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Authored Books

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge (updated, paperback edition). London: Bloomsbury. (Islamic South Asia series)

Hamzić, Vanja (2016) Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge. London: I.B. Tauris. (Islamic South Asia series)

Hamzić, Vanja and Mir-Hosseini, Ziba (2010) Control and Sexuality: The Revival of Zina Laws in Muslim Contexts. London: Women Living Under Muslim Laws.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Hamzić, Vanja and Bargu, Banu, eds. (2020) Muslim Marxism. TBC. (Forthcoming)

Hamzić, Vanja, Abbasi, Muhammad Zubair, Ayoub, Samy, Samour, Nahed and Yahaya, Nurfadzilah, eds. (2018) Islamic Law and Empire. Leiden: Brill. (Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (Special issue, Vol. 19))

Hamzić, Vanja, ed. (2007) Base-line Study on Faith-based Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Challenges of Non-patriarchal Communities and Approach / Osnovna studija o vjerskom razvoju u Bosni i Hercegovini: Izazov vanpatrijarhalnih zajednica i pristupa. Sarajevo: Logos.

Book Chapters

Hamzić, Vanja (2024) 'After Homo Narrans: Botany, International Law, and Senegambia in Early Racial Capitalist Worldmaking.' In: Arvindsson, Matilda and Jones, Emily, (eds.), International Law and Posthuman Theory. Abingdon: Routledge.

Hamzić, Vanja (2024) 'Law.' In: Lake, Jessica and Cramer, Lorinda, (eds.), A Cultural History of Gender, 1750-1950. London: Bloomsbury. (Forthcoming)

Hamzić, Vanja (2024) 'Rival Systems: Islamic International Law during the Cold War.' In: Craven, Matthew, Pahuja, Sundhya and Simpson, Gerry, (eds.), International Law during the Cold War, 1945-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (The Cambridge History of International Law, Vol. XI) (Forthcoming)

Hamzić, Vanja (2023) 'Temporal Nonconformity: Being There Together as Khwajasara in a Time of One’s Own.' In: Kasmani, Omar, (ed.), Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 125-145.

Hamzić, Vanja (2023) 'Kvir i trans muslimanske hermeneutike budućeg: Mikrokozmička istrajavanja na putu zajedništva.' In: Kristić, Alen, (ed.), (Pro)vokacija LGBTQA+ vjernica i vjernika: Pledoaje za dijalog vjerskih zajednica i LGBTQA+ zajednice. Sarajevo: Sarajevski otvoreni centar. (Forthcoming)

Hamzić, Vanja (2023) 'Labors in Time and Subjectivity: Gender Nonconformity and Racial Capitalism in the Making of Eighteenth-Century New Orleans.' In: Engle, Karen and Hoad, Neville, (eds.), Beyond Inequality: New Paradigms for Assessing the Future of Work. New York: Columbia University Press. (Forthcoming)

Hamzić, Vanja (2023) 'TWAIL and Queer Theory.' In: Anghie, Anthony, Chimni, BS, Fakhri, Michael and Nesiah, Vasuki, (eds.), Handbook of Third World Approaches to International Law. London: Edward Elgar. (Forthcoming)

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) 'Pakistan's Cold War(s) and International Law.' In: Craven, Matthew, Pahuja, Sundhya and Gerry, Simpson, (eds.), International Law and the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 447-466.

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) 'A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in Pakistan.' In: Halley, Janet, Kotiswaran, Prabha, Rebouché, R. and Shamir, Hila, (eds.), Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 407-433.

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) 'What’s Left of the Real?' In: Fassin, Didier and Harcourt, Bernard E., (eds.), A Time for Critique. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) 'A Renaissance Interrupted? Personhood, ‘Sodomy’ and the Public in Twelfth-Century Christian and Islamic Proto-Civil Legality.' In: Emerich, Yaëll, (ed.), Le public en droit privé. Montréal: McGill University Press, pp. 221-243.

Hamzić, Vanja (2018) 'A Renaissance Interrupted? Debating Personhood through a Sexual Act in the Twelfth-Century Christianate and Islamicate Worlds.' In: Schmidtke, Sabine, (ed.), Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935-2018. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, pp. 308-321.

