Conference Presentations
As paper presenter
“A self-devouring state: Towards a genealogy of the state power in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina” EASA Anthropologies of State Network (AnthroState) conference “Future States,” Rīga Stradiņš University August 30-31, 2023 (paper accepted)
“Life and death on the Drina,” 2023 CES Meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, June 27-29 (proposal submitted and accepted as a part of the panel entitled “Life and death on the river: between vitalism and necropolitics in the Balkans” (paper accepted)
“Graphic Ethnography and Experiments in Urban Anthropology” with Andrew Gilbert, at the biannual meeting of the German Anthropological Association, University of Bremen, September 27 through October 1, 2021.
“Saving Lake Nula: Post-industrial Natures and New Frontiers of Environmentalism in Post-war Bosnia Herzegovina” (co-authored with Yanna Jović) for 2020 CES conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, June 22-24, 2021.
“Water in the Wake of a War: Lessons in Infrastructure from Postwar Sarajevo,” Waterworlding: Reflecting on Multiple Waters, Institute for European Ethnology, and Cultural Studies, Philipps-University of Marburg, June 17-19, 2021.
“Water in the Wake of a War: Lessons in Infrastructure from Postwar Sarajevo,” for EASA 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal, July 21-24, 2020. (conference moved online due to COVID-19)
“Saving Lake Nula: Post-industrial Natures and New Frontiers of Environmentalism in Post-war Bosnia Herzegovina” (co-authored with Yanna Jović) for 2020 CES conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, June 22-24, 2020. (conference rescheduled; abstract resubmitted)
“Water in the Wake of a War: Tales of Terror, Breakdown and Hope from (Post)War Sarajevo” Joint Meeting of CASCA and American Anthropological Association, Vancouver, BC. Canada
“Liberty Leading the People: Parodies and Ironies of Political Tradition in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina” 50th Annual ASEEES Convention, Boston, Massachusetts, December 6 - 9, 2018.
“Labors of Representation: A Bosnian Workers’ Movement and the Possibilities of Graphic Ethnography” Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, San Jose, California, November 14-18, 2018.
“The horror of that (and those) left behind: Valences of emptiness in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina” submitted as a part of a panel “Faces of Emptiness,” (co-organized with Dace Dzenovska), 2018 EASA Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, August 14-17, 2018.
“An archive to build a future: on the recovery and rediscovery of the history of socialist associations in contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina” submitted as a part of a panel “Implicated by the Archive: The Political Work of Activist Archives” (co-organized with Thushara Hewage), for the 2018 CASCA Conference, Santiago de Cuba, May 16-20, 2018.
“On (not) believing in the revolution (anymore): specters of transformative politics in postwar and postsocialist Bosnia Herzegovina,” invited presentation on panel “The Beginnings and the Ends of Revolution (II): The Legacy of the Russian Revolution and Emancipatory Action,” Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November 29-December 3, 2017.
“An archive to build a future: Political imagination and the emancipatory traces of Yugoslav socialism,” submitted as a part of the panel “After Yugoslavia: Histories of the Future,” 2017 ASEEES Convention, Chicago, Illinois, November 9-12, 2017.
“Post-Socialist Property and Post-Fordist Futures: The Case of the Bosnian Detergent Factory "Dita," 2017 CASCA-IUAES Conference, University of Ottawa, May 2-7, 2017.
“Politics and Catastrophe: Reflections on the “Crisis” of liberalism from the Postsocialist Balkans,” AES Spring Conference on “Exposure,” Stanford University, March 30-April 1, 2017.
“The Future of Postsocialist Critique” (Co-authored with Dace Dzenovska), 2017 Soyuz Symposium, Indiana University, March 3-4, 2017.
“When All That Is Solid Does Not Melt into Air: The Materiality of Future-Making in the Bosnian Detergent Factory ‘Dita,’” In the Panel “Futures in the Making” Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, MN, November 16-20, 2016.
