the primacy of the ontological in solving ostensibly epistemological questions—evidenced, for example, in certain expositions of the ontological turn in social anthropology, the speculative turn in ‘co... Read More about Worldings that Spill and that Matter.

Toolkit: Ethiopia and Amharic Cinema (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Thomas, M. W. (2020, March). Toolkit: Ethiopia and Amharic Cinema. Presented at Decolonising Film and Screen Studies Nigeria Workshop, University of Lagos

A commercially viable Amharic-language film industry emerged in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2002. The industry depends on theatrical releases inside Ethiopia to make viable profits. This economic model encouraged the opening of privately-run, single scr... Read More about Toolkit: Ethiopia and Amharic Cinema.

One Belt, One Road and Rewriting History in Asia (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2020, February). One Belt, One Road and Rewriting History in Asia. Presented at Aberystwyth University History Seminar, Aberystwyth

Lecture on the book Iran and Palestine (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alavi, S. A. (2020, January). Lecture on the book Iran and Palestine. Presented at Lecture on Iran and Palestine, University of Oxford

From Saving Buddhism from (Corrupt) Buddhists to Preserving Buddhism from Islam: the Relationship Between Religion and 'National' Identity in Precolonial and Postcolonial Myanmar (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2019, November). From Saving Buddhism from (Corrupt) Buddhists to Preserving Buddhism from Islam: the Relationship Between Religion and 'National' Identity in Precolonial and Postcolonial Myanmar. Paper presented at Religion and State Ideology in the Middle East and Asia, Oriental Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

Palestinian Cause and Iran (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alavi, S. A. (2019, November). Palestinian Cause and Iran. Presented at Seminar on Palestinian Cause and Iran, University of Aberdeen

Migration (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V., & Thomas, C. (2019, November). Migration. Presented at Lunch Roundtable, IGLP Retreat, Chatham, Cape Cod, MA, USA