The field trip to Mostar, Sarajevo and Srebrenica that I have undertaken with other participants of GHI summer school wasn’t my first trip to Bosnia. First couple of times, I went there as a high school kid spending Christmas holidays with my father who owned and operated a small lumber mill near Brčko. Sometime afterwards … Continue reading From Poems to Post-Scriptums: Historian’s Recollections from the Field Trip to Bosnia And Herzegovina
Building Knowledge Through Solidarity Networks
We were asked to write a blog post regarding our time at the GHI but I was not sure on what to write about. We were together for nine days, and I was affected in many ways during that time. I came back home and the sense of being part of something powerful was still … Continue reading Building Knowledge Through Solidarity Networks
A Researcher’s Experience of the Global Humanities Institute
It was truly a pleasure to participate in the 2019 CHCI-Mellon Crises of Democracy Global Humanities Institute in Dubrovnik. We were a mix of capable people coming from various locations, bringing with us a variety of individual experiences, societal issues and theoretical/empirical perspectives. This type of setting brings with itself the risk of creating a … Continue reading A Researcher’s Experience of the Global Humanities Institute
Learning to Remember
Within the framework of the CHCI-Mellon Crises of Democracy GHI 2019, our field trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina indeed became a tough experience of site-situated learning, as later on reported by many participants, me included. On that July weekend, I pondered a lot the pedagogy of looking and the politics of un-seeing. Indeed, we all … Continue reading Learning to Remember