I have presented my research across Europe and North America, and organized or co-organized conferences and workshops in Germany, Canada, the US, the UK, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Below is a partial list.
2024 Presented talk “Multimodality, Activation, Intervention: Adventures in Design + Anthropology” at Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, 13 December.
2024 Co-organized three workshops in Berlin with Judith Albrect, Tomás Criado, Ignacio Farías, Carla J Meier and Farina Piersig as part of the Multimodal Appreciations research project. The first workshop featured presentations from Gilles Aubrey, Jennifer Deger, Susanne Eichner, Jorge Nunez and Maka Suarez, Rachel Karafistan, Julien McHardy, Maple Razsa, Jara Rocha, and Claudio Sopranzetti (10-13 January); the second featured Thiago Pinto Barbosa, Anne S. Chahine, Melanie Garland, Imad Gebrael, and Max Haiven (25-26 April); and the third Gabriele Alex, Vivian Berghahn, Alexa Färber, Ana Ivasiuc, Dimitra Kofti, Simone Pfeifer, and Dimitrios Theodossopoulos (2-3 May).
2024 Presented talk (with Larisa Kurtović) entitled “Reclaiming Dita: A Collaborative Graphic Ethnography of Factory Worker Mobilization in Bosnia-Herzegovina,” organized by the Sociology and Anthropology Graduate Students Association and the Laboratory for Engaged Research, University of Ottawa, 28 February.
2024 Invited talk on design anthropology at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule für Kunst und Design, Halle, 9 January.
2023 Presented paper “Attunement, Activation, and Other Adventures in Ethnography” on panel “Anderes Wissen & anders wissen: Erweiterung ethnographischer Methodologie?” for “Experiment Ethnographie,” a conference of the Gesellschaft für Ethnographie, Berlin, 08 December.
2023 Keynote address “Multimodal Appreciation” for event “Multimodal interventions: Critical and creative engagements with migrations, border and violence,” organised by Pedro F. Neto, Nina Amelung, and Ildikó Z. Plájás at Instituto de Ciencias Sociais Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon 28 November.
2023 Invited discussant for film screen and panel discussion entitled “Building (with) Nature,” organized by Michaela Büsse for Berlin Science Week, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, 3 November.
2023 Invited discussant for workshop “Feeling Competitive — Sport as Affective Practice,” organized by Julia Wambach, Max Jack & Helen Ahner, Max Planck Society for Human Development, Berlin, 13 July.
2023 Guest lecturer (virtual) for research seminar “Critical Refugee Studies” taught by Čarna Brković, University of Mainz, 6 July.
2023 Invited participant in symposium “Interstitial Infrastructures: Labs, Studios, & Other Interdisciplinary Experiments” at ReCNTR, Leiden University, 22 June.
2023 Presented paper “Beyond Text: Collaboration, Intervention, and Multimodal Anthropology” at Seminar Series of the Department of Anthropology, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, 12 April.
2023 Co-organizer of “Multimodal Evaluations and Appreciations,” a joint meeting of the Digital Curatorial Collective of the Society for Cultural Anthropology and the Multimodal Appreciations research group of the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology at Humboldt University, Berlin, 14 March.
2023 Invited guest lecturer (virtual) on multimodal ethnography and comics for course Art and Anthropology, taught by Jonas Tinius at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milano. 3 March.
2023 Presented paper “Multimodal Affordances: The Political and Ethnographic Potential of Graphic Ethnography” at research colloquium of the Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin, 31 January
2022 Presented paper “Graphic Affordances” at workshop “Researching and publishing strategies for multimodal interventions in the field of migration, borders, and security technologies” organized by Ildikó Plájás, Nina Amelung, and Pedro Neto and hosted by ReCNTR, Leiden, Netherlands, 6 October
2022 Presented paper (with Larisa Kurtović) “Worker politics beyond nostalgia” at workshop “Post Yugoslav Cultures of Memory,” part of the symposium “Memory Culture in Flux: From Post-Yugoslavia to Conceptual Problems” organized by Ana Hofman and Gal Kirn, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 15 September
2022 Invited participant in roundtable “On Research Trajectories, Locating Regimes and the Future of Anthropological Reflexivity,” part of Crosslocations Final Conference, Helsinki, Finland. 26 May. (with Gretchen Bakke, Čarna Brković, Keith Brown, Jane Cowan, Andrew Graan, Jessica Greenberg, and Elissa Helms)
2022 Presented paper (with Larisa Kurtović) “Labors of Representation: A Bosnian Workers’ Movement and the Possibilities of Collaborative Graphic Ethnography” at Anthropology Research Seminar, University of Bern, Switzerland. 1 March.