Hamzić, Vanja (2018) 'Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the Idea of Muslim Marxism: Empire, Third World(s) and Praxis.' In: Natarajan, Usha, Reynolds, John, Bhatia, Amar and Xavier, Sujith, (eds.), Third World Approaches to International Law: On Praxis and the Intellectual. London: Routledge, pp. 105-118. (ThirdWorlds)

Hamzić, Vanja (2017) 'International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other.' In: Otto, Dianne, (ed.), Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 77-90. (Routledge Research in International Law)

Hamzić, Vanja (2017) 'Alegality: Outside and Beyond the Legal Logic of Late Capitalism.' In: Brabazon, H, (ed.), Neoliberal Legality: Understanding the Role of Law in the Neoliberal Project. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 190-209.

Hamzić, Vanja (2017) 'Selfhood and Archipelago in Indonesia: A Case for Human Polyversality.' In: Sircar, O. and Jain, P., (eds.), New Intimacies / Old Desires: Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times. New Delhi: Zubaan Books; Chicago University Press, pp. 235-252.

Hamzić, Vanja (2012) 'An Interstice of Justice?: Muslim Experiences of Sexual and Gender Diversity between Human Rights Law and Islamic Legal Tradition.' In: Holzhacker, R and Lahey, K, (eds.), Global Rights, Global Movements: International Law, Transnational Activism, and the Critical Role of Civil Society. New York: New York University Press, pp. 121-152.

Hamzić, Vanja (2012) 'The Resistance from an Alterspace: Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the Dominant Sexual and Gender Norms.' In: Kam-Tuck Yip, Andrew and Nynäs, Peter, (eds.), Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life. Surrey: Ashgate, pp. 17-35.

Journal Article

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) 'The Dera Paradigm: Homecoming of the Gendered Other.' Ethnoscripts, 21 (1). pp. 34-57.

Abbasi, Muhammad Zubair, Ayoub, Samy, Hamzić, Vanja, Samour, Nahed and Yahaya, Nurfadzilah (2018) 'Preface to Special Edition: Islamic Law and Empire.' Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (Special issue: 'Islamic Law and Empire'), 19. pp. 3-9.

Hamzić, Vanja (2017) 'Affective Critique: Fear, Hope, Abandonment and Pleasure in Dianne Otto’s Living with International Law.' Melbourne Journal of International Law, 18 (2). pp. 125-130.

Hamzić, Vanja (2017) 'Affective Critique: Fear, Hope, Abandonment and Pleasure in Dianne Otto's Living with International Law.' feminists@law, 7 (1). pp. 1-6.

Hamzić, Vanja (2016) 'Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the Idea of Muslim Marxism: Empire, Third World(s) and Praxis.' Third World Quarterly, 37 (11). pp. 2047-2060.

Hamzić, Vanja (2015) 'The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj.' Australian Feminist Law Journal, 40 (2). pp. 185-198.

Hamzić, Vanja (2012) 'Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies: Indonesian Archipelagic Selves beyond Sexual/Gender Universality.' Jindal Global Law Review, 4 (1). pp. 71-85.

Hamzić, Vanja (2011) 'The Case of “Queer Muslims”: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Human Rights Law and Muslim Legal and Social Ethos.' Human Rights Law Review, 11 (2). pp. 237-274.

