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Ana Sekulić
@anasekulic.bsky.social
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Historian & writer. Editor & co-founder of Women* Write the Balkans. Aspiring corgi haver.
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home place 1891 and 2022
a drawing of a stony slopes looking over a valley, features sparse trees and a stone house photograph of a hilly landscape from a mountainside
February 8, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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Ruins of a stone house amid the forest, tree growing from it's interior
December 1, 2023 at 2:19 PM
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Image of a first clearing with a tree in the middle
November 24, 2023 at 4:07 PM
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Istra💜
Photo of trees lined against the low stone wall
November 10, 2023 at 12:43 PM
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Image of tree canopy with sun rays breaking through
November 3, 2023 at 12:30 PM
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@leahorvat.bsky.social, Snežana Stanković & I are happy to announce the program for the upcoming conference The Balkans as a Space of Nourishment! Check it out!
The Balkans as a Space of Nourishment Day 1: Thursday, November 16 Welcome & Introduction 03.00 p.m. 03.30 p.m. Panel 1 Nurturing Selfhood Dennis Dierks (Leipzig University): Imperijal’s (Lost) Menu. Restoring Selfhood and Representing Multiculturality in a Sarajevo Post War Café Dino Kadich (University of Cambridge): Disorderly Transition, Disordered Bodies: Orthorexia Nervosa as Political Subjectivity in Bosnia and Herzegovina Day 2: Friday, November 17 Panel 2 Panel 3 Panel 4 Care and Repair as Resistance Zorica Siročić (University of Graz): Festivals as Reparative Politics: Millennial Feminist Activism in Southeastern Europe Mela Žuljević (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography): Hercegovina Kalifornija: Notes on the Landscape Visions of HEPOK and Their Legacies of (In-Between) Nourishment Embodied Well-Being in Socialist Yugoslavia Dino Šakanović (University of Sarajevo): Nourishment and the Workplace in the Late Socialism: The Case of Yugoslavia 09.00 a.m. 11.00 a.m. 0 Day 3: Saturday, November 18 Venue: Friedrich Schiller University Jena Accouchierhaus Jenergasse 8 07743 Jena Sponsors: Organizers: Ana Sekulić, University of Pittsburgh Lea Horvat, Friedrich Schiller University Jena Snežana Stanković, Friedrich Schiller University Jena Panel 5 Food Remedies 09.00 a.m. Bianca Hepp (University of Tübingen): Hospitality as Part of the Negotiation of Belonging among Children and Grandchildren of "(Late) Emigrants" from Hamroth/Homorodu de Jos (Romania) Dragana Obradović (University of Toronto): Field Notes on the Green Market Workshop (Un)Welcoming Environments: Forests Along the Balkan Route, led by Snežana Stanković Final Discussion 11.00 a.m. 12.00 p.m.
October 27, 2023 at 7:23 PM
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book list for the next several weeks: re-reading Palace of Palms, preparing to read Cities of Salt as part of energy&extraction week in environmental history, and Elixir by Kapka Kassabova whose keynote lecture is coming up soon 👇
image of three books: Palace of Palms by Kate Teltscher; Elixir by Kassabova, and Cities of Salt by Munif Lecture poster featuring lecture description and book cover of Kapka KAssabova's Elixir: In the Valley and the End of Time. Lecture: An Alchemical Journey, November 17th, 2023, at 10 am EST.
October 27, 2023 at 4:41 PM
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Pine forest sitting on limestone.
#krš
image of a pine forest on top of rock terrain "Sl. 9. Profil zemljišta na Kršu"
October 13, 2023 at 2:47 PM
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Reading Menna Agha's The Invention of Nubian Deserts before class. I paired this essay with chapters by Diana Davis, whose work I really, really like.
Front page of The Funambulist Magazine; the painting depicts a desert landscape under a night sky, with a camel and three figures in the middle of the scene. "The Funambulist: Politics of Space and Bodies No 44: The Desert November-December 2022 Continental lives and anticolonial struggles in arid, plentiful lands" "THE INVENTION OF NUBIAN DESERTS Contributor: Menna Agha Published October 18, 2022 In this text, Menna Agha describes how “deserts”—a term inexistent in Nubian cosmology—constitute a political process of dispossession of Nubian land used both by European colonialists and the Egyptian state. From the harsh realities of displacement this dispossession triggered, she imagines what Return would mean for Nubian people."
October 12, 2023 at 11:21 AM
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It turns out that i struggle to teach the topics that I like most. There's so much to say and so little time. For the trees & deserts week (I teach them together), I chose excerpts from Scott's Seeing Like a State, D. Moon's "Planting Trees in Unsuitable Places" & 👇excerpts from this amazing volume.
Front page of a book, showing a tree canopy. Edited by Laura Rival Materializing Culture The Social Life of trees: Anthropological perspectives on tree symbolism
October 10, 2023 at 11:58 AM
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Leila Aboulela and Rania Mamoun on writing away from home and how home(s) and absence of it shape their writing. Many things resonate
October 5, 2023 at 12:12 AM
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Cemetery field trip essentials: ✅ let's go!
Image shows box of Dunkin donuts munchkins, Trees of Pennsylvania field guide and a book titled The Rural Cemetery Movement
September 30, 2023 at 2:53 PM
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ForestFridays are turning into KršFridays (kršni petak? i'm open to suggestions), mostly because forests & karst were two parts of the same coin in much of the early 20th century discussions.

Here: the shape of wind.

