On Friday, 9 January, Emina Bužinkić, a scholar at the Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), delivered a guest lecture at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, as part of the course Anthropology of Violence and Conflict. The course is taught by Dr Ivona Grgurinović at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology.
The lecture, titled “The Anthropology of Genocide: Palestine in the International (Dis)Order and the Question of Recognition,” drew on the article Yesterday Srebrenica, Today Gaza, co-authored by Emina Bužinkić and Dr Piro Rexhepi. Through an anthropological and political lens, the lecture examined the instrumentalisation of naming, recognition, and reparation of genocide, with particular emphasis on reading Srebrenica and Gaza together—not through competitive comparison, but as an analytical framework for understanding contemporary regimes of violence, recognition, and denial.
The lecture was situated within the broader field of critical genocide studies and war and peace studies, as well as scholarship and practice on transnational solidarities, linking academic analysis with questions of responsibility, recognition, and the political limits of the international order.