“When all that is solid does not melt into air: the materiality of political struggle in the Bosnian Detergent Factory “Dita.” In the panel: “'Works that matter (not): valuing productivity through and against the market',” Ivan Rajković and Andre Thiemann, 2016 EASA Conference, Milan, Italy. July 20-23, 2016.
“On Labor, Occupation and Other Not-Quite-National Things: The Case of Detergent Factory “Dita” in Tuzla” Association for the Study of Nationalities, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, April 14-16, 2016.
“Conjuring “the people”: protest politics and the problem of popular sovereignty in postwar Bosnia” in the SOYUZ sponsored panel “Sovereign Returns: Genealogies of Power after Communism,” Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, Denver, CO, November 18-22, 2015.
“Liberty Leading the People: Parody and the Promise of Democratic Tradition in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina.” –Past the Post: Theorizing the Post-Post-Soviet, University of Amsterdam, June 10-12, 2015.
“’He Who Sows Hunger, Reaps Rage’: On Justice, Indignation and the New Collective Subject of the Bosnian Uprising” in the panel “Indignant Peripheries: Protest Politics, Historical Imagination and Contested Futures of New Europe” (Organizer), Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, San Antonio, TX, December 3-7, 2014.
“Tears for Tito: Affective Publics and the Politics of Mourning for Yugoslavia”—46th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, San Antonio, Texas, November 20-23, 2014.
“Tears for Tito: What do post-Yugoslavs cry for when then watch the footage of Marshal Tito's Funeral?” — Association for the Study of Nationalities Convention, Columbia University, New York, April 24-26, 2014.
“Liberty Leading the People: Parody and the Promise of Democratic Tradition in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina” — Twenty-First International Conference of the Council for European Studies, Washington, DC, March 14-16, 2014.
“The Bosnian Babylution: Political Impasse and Popular Justice After Dayton Accords” — SOYUZ Annual Symposium, Miami University Ohio, February 28-March 1, 2014.
“Can Muslims and Croats Live Together? Two Perspectives from Central Bosnia,” in the panel “Beyond National(ist) Common Sense: Critical Ethnographies of Contemporary Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union” (Co-organized with Dace Dzenovska) — Association for the Study of Nationalities Convention, Columbia University, New York, April 18-20, 2013.
“A Zombie State: On the Politics of Perpetual Deferral in Postwar Bosnia,” in the panel “Interrogating the State” (Co-organized with João Felipe Gonçalves) ” — APLA and AES Joint Spring Meeting “Anthropologies of Conflict in the New Millennium,” Chicago, IL, April 11-13, 2012.
“‘Tito Did Not Lock up Nationalists for Nothing’: Reconfiguration of Power in Postwar and Postsocialist Bosnia-Herzegovina” — Soyuz Annual Symposium, Columbia University, New York, March 22-23, 2013.
“Politics of Not-Yet: Sincerity, Doubt and Street Protest in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina,” in the panel “Reluctant Activists: Sincerity and Doubt in Emergent Forms of Public Life” (Co-organized with Natalia Roudakova) —Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 14-18, 2012.
“A Zombie State: On the Politics of Perpetual Deferral in Postwar Bosnia” — Society for Cultural Anthropology Meeting: Life and Death, a Conversation. Providence, Rhode Island, May 11-12, 2012.
“People of Action: Socialist History and the Ethos of Civic Engagement in Postwar Bosnia” —Soyuz Annual Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 23-24, 2012.
“Of Glorious Pasts and Uncertain Futures: Memory, Local Development and Intergenerational Encounters in a Central Bosnian Town,” in a panel entitled “Generational dislocations: state, memory and the politics of the future in post-Yugoslav spaces” (Organizer) –Nineteenth International Conference of the Council for European Studies, Boston, March 22-24, 2012.
“Yugonostalgia on Wheels: Commemorating Marshal Tito across Post-Yugoslav Borders” —fY+20: New perspectives on former Yugoslavia, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, March 15-17, 2012.
“The Fear of Standing Still: Protracted Crisis and Productive Powers of Inertia in Postwar Bosnia,” in Invited Panel “Stakes of Crisis” organized by Janet Roitman and Mary Murrell— Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Canada, November 16-20, 2011.
