BASIC INFO
Gorcin Dizdar has completed his BA in Philosophy and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford and his MA and PhD in Humanities at York University, Toronto, where he was a recipient of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. In his dissertation, he provides an interdisciplinary analysis of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s medieval cultural heritage, paying particular attention to the ways in which it continues to play an active role in contemporary narratives of personal and collective self-identification. Currently, Gorcin acts as the director of the Mak Dizdar Foundation, a non-governmental organization dedicated to the protection and promotion of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s cultural heritage. His essay “The Graves of the Ancestors”, originally published in the literary journal Descant, was included in the volume Best Canadian Essays 2013.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Dizdar, G. (forthcoming) ‘Invisibility and Presence in the stećak stones of medieval Bosnia’, Invisiblity and Presence Conference Proceedings, Heidelberg UP

Dizdar, G. (2015) ‘Mediating Meaning in Botticelli’s Primavera’ in Georgi, Claudia (ed.). Convergence Culture Reconsidered. Göttingen UP

Dizdar, G. (2014) ‘Debosnizacija stećaka’ [‘The Debosniasation of the stećak stones’], Godišnjak Bošnjačke zajednice kulture “Preporod” 1: 265 – 269.

Dizdar, G. (2014) ‘Nekoliko crtica o pojmovima hereze, dualizma i Bosanske crkve’ [‘Some notes on the terms heresy, dualism and the Bosnian Church’], Forum Bosnae 66: 110 – 137.

Dizdar, G. (2013) ‘The Stones of the Ancestors’, Descant, April 2012, included in Doda, Christopher and Marche, Stephen (eds.). Best Canadian Essays 2013. Toronto: Tightrope Books

Dizdar, G. (2012) O ideologiji nauke o stećcima. [‘On the ideology of stecak scholarship’], Slovo Gorčina

SELECTED PROJECTS
2015: Initiator and manger of project Literary meetings “Across the Rivers”, bringing together 6 authors and 60 high school students from 3 regional countries, funded by UNICEF.

2012: Initiator and curator of Mak House, museum and cultural center in Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, housing exhibitons of artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Switzerland and Australia.

2012: ‘The Medieval Funerary Culture of Armenia’, York University Fieldwork Cost Fund.