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Tomorrow, the @NobelPrize laureate Peter Handke will visit Višegrad, a Bosnian town where Serb nationalist forces killed and expelled all non-Serbs in 1992-1995, one of the many crimes Handke has

Plums & Power~ In 1863, the Ottoman inspector-general Cevdet Pasha arrived to Bosnia and began to investigate the global flows of the plum trade Cevdet Pasha came to Bosnia in

Sitting in his shop in Sarajevo, Mustafa Basheski met hundreds of people seeking his services as a scribe. He also kept a fascinating chronicle (ca. 1747-1800), recording each year the

Outbreaks of disease are typically seen as temporary, but the institutions organized to suppress them can last far longer. The Habsburg “sanitary border” with the Ottoman Empire is one example

In 1933-35, Milman Parry & Albert Lord came to Yugoslavia with 1000s of aluminum disks onto which they recorded oral poetry from waiters, farmers, coffeeshop patrons, village women. Their archive