︎ T H E L A T E S T ︎
︎ P O D C A S T ︎
November 01, 20224.
THE FIRE THESE TIMES # 175
“Beekeeping in the End Times: A View from Bosnia”
with Larisa Jasarević
Hosted by Anna M & Elia Ayoub https://thefirethesetimes.com/2024/11/01/beekeeping-bosnia-in-the-end-times-w-larisa-jasarevic/
For episode 175, Elia Ayoub and Anna M (co-host of Obscuristan) are joined by Larisa Jašarević to talk about her new book “Beekeeping in the End Times.” They delve into bees and Abrahamic faiths, climate change, folk tradition, and above all how we can all be connecting to the natural world while still remaining rooted in ourselves and our lives.
The Fire These Times is a proud member of From The Periphery (FTP) Media Collective.
︎ P O D C A S T ︎
October 26, 20224.
New books in Anthropology,
“Beekeeping in the End Times,” Larisa Jasarević
Hosted by Yadong Li
https://newbooksnetwork.com/beekeeping-in-the-end-times
Every hundred years, as the story goes, two angels wonder out loud whether the bees are still swarming. For as long as the bees are swarming, the angels are reassured, the world holds together. Still, the tale suggests, the angels live in anxious anticipation of the End. Local beekeepers in Bosnia and Herzegovina retell the old tale with growing unease, as their honeybees weather the ground effects of climate change.
︎ S Y M P O S I U M ︎
September 26-27, 2024.
Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies Research Centre of the Sloveninan Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
“Hot as Hell: An Eschatological Reading of Extreme Weather,” Larisa Jašarević.
︎ B O O K ︎
IT’S OUT!
Pussy Willow catkins! They blossomed several weeks ago, two months ahead of time. The book, too, is out of press. Just in time.
︎ T E X T S, T A L K S &
T O U R S ︎
︎ T A L K ︎
September 5, 2024.
Lady Fatima Inagural Lecture, Habib University, Karachi, Pakistan.
“Thinking on the Tattered Planet: Ecostress, Religion, and the Gender Quarrel.”
This inaugural talk seeks to anticipate themes in the Lady Fatima Chair in Women and Divinity lecture series, by asking generally: what thinking can we aspire to cultivate on our tattered planet? Weaving together notes on extreme heat, blazing over the planet through 2024, Prophetic lessons on sustainable living, and reverent memories of Hazrat Bibi Fatima (as), the talk revisits the themes of living tradition and life science, religion and hope, as well as the gender quarrel, ongoing under the conditions of ecostress in which we all participate.
︎ C O N V E R S A T I O N ︎
July 8, 2024.
CaMP Anthropology.Larisa Jašarević on her book, Beekeeping in the End Times.
https://campanthropology.org/2024/07/08/larisa-jasarevic-on-her-book-beekeeping-in-the-end-times/
︎ B O O K L A U N C H ︎
March 28, 2024.
Queen Mary University of London, 5:00 pm (GMT).
“Beekeeping in the End Times” book launch.
https://www.isrf.org/events/book-launches/beekeeping-in-the-end-times/
︎ C O N V E R S A T I O N ︎
April 19, 2024.
Queen Mary University of London.
Doing IPS Symposium - 2nd Edition.
https://www.doingips.org/symposium2024
︎ T A L K ︎
March 7, 2024.
A Netherlands beekeepers’ association.
“Beekeeping in the End Times” online event, open to public.
Registration at:
https://inheemsedonkerebij.nl/event/lezing-beekeeping-in-the-end-times-larisa-jasarevic/
︎ T E X T ︎
How Beekeepers Are Experiencing the Effects of Climate Change in Bosnia
New Lines Magazine, Reportage Climate Change, 23. Novembar, 2023.
Unpredictable seasonal changes and odd effects on plants have made it a struggle to simply keep the bees alive.
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/how-beekeepers-are-experiencing-the-effects-of-climate-change-in-bosnia/︎ S C R E E N I N G & B O O K R E A D I N G ︎
November 22, 2023.
University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
“Beekeeping in the End Times” Film screening and Book Reading.
https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/university/campus/calendar/event
︎ T A L K ︎
October 25, 2023.
Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association.
“Beekeeping in the End Times” online lecture.
The CBKA are delighted to welcome Larisa Jasarevic to talk about the effects of climate change on beekeeping in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/b eekeeping-in-the-end-times-tickets-656767518327?aff=oddtdtcreator
︎ T A L K ︎
May 3, 2023.
Environmental Futures , Queen Mary, University of London.
“Beekeeping in the End Times” lecture.
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/ihss/whats-on/items/beekeeping-in-the-end-times-lecture.html
︎ S C R E E N I N G ︎
May 4, 2023.
Hitchcock Cinema, Queen Mary University of London.
“Beekeeping in the End Times” public editing event.
