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Čarna Brković
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    • Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans
    • Managing Ambiguity
    • Negotiating Social Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Special issues
    • “Vernacular Humanitarianisms” Social Anthropology 31(1)
    • Peer Review as Intellectual Accompaniment, Emergent Conversation No. 16 PoLAR
    • “In the Name of the Daughter: Anthropology of Gender in Montenegro” COMPSEES 69(1)
    • “Grassroots responses to mass migration in Europe” Intersections 7(2)
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Čarna Brković

Talks

2024 Racialized Socialism: Humanitarian Imaginaries in the Yugoslav Red Cross During the Nonaligned Movement. New Research on Europe, Center for European Studies, Harvard University

2024 Postsocialist Pedagogy as a Liberal Politics of Love. Syracuse University

2024 Willing Suspension of Disbelief. The Work of Imagination in Sustaining Moral Projects. New Directions in Rusian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

2024 Socialist Modernist Worldmaking: Yugoslav Interventions in the International Humanitarian Debates in the 1970s. Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University

2024 Our Political Categories have always already been Shared. Socialist Histories of Humanitarianism in Europe. Keynote at the workshop “Reimagining Europe”, SIEF Historical Approaches in Cultural Analysis Meeting

2024 Humanitarian Aid and Complex Differences in a ‘Global East’. Keynote at the workshop Notes from the Margins: Human Rights-Related Activism, Advocacy, and Humanitarianism in Southeast Europe, Münster University

2023 Willing Suspension of Disbelief. The Work of Imagination in Sustaining Moral Projects. LSE Seminar in Anthropological Theory

2021 Minority Sexualities, Kinship, and Non-autological Freedom in Montenegro. Centre for Advanced Studies SEE, University of Rijeka, Croatia. Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5ueoHZ0WYM&t=1s

2020 Bios, Zoe, Psuche? Forms of Life in a Refugee Camp in Montenegro. Departmental Seminar in Social Anthropology, University of Helsinki, Finland

2019 Humanitarianism as a Politics of Denizenship, Philosophers’ Square, KotorArt, Montenegro

2018 Doing Gender in a Refugee Camp: Politics and Ethics beyond a Subject. Institutskolloquium, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt Universität

2018 Informality, Clientelism, Patronage, Favours: Anthropological Theories on Getting Things Done. Keynote Lecture at the workshop “Tracing Informality in Southeast and Northeast Europe”, Riga Stradins University, Latvia. Video recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=c2NNwf72ai0&feature=emb_logo

2017 Favors, Community, and Citizenship: Social Protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Departmental seminar at the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society, and Rule of Law, University of Aberdeen, UK

2015 Ethnographies of the Balkans at the turn of the 20th century. Departmental seminar at the New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study, Romania

2015 Queering Montenegro: Challenging Homophobia in Montenegro. Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality, Netherlands

2014 Favours and Flexibility: Rethinking Informality and Care in post-Yugoslav Contexts. Departmental seminar at the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, Austria

2014 “Fixing Relations”: Rethinking Favours (veze/štele) as Political Practice in BiH. CEU Institute for Advanced Study, Hungary

2012 You Never Know when you might Need Someone: Biological Citizenship in a Border Town in BiH. Departmental seminar at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

2011 Borders and Hybridity. Talk embedded into the course Borders, organized by Prof. Stef Jansen, University of Manchester, UK

2010 Women Solidarity and Negotiations with the State: Social Care on the Bosnian-Serbian Border. Belgrade Centre for Women and Gender Studies, Serbia

2010 Where is the Border? Petnica International Summer School, Petnica Science Centre, Serbia

Minority Sexualities, Kinship, and Non-autological Freedom in Montenegro. CAS SEE Weekly Seminar, 2021

 

Keynote: Informality, Clientelism, Patronage, Favours: Anthropological Theories on Getting Things Done, Riga Stradinš University, 2018

 

 

Talk about my paper on humanitarian actions in Bosnia and Herzegovina with prof. Florian Bieber, 2014

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