"I Too Wrote the Graffiti!":(Mis)Representation, Accountability and Political Efficaciousness of Humor in Contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina” —Eighteen International Conference of the Council for European Studies, Barcelona, Spain, June 18-20, 2011.
“Wither the State? Crisis of Youth and Longing for the System in the Post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina”—Liberal Democracy, Authoritarian Pasts and the Legacy of 1989: Comparative Workshop on Recent History of Political and Social Thought in East Central Europe, Prague, May 20-22, 2011.
“State(s) of Predicament: Answerable Politics and the Crisis of Youth in Postwar Bosnia”—Twenty years after (the) Split, Thirty years after Prishtina, Ten years after Tanushevci: Beginnings, Endings, Continuities and Discontinuities in former Yugoslavia and the Successor States, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 29-30, 2011.
“Future as a Predicament: Answerable Politics and the Crisis of Youth in Postwar Bosnia”— Soyuz Annual Symposium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 11-12, 2011.
“Fools, Failures and the Crisis of the Future in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina”—Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 17-21, 2010.
“After Normal and Absurd: Djed Mraz, Vučko and the Struggle for National Futures in Postwar/Postsocialist Bosnia-Herzegovina”—Rethinking Late Socialism: Political Legitimacy in Eastern Europe since the 1960s, Sarajevo, Faculty of Political Science, June 23-25, 2010.
“Limits of In/Action: Everyday Politics of Dis/Engagement in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina”—Joint PhD Symposium on Southeastern Europe, London School of Economics, London, June 18 2010.
"’Lying’ Ethnographic Interlocutors and the Social Life of Rumor in an Ethnically Divided Town in Postwar Bosnia” – Graduate Student Conference on Uncertainty: Ambiguities and Doubt in Knowledge Production, Stanford University, April 23-24, 2010.
“Waiting for the Revolution: Activism, Apathy and the Dramas of History in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina”— Seventeenth International Conference of the Council for European Studies, Montreal: April 15-17 2010.
“Djed Mraz and Vučko in Exile: Social Life and Death of Yugoslav-era Symbols in Postwar Bosnia”—Soyuz Annual Symposium, Northwestern University, Evanston, April 9-10, 2010.
“Postsocialism in Exile: Memory, Identity and Nostalgia among Former Yugoslavs in Chicago” —Soyuz Annual Symposium, Bryant University, March 3-5 2006.
As panel discussant
“Double-edged Words: The politics of Skaz, Stiob, and the Anekdot” invited discussant for the panel organized by Maria Sidorkina, 54th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies in Chicago, IL November 10-13, 2022
“Moral Economies of Risk and Obligation after State Socialism” invited discussant for the panel organized by Morgan Liu, 54th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies in Chicago, IL November 10-13, 2022
“Future Pasts” invited discussant at the virtual conference “(Post)Socialist Horizons: Is Socialism Back?” University of California, Berkeley, August 4, 2021.
“After Postsocialism?: New Ethnographies Framing the Future,” invited discussant for the panel organized by Cassandra Hartblay and Tamar Shirinian, 49th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies in Chicago, IL, Friday, November 10, 2017
“Borders and Transgressions,” invited discussant for the panel organized by Azra Hromadžić, Association for the Study of Nationalities Convention, Columbia University, New York, April 18-20, 2013.
As roundtable participant
“EU joint resolution on totalitarianism: utopia or dystopia?” organized by Julie Hemment, 2020 CES Meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland, June 22-24, 2020
“Making Ethnography in Graphic Form”, organized by Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan, 2019 Joint AAA-CASCA Meeting, Vancouver, BC
"Book Discussion: School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in Latvia by Dace Dzenovska," 50th Annual ASEEES Convention, Boston, Massachusetts, December 6 - 9, 2018.
“New Perspectives on Bosnian Histories and Politics” invited roundtable participant, Association for the Study of Nationalities Convention, Columbia University, New York, April 24-26, 2014.