Also, hackberry is a tree of many names: koprivić, kustelić, kostela, ladonja...
image showing a road with two people. the tree by the side of the road is slanted as a result of strong winds. "Utjecaj bure na oblik krošnje koprivića (Celtis australis) na putu iz Vrbnika u Aleksandrovo."
September 29, 2023 at 3:36 PM
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Exciting news! Join us for a keynote talk with Kapka Kassabova on November 17 👇Help us spread the word!

This is a hybrid event and registration link is available here: pitt.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Lecture poster featuring lecture description and book cover of Kapka KAssabova's Elixir: In the Valley and the End of Time. Lecture: An Alchemical Journey, November 17th, 2023, at 10 am EST. Kapka Kassabova's writing eschews a narrow register of academic writing and explores different chronotopes of nourishment, from The Red Riviera of the Black Sea coast to the and the valley of the river Mesta, abundant with local practices of healing. Join us for a discussion about situated, in-depth histories of well-being, care, and nourishment as we collectively contemplate the potential of the Balkans as a space of nourishment. This Keynote address is part of the conference Balkans As a Place of Nourishment, taking place from November 16-18th in Jena, Germany.
September 27, 2023 at 2:26 PM
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i love this essay. this semester i assigned it to the final week when we think of larger questions of inclusion and exclusion in the environment
Week 14: Who Does Nature Belong To; Who Belongs in Nature? November 28: GROUP PRESENTATION • William Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness, Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature” [Canvas] November 30: • Sarah Jacquette Ray, The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture, Chapter 3 + Conclusion [online library resource]
September 26, 2023 at 12:20 PM
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tomorrow my ottoman class discusses borderlands, so what better source material is there than epistolary exchanges across the Ottoman/Habsburg/Venetian borders about contraband, trade, and not-so-uncommon slavery. let's see how many i can translate till tomorrow🤞
Dopisi izmedju krajiških turskih i hrvatskih častnika . Priobćio u sjednici filologičko -historičkoga razreda jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti dne 9 lipnja 1875 . PRAVI ČLAN FR . RAČKI . U X. knjizi ovoga akademičkoga zbornika priobči akademik S. Ljubić njekoliko dopisa turskih oblasti, pisanih bosanskom cirilicom u XVI i XVII vieku. Ja sam još prije predao bio zbirku takovih dopisa ponajviše iz XVII stoljeća ; a sada ju iznosim na svjetlo . Ovom zbirkom okoristit će se ponajprije svaki , koji se našim jezikom zanima . Dopisi pisani su čistim je govorio sam pisac. Naš se jezik u pučkim jezikom , kako ga osebinah svojih kakovimi izticao XVI XVII vieku Odjeven pako većinom cirilicu bosan sku kojom pisac služio onako kako umio pisao kako rieč izgovarao toga pravopisni pojavi dopisih dosta zanimivi Nekoliko mlađih pisama hercegovačke gospode pisanih bosanicom iz dubrovačke arhive. Priopćio Dr. Ćiro Truhelka. (Sa 5 faksimila.) Priopćujem eto 32 pisma razne hercegovačke gospode što sam ih našao u dubrovačkoj arhivi. Po dobi mlađa su od onih, što sam ih u svoje doba priopćio u svojim Tursko-slovjenskim spomenicima, jer idu od XVI. do u XVIII. vijek. Neka od njih zanimiva su kao historički dokumenti, a sva kao kulturni doku menti, jer nam dokazuju, kako su se turska hercegovačka gospoda služila u svojoj prepisci, sve do najnovije dobe, svojom domaćom bosanicom. Jedina iznimka je pismo Paše Bardonića i Hadži Ahmeda Jusufagića priopćeno pod br. 9. pisano latinicom, a ide u prvu četvrt XVII. vijeka, te je bez obzira na zanimive historičke podatke važan paleografski dokumenat za paleografiju latinice u ovim stranama.
September 25, 2023 at 2:42 PM
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Bald cypress in Pittsburgh cemetery
September 22, 2023 at 10:23 PM
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Florida Bald Cypress Forests
a lake with an alligator swimming and a forest in the background
September 22, 2023 at 5:18 PM
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Oak grove. Leaves have been collected for feeding the animals.

krš and forests always go together
image showing an oak grove with bare branches; the leaves have been collected for feeding the animals. "Iskorišćavanje hrastovog lišća za hranu stoke u ogradama na Kršu"
September 15, 2023 at 1:08 PM
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And here is the dynamic of every Balkan marriage I've ever witnessed:
(From Where You Come From, S. Stanišić)
September 10, 2023 at 12:11 AM
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chose this image for today's lecture. i knew of Arcimboldo's other painting cycles but wasn't aware of The Four Elements. here showing Water, with pearls taking central stage!
Giuseppe Arcimboldo's painting: Water. Shows a shape of human torso composed of smaller marine creatures, fish, crabs, pearls, and corrals.
August 31, 2023 at 1:41 PM
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didn't understand the croatian title until i saw the german version. #uploške 🤷‍♀️
Das Karstgebiet der kroatischen Militärgrenze mi Algemeinen. 0 krasu u hrvatskoj vojnickoj krajini uploske.
August 30, 2023 at 9:51 PM
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in tomorrow's class, we're talking about the life cycles of pearls—a great object and commodity that captures a wealth of meaning as well as extraction practices and labor. are we going to mention the who's-got-bigger pearls kerfuffle? you bet!
Kate and Meghan wear pearls to mourn Queen Elizabeth II at state funeral | The Star Images of Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle wearing pearl earrings
August 30, 2023 at 3:02 PM
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August 10, 2023 at 3:38 PM
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i'll admire the design
August 7, 2023 at 6:26 PM