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/ihss/whats-on/items/beekeeping-in-the-end-times-public-editing-event.html
︎ T E X T ︎
An Apiarian Abyss. New Lines, vol.2, April 2023.
printed edition
The effects of climate change on bees in Bosnia sparked a struggle to keep them alive.
https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/how-beekeepers-are-experiencing-the-effects-of-climate-change-in-bosnia/︎ T E X T ︎
Time to Dread. Anthropology Today. 39 (2) 1-2.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12792︎ T A L K ︎
March 8, 2023.
Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Basel, Switzerland.
“If you saw the world ending: An eco-eschatology in five steps.”
︎ T E X T ︎
From Atop a Mountin: Living, writing , etc.
Women Wrtie the Balkans, 27 January, 2023.
https://www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/from-atop-a-mountain︎ T A L K ︎
November 18, 2022.
Berliner Insitute für Islamische Theologie
︎ T E X T ︎
A sweet remedy for the ills of war
Finding solace in apiaries since Bosnia’s war and the troubled peace.
TRT World Opinion, 5. April, 2022.
https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/a-sweet-remedy-for-the-ills-of-war-56085
︎ T E X T ︎
When honey ceases to flow
Honey can flow in landscapes with dismal histories. But what futures are forecast in the honey’s waning from the wilds?
TRT World Opinion, 7. April, 2022.
︎ T A L K ︎
December 8, 2021.
Copenhagen Business School. “Apocalypse is a Heartbreak,” a keynote.
https://youtu.be/ajJtZL_VDkY
The keynote and the accompanying video set the tone for the workshop “Organizing for apocalypse,” convened jointly by ephemera, an independent, open access journal run by a devoted editorial collective and AlterEcos, a research group at the Copenhagen Business School. Starting from the premise that an apocalypse is more conceivable than ever the workshop asked might we prepare for an apocalypse and what to make of the many ongoing efforts to anticipate, counter, broadcast, or downplay apocalyptic organizing. In response, the keynote spoke of a heartbreak,as a devastating, intimate experience that Sufis highly recommend and practically cultivate in their contemplations of death and the world’s looming End. Heartbreaking is also everyday experience of local beekeepers in the face of the recurrent, disheartening finding that honey’s waning from the wilds. In fact, our species capacity for a heartbreak may be most effectively stalling the world’s bad end, the keynote proposed. The video compiles footage from the film, Beekeeping in the End Times, currently in production.
︎ T A L K ︎
May 5, 2021.
Cultural Studies UCSC Colloquium — Beekeeping in the End Times
https://culturalstudies.ucsc.edu/2021/03/18/may-5-2021-larisa-jasarevic-beekeeping-in-the-end-times/
A family of would-be migrants reenacts a swarm hunt at their former apiary in northeastern Bosnia. Their folk spells were well-attuned to the sorts of crises that tatter old human-apian ties, except the latest: extreme weather and emigration. Meanwhile, one tepid February, shepherds reflect on gratitude as their sheep graze by the growing coal-power plant. “The End is not yet,” they say. These are snapshots of what Jasarevic calls the quiets of disaster. Sharing a rough cut of a story from an ethnographic film, Jasarevic’s presentation concerns disaster ecology, Islamic eschatology, and ethnography as a homesteading craft.
︎ T E X T ︎
Have You Heard a Matica Sing?
Beekeeping After the War in Bosnia&Herzegovina
13. December, 2018.
Published by SAPIENS (An editorially independent magazine of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research), this video essay summarizes our take on local beekeeping.
︎ V I D E O S ︎
︎ V I D E O ︎
“Season with no name”
https://youtu.be/D0S-B073OIE
video, 4. min. 2023.
Unpredictable seasonal changes and odd effects on plants have made it a struggle to simply keep the bees alive.
︎ V I D E O ︎
“How to live on a battered pnanet?”
https://youtu.be/w8G9Ga6k7wM
video, 4:40 min. 2023.How to live on a battered planet?
Caring for bees, beavers, bats or brambles is not a humble starting point. It is the hands on chance to work against apocalypse while also pondering the meaning of the world that brings the marvellous multitude together and also brings misery and ruin.
︎ V I D E O ︎
“Apocalypse is a Heartbreak”
https://youtu.be/ajJtZL_VDkYvideo, 11 min. 2021.“Apocalypse is a Heartbreak” is a video prepared for ephemera & AlterEcos workshop to tell what bees and Bosnian Muslim beekeepers, Sufi lessons, and Islamic myths of end times have to offer in ways of thinking and organizing against apocalypse. In a word, a heartbreak, but not despair.
︎ V I D E O ︎
Have you heard a ‘matica’ sing?
https://youtu.be/aL69ghy2SLs
video, 9:52 min. 2020.︎ V I D E O ︎
Taste the Honey
video, 4:14 min. 2018This video essay was composed for Translating Vitalities Collective, Istria,
Summer of 2018.
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