Articulating Journeys:

Festivals, Memorials, & Homecomings

Please join us for the launch of the Berghahn book series

10 January 2019 6.30 – 8.30 pm

SOAS Webley Wing Senate House Gallery

WC1E 7HU

50% Discount Code on titles in the series until the end of January 2019: AJ19 www.berghahnbooks.com/series/articulating-journeys

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The Rite of Urban Passage: The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Transformation by Reza Masoudi

Travelling Towards Home: Mobilities and Homemaking edited by Nicola Frost and Tom Selwyn

The launch will also include an exhibition of images by Anne Adamson, Alys Tomlinson, and Reza Masoudi as well as an evening of Mediterranean music performed by Yılmaz Meral.

Articulating Journeys:

Festivals, Memorials, & Homecomings

Waiting for Elijah: Time and Encounter in a Bosnian Landsape by Safet HadžiMuhamedović an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism, and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized landscapes, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. A seemingly paradoxical situation—waiting to wait for the shared feast of Elijah—becomes a starting point for a broader discussion on the complexity of time set between cosmology, nationalism, and embodied memories of proximity.

The landscape of contemporary mobility stresses ideas of home, return, commemoration and celebration. Groups seek to mark changing elements of historical and cultural importance through architecture, narrative and festivity.  Engaging with more substantive ethnographic features and linking back to classical anthropological and philosophical concerns, this series contributes to a new understanding of the Other encountered away from home but also of the Self and home. The event will inaugurate three volumes from the series:

focusing on the spatial dynamics of Muharram processions in the Iranian city, this book offers an alternative approach to understanding the process of urban transformation and puts forward a spatial genealogy of Muharram rituals that provides a platform for developing a fresh spatial approach to ritual studies.

this collection brings ethnographic insight into the ever more topical question of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of socio-political contexts worldwide (from Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine to young gay South Asians in London) and provoking new understandings of the material and symbolic process of making oneself ‘at home’.

Series editors: Tom Selwyn and Nicola Frost