2021 Presented book (International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy) for podcast on the New Books Network, hosted by Christian Nielsen. 17 December
2021 Presented paper “On Some Affordances of Participatory Images” for book workshop “The Participatory Image” organized by the Critical Icono-Ethnography Lab, Basel, Switzerland. 19 November.
2021 Presented book (International Intervention and the Problem of Legitimacy) at a virtual talk hosted by the Center for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa. 9 November.
2021 Presented co-written research paper (with Larisa Kurtović) “Graphic Ethnography and Experiments in Urban Anthropology” on virtual panel “Towards a Multimodal Urban Anthropology” organized by Ignacio Farias and Tomas Criado for the DGSKA-Tagung 2021, 28 September.
2021 Presented paper “Experiments in Collaborative Graphic Ethnography” at the workshop “Anthropology beyond text? Experiments, devices and platforms in multimodal anthropology” organized by the Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology, Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University, Berlin. 22 July.
2021 Presented paper “Reimagining the anthropology of international intervention” on virtual panel “Beyond success and failure, the war on terror, and liberal peace: charting new directions for an anthropology of international intervention” co-organized by Andrew Gilbert and Susann Kassem for annual meeting of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK. 31 March.
2020 Co-organizer (with Hannah Quinn) of virtual roundtable “Doing Ethnography Now? Insights from Ethnography Labs and Centers” for Raising Our Voices event series of the American Anthropological Association (with Mike Fortun, Cassandra Hartblay, Kregg Hetherington, Farzaneh Hemmasi, Alissa Jordan, & George Marcus) 14 November.
2020 Collaborative multi-media panel “How Do We Work Together? Distribution, Political Labor, and Worker Struggles in Bosnia and Herzegovina” for Distribute 2020, Biannual Conference of Society for Cultural Anthropology and Society for Visual Anthropology (with Larisa Kurtović, Damir Arsenijević, Jasmina Husanović, Boris Stapić, Sanja Horić, Haris Husarić & Azra Jašarević) 8 May. An elaboration of how this panel can be used in teaching can be found here.
2020 Invited talk entitled “Labors of Representation: A Bosnian Workers’ Movement and the Possibilities of Collaborative Graphic Ethnography” at the Concordia Ethnography Lab, Montreal, QC. 21 February.
2019 Invited participant in roundtable “Making ethnography in graphic form: productive tensions, creative engagements, uncertain knowledges” for Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association. Reviewed by Society for Visual Anthropology. Vancouver, BC. November 21.
2019 Invited talk entitled “Anthropology and the Graphic Form: Collaborative Research and Labor Politics in Post-Socialist Bosnia-Herzegovina” at Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies. Geneva, Switzerland. 15 October.
2019 (with Larisa Kurtović and Boris Stapić) Invited talk entitled “Angažovani strip – priča o Diti,” Škola društvene pismenosti [“Engaged comics - the story of Dita,” School of Social Literacy]. Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 18 July.
2019 (with Larisa Kurtović and Boris Stapić) Invited talk entitled “Anthropology and the Graphic Form: Collaborative Research on Labor Politics in Post-Socialist Bosnia-Herzegovina” at University of Toronto Ethnography Lab. 23 April.
2019 (with Larisa Kurtović) Invited talk entitled “Labors of Representation: A Bosnian Workers’ Movement and the Possibilities of Collaborative Graphic Ethnography” at Colby College, Waterville, ME. 15 April.
2018 Invited research paper entitled “Worker Experiments in Humanitarian Politics” for Wenner Gren workshop entitled “Assessing the Anthropology of Humanitarianism: Ethnography, Impact, Critique” organized by Antonio de Lauri at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. 25 October.
