Safet Hadžimuhamedović
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Research Student
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Department of Anthropology
Goldsmiths, University of London
London SE14 6NW
Supervisors: Sari Wastell; Frances Pine
Research interests
Does Bosnia Speak?: Memory and Conversation in the Sacred Landscape
Through my previous work, I have inquired into ‘knowledge made intangible’, sacred Bosnian artefacts systematically concealed by historiographies and other instruments of violent politics. By looking at the expatriated corpus of Medieval Bosnian manuscripts and the contested narrative of a highly symbolic wooden staff, I have challenged the concept of intangibility, reading it as a characteristic of materiality eviscerated from the cultural reality of its source community.
My doctoral research at Goldsmiths builds upon that premise by mapping and interrogating the significantly more resilient nature of ritual celebrations performed across the Bosnian landscape and grounded in the many domestic traditions. I argue that Bosnians historically configured landscape into modi communicandi applicable across political and religious boundaries. My field research and related film work follow the abovementioned celebrations to understand the strength of their memory.
I hold an MPhil degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and BA degrees in Art History and Sociology from the University of Sarajevo and Kenyon College. I am an alumnus of Chevening, Open Society Institute and US Department of State programmes.
My doctoral research at Goldsmiths is supervised by Dr Sari Wastell and Dr Frances Pine and funded through the post of assistant researcher on the ‘Bosnian Bones, Spanish Ghosts’ Project led by Dr Sari Wastell.Selected publications
Author, Corpuses and Corpses: Mediaeval Bosnian Manuscripts, in Zine (Issue 4), The Cambridge Student, CUSU, Cambridge, 2010
Author, Bosnian Kingdom Trails, (also available in Bosnian and Spanish), Mozaik Foundation, Sarajevo, 2010
Assistant Curator, Sápmi: Collections and Connections from Northern Europe, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, February 2010
Author and Curator with Aida Bucalovic, Medieval Bosnian Manuscripts Exhibition, Brusa Bezistan, Museum of Sarajevo, March 2010 – also exhibited at the International Conference on Unity and Plurality in Europe in Mostar (2009), Youth Heritage Summer Camp ‘Cuprija’ in Stolac (2009) and the Museum of Travnik (2011).
Author, Destinies of the Medieval Bosnian Manuscripts (film), International Forum Bosnia, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 2009
Author, Tracking Changes: Visual pollution – the Case of Sarajevo (art installation), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 2009
Author, Analysis of Representations of ‘the Other’ in the Nazi Poster of Western Balkans, presented at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, December 2008
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