Bosnian Landscapes Anthropology of Time and Space
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Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedović

I am an anthropologist of landscape and religion, but my work is more closely framed through interests in time and temporality, home, inter-faith relations, 'syncretic' cosmologies, agency and affect. Over the past seven years, I have conducted most of my long-term fieldwork in Bosnia, with stints of research in the Basque Country and Palestine/Israel. My book Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landscape ​(2018) delves into the post-war echoes of inter-communal proximities and syncretic seasonal celebrations in the southeastern Bosnian highlands. It travels through spatio-temporal fractures and affective articulations of political resistance, to understand the multiple codes of waiting for the return of cosmological characters shared by local Christians, Gurbeti Roma and Muslims. I have also written on various other aspects of sacral landscapes, as well as the historicity and political agency of 'nonhuman' beings, the labyrinthine ICTY archives, displacement and home. See, for example, ​Post-Home: Dwelling on Loss, Belonging and Movement ​(2019, special issue of ​Ethnoscripts, co-edited with M. Grujić).

Before attaining a doctoral degree in social anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London and an MPhil degree in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, I have received BA degrees in history of art and sociology from the University of Sarajevo and Kenyon College. After some initial resistance, I have settled into social anthropology as an exciting area of social inquiry and now like to think that there is no subject, form of expression, or spatio-temporal dimension, beyond the scope of our post-disciplinary concerns (as long as we also critically carry the burden of our heritage). 

I currently as a Research Associate in Inter-Faith work Relations with the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme, at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. I also teach and co-convene (since 2019) the
Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage ​summer school at SOAS University of London. From 2018 to 2019, I convened and taught Issues in Anthropology of Gender ​(MA course), Anthropology of Gender ​(BA course) at SOAS University of London. From 2016 to 2019, I convened and taught Anthropology of Landscapes (BA); ​Anthropology of ​Kinship (BA), Anthropology of Islam (BA) and Social Theories (BA), but also contributed to the Foundation Year in Arts and Humanities; Peoples, Culture and Language; Human Challenges and Dissertations. Before Bristol, I convened and taught various courses on anthropological approaches to methods, qualitative research, religion, gender, politics, economics and social change at Goldsmiths, SOAS (both University of London) and Goethe University Frankfurt.

My principal ongoing project considers sinking rivers, cosmology and nationalism in Bosnia, but I am organising several other concomitant projects, Chronotopic Materialities ​(from 2018, with Dr Magda Buchczyk), Distemporalities ​(from 2019, with Dr Vanja Hamzić), ​
Thinking like Tumbleweeds (from 2019, with Dr Gina Heathcote, Dr Vanja Hamzić and Dr Emily Jones). I am also contributing to Dr Gina Heathcote's project on feminist approaches to oceans. Previously, I worked on the ERC-funded project Bosnian Bones, Spanish Ghosts: ‘Transitional Justice’ and the Legal Shaping of Memory after Two Modern Conflicts, led by Dr Sari Wastell (2010-2013). Also, in 2008, I co-founded with Aida Bucalović the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research of Visual Culture in Sarajevo, which, amongst other activities, produced a very successful facsimile exhibition of manuscripts dispersed from mediaeval Bosnia.

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​anthropology of syncretism, proximity and mixture; time and temporality; home, non-home and post-home; anthropology of space, place and landscape; water ontologies; affect and subjectivity; loneliness; waiting; nonhumans; agency; ritual and ritual kinship; gender, nationalism and ethnicity; post-conflict environments; borders and migration; memory; phenomenological approaches to languages; visual anthropology; critical approaches to archives; research ethics; Bosnia, post-Yugoslav, post-Ottoman and post-socialist geographies; nomadic Roma trajectories in the Balkans; Palestine, Israel, the Basque Country


2019 - ongoing         Senior Teaching Fellow in Social Anthropology
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                                    Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS University of London

                                    Convener & Lecturer: Issues in the Anthropology of Gender (MA); Anthropology of Gender (BA)
                                    Co-convener: Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage (summer school)
2016 - 2019               Teaching Fellow in Social Anthropology  
                                    Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol 
                                    Convener & Lecturer: Anthropology of Landscapes; Kinship; Anthropology of Islam; Social Theories
                                    
Teaching: Peoples; Culture and Language; Human Challenges; Dissertations; Foundation Year in Arts
​                                    and Humanities

2014-2015                 Visiting Scholar  
                                    Faculty of Social Sciences, 
Goethe University Frankfurt 
                             Co-convener and lecturer with Marija Grujić: 
Encountering Gender and Religion: Theoretical and    
                                    Methodological Implications
(MA)

2014-2015                 Associate Lecturer in Social Anthropology 
                                   Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London 
                                   Anthropology of Religion

2013-2014             Lecturer in Social Anthropology
                                   Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London 
                                   
Politics, Economics and Social Change
                                   
With contribution to: Anthropology and Gender Theory 

2014                          Teaching Fellow
                                   Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, SOAS
                            Qualitative and Case Study Research
2013                          Visiting Tutor in Social Anthropology
                                   Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London 
                                   Anthropological Methods

2010-2013 ​           Research Assistant
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                                  Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London
                                  Bosnian Bones, Spanish Ghosts - 'Transitional Justice' and the Legal Shaping of Memory after Two
                                  Modern Conflicts
, ERC-funded project led by Dr Sari Wastell
2008-2014              
Founder and Coordinator of Research Programmes
                                  Centre for Interdisciplinary Research of Visual Culture, International Forum Bosnia


2015                     PhD in Social Anthropology 
                            Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

2010                     MPhil in Social Anthropology 
                                  University of Cambridge, UK

2008                         BA Hons in History of Art
                                  University of Sarajevo, Bosnia

2008                         BA Hons in Sociology
                                  University of Sarajevo, Bosnia

2006                     Academic Programme Certificate in Sociology and History of Art
                                  Kenyon College, USA


2018                         Finalist for Outstanding Teaching Award - University of Bristol  
2014-2015               Civil Society Scholar Award -
Open Society Foundations - funding for the research project    
                                  Corporeal Narratives: Gender, Politics and Religion in the Western Balkans

2010-2013               PhD scholarship - European Research Council - under the auspices of the Dr Sari Wastell's
​                                  project  Bosnian Bones, Spanish Ghosts, 'Transitional Justice' and the Legal Shaping of Memory after
​                                  Two Modern Conflicts

2010-2013
            PhD fee waiver - Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London
2011-2012               Research grant - Open Society Foundation – Global Supplementary Grant Programme
2012-2013               Research grant - Open Society Foundation – Global Supplementary Grant Programme
2013-2014              
Research grant - Open Society Foundation – Global Supplementary Grant Programme

2009-2010               MPhil scholarship - Cambridge Overseas Trust & Open Society Foundation & UK Foreign and  
                                  Commonwealth Office 

2007-2008              
Annual Academic Excellence Award - Federal Ministry of Education and Science, Bosnia
2006                        
Recognition for Contribution to Intercultural Dialogue - Kenyon College, USA
2005-2006               BA Exchange Programme Scholarship - US Department of State - 'Partnership for Learning'
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Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA), European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), Association for Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS), Centre for Interdisciplinary Research of Visual Culture (CIVK), International Forum Bosnia (IFB), Cambridge Heritage Research Group (HRG), Association for the Renewal of Civil Trust in the Municipality of Stolac, Open Anthropology Cooperative (OAC), SOAS Centre for Ottoman Studies (SCOS)
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