Conference or Workshop Items

Hamzić, Vanja (2023) Legal Production of Racial Capitalism: Botany, International Law and Senegambia in Eighteenth-Century Worldmaking. In: ‘Legal Production of Racial Capitalism’ Roundtable, Law and Society Association’s Annual Meeting, June 2023, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2023) Dis-temporal Re-distributions: Worldings beyond the Racial Capitalist Gender Binary in Eighteenth-Century Senegambia and Colonial Louisiana. In: Gender and Political Economy Roundtable II: ‘Transnational and Comparative Perspectives’, Law and Society Association’s Annual Meeting, June 2023, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2023) Cosmological and Gender-Bodily Resistance to an Emergent Racial Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century West Africa and Colonial Louisiana. In: Invited talk, the Xenia Series (online), March 2023, London / Cambridge. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2022) International Law, Coloniality and Temporal Otherwise. In: Queering International Law, 2.0, November 2022, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2022) Approaching Resistance to the Racial Capitalist Gender Binary in Eighteenth-Century Senegambia and Colonial Louisiana: Quandaries and Inspiration. In: ‘Law, Capital, Slavery, Personhood: New Perspectives on Racial Capitalism’ Roundtable, Law and Society Association’s Global Meeting, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2022) Temporal Refuges and Interruptions: Racial Capitalism and Cosmological and Gender Nonconformity in Eighteenth- Century Senegambia and Colonial Louisiana. In: Gender and Political Economy Roundtable III: ‘Transnational and Comparative Perspectives’, Law and Society Association’s Global Meeting, July 2022, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2022) Life-making and the Feminist Otherwise: Discussant’s Responses. In: ‘Provincializing Euro-American Feminism’ Panel, Law and Society Association’s Global Meeting, July 2022, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2022) Labours in Time and Subjectivity: Gender Nonconformity and Racial Capitalism in the Making of Eighteenth- Century New Orleans. In: ‘Law, Personhood and Racial Capitalism in the History of Empire’ Panel, Legal Histories of Empire Conference, June 2022, Maynooth University, Ireland. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2022) Temporal Refuges and Interruptions: Racial Capitalism and Cosmological and Gender Nonconformity in Eighteenth-Century Senegambia and Colonial Louisiana. In: Panel III: ‘Rethinking Capital’s Other? Religion/Race/Law’, Histories of Capitalism and Race Workshop, June 2022, SOAS University of London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2021) Islamic Law, the Private Sphere, State Policy and Transformations. In: Gender and Private International Law Workshop, May 2021, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2020) Freud, Liberty and Parasitical Happiness. In: IGLP: Crunching the Core: Exercises in Critical Theory, October 2020 (online), Harvard Law School. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2020) Economising the Gender Binary: Temporality and Displacement in Early Circum-Atlantic Racial Capitalism. In: Duress and Virality: The Endurance of Racial Capitalism, October 2020, SOAS Festival of Ideas. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2020) E.P. Thompson, the Railway and the Potential of Radical Care. In: Race and Law in the Time of COVID-19, July 2020, Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law, SOAS University of London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2020) Worldings of "Us" and of Tumbleweeds: On Spillage and Matter in a Messy, Intersubjective Here (and Elsewhere). In: Thinking Like Tumbleweeds: Bodily Genres and the Vitality of Beings at Large, RAI2020: Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future, June 2020, SOAS University of London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2020) Worldings that Spill and that Matter. In: Feminism and Materialism in International Relations, International Studies Association Annual Convention, March 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja and Thomas, Chantal (2019) Migration. In: Lunch Roundtable, IGLP Retreat, November 2019, Chatham, Cape Cod, MA, USA. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) On Triple Dispossession in Louisiana: Initial Thoughts. In: Beyond Inequality Workshop, October 2019, Cape Cod, MA, USA. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) Binaries, Intersected: The Trouble of Global Governance in Post-colonial Mali. In: discussion on Vasuki Nesiah’s ‘Trigger: Gender as Tool and Weapon’, Inaugural Annual Lecture on Gender Studies and Law, October 2019, SOAS University of London. (Unpublished)

HadžiMuhamedović, Safet, Heathcote, Gina, Hamzić, Vanja and Jones, Emily (2019) Thinking like Tumbleweeds: Bodily Genres and the Vitality of Beings at Large. In: RAI2020: Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future, 4-7 June 2020, SOAS University of London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) The Wordsmiths of Time: Gender Variance, Social Status and Distemporalities in “Eighteenth-Century” Greater Senegambia. In: Panel on Distemporalities: Collisions, Insurrections and Reorientations in the Worlding of Time, On Time: The Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, August 2019, Helsinki, Finland. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) A Turn to Governance: Feminist Conundrums and Pakistan’s Neoliberal Future Past. In: Panel on Feminist Theories and Epistemologies from the Global South, Symposium on Critical Approaches to International Law, August 2019, Griffith College Dublin, Ireland. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) Interruption: Rethinking Circum-Atlantic Gender Variance of the Enslaved in Eighteenth-Century West Africa and Colonial Louisiana. In: Roundtable Session on Critical Directions: On Gender, Law and Intersectional Subjectivities, Law and Society Association Annual Conference, May 2019, Washington, DC, USA. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) Arendt in New Orleans: On Violence, Power and Insurrectionary Pasts. In: Panel on Hannah Arendt: On Violence, Power and Revolution, Law and Society Association Annual Conference, May 2019, Washington, DC, USA. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights. In: Author Meets Reader Session, Law and Society Association Annual Conference, May 2019, Washington, DC, USA. (Unpublished)

