Invited lectures
“Stories No One Wants to Hear: Refugeehood and Diasporic Unbelonging in Bosnian Chicago.” Invited presentation at “Displaced Detained Undeterred: A Creative/Critical Symposium,” Cornell University, April 21, 2023
“Future as predicament: On murder, protest, and political life after catastrophe in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina” Invited lecture in the Boas Seminar, Columbia University, March 29, 2023.
“Worker politics beyond nostalgia,” with Andrew Gilbert, invited presentation at the Symposium “Memory Culture in Flux: From Post-Yugoslavia to Conceptual Problems,” Ljubljana, Slovenia (remote participation), September 15, 2022
Invited keynote address at the conference “Ecologies of decay: Modern ruination in the global (post)socialist peripheries,” University College London, June 16-17, 2022.
“Haunted by Violence” with Saida Hodžić and Azra Hromadžić, Online event organized by Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN), the Refugee Research Network (RRN) and the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) at York University, March 11, 2022.
“Labors of Representation: A Bosnian Workers’ Movement and the Possibilities of Collaborative Graphic Ethnography” with Andrew Gilbert, Department of Anthropology Seminar, University of Bern (remote), March 1, 2022.
Participant in the roundtable “The Archive and the Nation: South Africa and Bosnia-Herzegovina” part of the symposium, “Photographs in conversation: An international colloquium on living archives,” Karlstad University, Sweden (online event), December 10, 2021.
“On Activism and Foolishness: Political Action in the Aftermath of Catastrophe,” Keynote lecture at the International Summer School, “Advancing democracy: empowering democratic practices in the Western Balkans,” Faculty of Political Science at the University of Sarajevo (remote), May 17, 2021.
“Saving Lake Nula: Postindustrial Natures and New Frontiers of Environmentalism in Postwar Bosnia Herzegovina,” with Yanna Jović for the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Territories of Extractivism, University of Ottawa, April 8, 2021.
“A city on the water without water: Politics of water infrastructures in postwar Sarajevo.” REEEC-VORL Brown Bag Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 11, 2021.
“Sarajevo’s Spring of Discontent: Public Safety, Youth Violence and Politics of Answerability in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina,” CAS Seminar at the University of Rijeka, February 18, 2021.
“"The Afterlife of the Socialist Santa: (Anti)nationalist politics and pedagogies in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina" DePaul University, INTerruptions Series. October 15, 2019.
“Angažovani strip – priča o Diti“ (Engaged Comics—the Story of Dita), Škola društvene pismenosti, Tuzla, July 18, 2019 with Boris Stapić and Andrew Gilbert
“Anthropology and the Graphic Form: Collaborative Research on Labor Politics in Post-Socialist Bosnia-Herzegovina,” co-presented with Andrew Gilbert (McMaster) and Boris Stapić, Ethnography Lab, University of Toronto, April 23, 2019.
“Labors of Representation: A Bosnian Workers’ Movement and the Possibilities of Collaborative Graphic Ethnography,” co-presented with Andrew Gilbert (McMaster), Colby College, April 17, 2019.
"The Afterlife of the Socialist Santa: Pedagogies, Aesthetics and Politics of 'Normal Life' in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina." Journée "Saint Nicolas et ses acolytes : Anthropologie des figures hivernales européennes,” Chaire Pascal Lamy - Anthropologie de l'Europe contemporaine, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, December 17, 2018.
“Fool’s Errand: The Ethics and Pragmatics of Political Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina.” Center for European Studies Speaker Series, Syracuse University, February 5, 2018.
Alumni speaker series at the UC Berkeley Institute for Eastern European, Eurasian and Slavic Studies (ISEEES), April 14, 2017
“On the distinction between a migrant and a refugee” Refugees and immigration: beyond borders and walls. Roundtable organized by Human Rights Research and Education Centre and the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa, October 13, 2015
“After the Uprising: precarity and political action in postwar Bosnia,” Anthropology Fieldwork Symposium, University of Ottawa, September 25, 2015.
"Who sows hunger, reaps rage": Precarious Labor and Popular Indignation in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Summer Teacher Institute at the University of Chicago, June 30, 2015.
Video recording available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sqg4CO_UM4
“Budućnost u kondicijonalu: nezaposlenost, prekaritet, i novi politički subjekat post-dejtonske BiH [Future conditional: unemployment, precarity and the new political subject of the post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina]. Filozofski fakultet. University of Banja Luka. May 19, 2015.
Conjuring “the People:” On Protest, Historical Imagination and the Problem of Popular Sovereignty in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. Sawyer Seminar on “Political Will” at Cornell University, March 17, 2015.
“Toying with the State: Parody and Political Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina,” Anthropology Colloquium, Cornell University, January 30, 2015.
“Looking for Justice on the Street: Rethinking Protest Politics and Popular Sovereignty in Bosnia-Herzegovina,” Tuesday INTervention Series, Sigma Iota Rho Honors Society for International Studies, DePaul University, May 27, 2014.
“Salvaging the Space of ‘Normality’: Afterlives of Socialist-era Symbols and Struggles for National Futures in postwar Bosnia,” Anthropology of Europe Workshop, University of Chicago, April 19, 2011.
Workshops
Protesting Power-sharing: Contesting Consociationalism in Divided Societies, organized by Prof John Nagle, Prof Simon Mabon, Prof Tamirace Fakhoury at Queens University, Belfast, May 5, 2022.
Hope, Ruination and Environmentalism, EASA Environmental Anthropology Network, University of Tallinn (remote event) in October 2021, for a project entitled “Saving Lake Nula: Postindustrial Natures and Post-Extractive Futures in Postwar Bosnia Herzegovina,” with Yanna Jović
Research Lab Associate at the Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Center at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Winter/Spring 2021, for a project entitled Socialist hydraulics: Anthropology of water infrastructures in Bosnia-Herzegovina
En Cours | In Progress Ethnographic Workshop, School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa, December 6, 2019 with a work in progress entitled “Fool’s Errand” from manuscript Future as Predicament: Political life After Catastrophe
Futures and Ruins: A Workshop on Crisis and Possibility, Duke University, Durham, NC, March 25-26, 2016.
Negotiating Socialities in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina, organized by Stef Jansen, Čarna Brković and Vanja Ćelebičić, Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz (Austria), October 16-17, 2014.
Political Desire in/of Europe: Sites, Subjects and Forms of Politics, organized by Dace Dzenovska and Nicholas De Genova, University of Oxford (UK), October 10-11, 2014.
Woodrow Wilson Center Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar, Seattle, August 12-15, 2011
Summer Research Lab Associate at the Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Center at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, June 28-August 5, 2011
“Hopeful Spaces of Critique: Post-Yugoslav Anthropology in the Coming Decade”—Invited Workshop Participant, The University of Chicago Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, April 30, 2010