2017 Research paper entitled “On the Edges of Anachronism” on panel “The Anthropology of Anachronism: On Historical Failure, Obsolescence, and Other Space-Times of Political Possibility” at annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC. 29 November.
2017 Research paper entitled “The Politics of Care after Mass Employment in Deindustrial Bosnia-Herzegovina” on panel “Making life and politics after Fordism” at annual meeting of Canadian Anthropology Society/International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Ottawa, ON. 4 May.
2016 Research paper entitled “Opening: Protest, Plenum: Closure” on panel “Political Inaugurations: Thinking the Effects of Popular Uprisings” at annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Minneapolis, MN. 17 November
2016 Research paper entitled “Street Protest, Tent Encampment, Factory Occupation, Hunger Strike: Worker Mobilization and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in a Bosnian City” on panel “Visions of futures from industrial workplaces: shop-floor reflexivities on work, political agency and social reproduction” at Annual Meeting of European Association of Social Anthropologists. Milan, Italy. 23 July.
2014 Invited panelist for roundtable entitled “Past, Presents and Futures of Post-Socialist Cultural Studies” at annual meeting of Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. San Antonio, TX. 21 November.
2013 Invited panelist for roundtable entitled “Nongovernmental Politics” at The Future of NGO Studies Conference, organized by the Northern Illinois University's Center for NGO Leadership and Development, Chicago, IL. 20 November.
2013 Organized workshop entitled "Towards an Anthropology of International Intervention" at McMaster University. Principle funding from the Wenner Gren Foundation. Hamilton, ON. 20-21 September.
2013 Closing keynote lecture for conference entitled “Perspectives in (post)conflict academia and society: Opening spaces for critically assessing and rethinking history and memory” jointly organized by the University of Zurich and the Human Rights Centre of University of Sarajevo. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 16 March.
2013 Invited panelist for roundtable entitled “Restraining the Toll of War and Violence” organized by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. 25 February.
2013 Invited talk entitled “Foreign Publicity, the Democratization Paradox, and the Limits of International Intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina” for Anthropology Department Colloquium, City University of New York Graduate Center. 22 February.
2013 Research paper entitled “Contesting Chronotopes: Spatio-temporal Frameworks and the Poverty of Political Possibility in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina” as part of panel “Pasts and Futures, Enemies and Friends” for conference “Relocating Borders: A Comparative Approach” Berlin, Germany. 13 January
2011 Invited talk entitled “Foreign Authority and the Limits of International Intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina” at Centre for South-East European Studies, Karl-Franz University of Graz, Austria. 7 June.
2010 Invited participant for workshop entitled “Research on State-building in the Western Balkans: Comparative Methodologies” at the London School of Economics. 10 December.
2010 Organizer of workshop entitled “European Interventions and State-Building in the Balkans” at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Principle funding from the European Commission. 21-23 October.
2010 Co-Organizer of workshop entitled “Hopeful Spaces of Critique: Post-Yugoslav Anthropology in the Coming Decade” sponsored by the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 30 April.
2010 Invited participant for workshop entitled “The Missionary Position: Processes of Ideological Entrepreneurship in Post-Conflict Societies” organized by the Peace Studies Program at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 23-24 April.
2008 Invited participant for workshop “Inside Practices of Peacebuilding and Statebuilding” hosted by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, Norway. 13-14, June.
2008 Invited participant for workshop entitled “Post-Conflict Peace Building: Connecting Research and Policy” hosted by the Program on States and Security at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, 25 January.
2007 Co-organizer of workshop entitled “Towards an Anthropology of Hope? Comparative Post-Yugoslav Ethnographies” funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation and the British Academy, University of Manchester, UK. 9-11 November. (with Stef Jansen, Jessica Greenberg, and Elissa Helms)
2005 Co-organizer of conference entitled “Politics and Society Ten Years after Dayton: Young Scholars Conference on the State of Social Science Research on Bosnia-Herzegovina,” hosted by the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. 10-13, November. (with Dino Abazović, Nerzuk Ćurak, Asim Mujkić, and Bodo Weber)