HadžiMuhamedović, Safet and Hamzić, Vanja (2019) Distemporalities: Collisions, Insurrections and Reorientations in the Worlding of Time. In: On Time: Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 29–30 Aug 2019, University of Helsinki. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) Re-Gendering the Ɲamakalaw: Empire, Personhood and Violence in Eighteenth-Century Greater Senegambia. In: GenderX: Transnational and Decolonial Perspectives on and beyond the Gender Binary, May 2019, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS University of London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) Towards Intricate Interruptabilities: On Knowledge Weaving in Gina Heathcote’s Feminist Dialogues on International Law. In: Feminist Methodologies in International Law, March 2019, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS University of London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2018) 'A Renaissance Interrupted? Personhood, “Sodomy” and the Public in 12th Century Christian and Islamic Proto-Civil Legality'. In: A Reader’s Lecture, Keynote Speaker, The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, November 2018, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2018) Bodies that Border that Line. In: 'Queer' Asia 2018 Keynote Panel, June 2018, 'Queer' Asia Conference, SOAS University of London, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2018) Interruption: Rethinking Circum-Atlantic Gender Variance of the Enslaved in Eighteenth-Century West Africa and Colonial Louisiana. In: Law and Society Association Annual Conference, June 2018, Toronto, Canada. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2018) Critique and the Real Thing. In: IGLP Conference: Law in Global Political Economy: Heterodoxy Now, June 2018, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2018) Archival Violence: 
Or, How to (Un)Archive the Lifeworlds of Eighteenth-Century Enslaved Gender-Variant West Africans. In: IGLP Conference: Law in Global Political Economy: Heterodoxy Now, June 2018, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2018) History Otherwise: (Un)Archiving Eighteenth-Century Lives and Afterlives of the Enslaved Gender-Variant West Africans. In: SOAS School of Law Away Day, May 2018, The Foundry, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2018) A Renaissance Interrupted?: Personhood, “Sodomy” and the Public in Twelfth-Century Christian and Islamic Proto-Civil Legality. In: “Le public en droit privé”, March 2018, 2016-2018 Civil Law Workshops series, Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law, McGill University, Montréal, Canada. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2018) Gender-Variance, Society and Law in Indonesia. In: The IGLP Asian Regional Workshop, January 2018, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Bangkok, Thailand. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2018) Whither the Law and the State in Southeast Asian Histories? In: The IGLP Asian Regional Workshop, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, January 2017, Bangkok, Thailand. [Unpublished], January 2018, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Bangkok, Thailand. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2017) What's Left of the Real? In: A Time for Critique, November 2017, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2017) The Abyss. In: International Human Rights and Freedom: Possibilities, Epistemologies, Legacies and Alternatives, October-November 2017, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2017) 'Pakistan’s Cold War(s) and International Law'. In: Cold War International Law IV, September 2017, Tbilisi, Georgia. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2017) 'International Law as Violence: The Catastrophic Other'. In: Critical Legal Conference, September 2017, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja and Painter, Genevieve (2017) 'Thinking Home’s Homes: An Interdisciplinary Encounter'. In: Walls, Borders and Bridges: Law and Society in an Inter-Connected World, International Meeting, Law and Society Association, June 2017, Mexico City, Mexico. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2017) 'Archival Violence: An Ethnography of (Un)Archiving Enslaved Gender-Variant West Africans'. In: Biennial Conference, Society for the Anthropology of Religion, May 2017, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2017) 'Interruption'. In: Weekly Seminar, May 2017, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja and Cheesman, Nick (2017) 'Alegality or Infrapolitics?'. In: Law and the Social Sciences Seminar, February 2017, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2017) ‘Gender-Variance, Society and Law in Indonesia’. In: The IGLP Asian Regional Workshop, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, January 2017, Bangkok, Thailand. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2017) ‘Whither the Law (and the State) in Southeast Asian Histories?’. In: The IGLP Asian Regional Workshop, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, January 2017, Bangkok, Thailand. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2016) ‘Affective Critique: Fear, Hope, Abandonment and Pleasure in Dianne Otto’s Living with International Law’. In: Symposium to Celebrate the Work of Professor Dianne Otto, September 2016, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja and Painter, Genevieve (2016) ‘Speaking Law’s Home: Law, Language and Anthropology’. In: Law and Society Association Annual Conference, June 2016, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2016) ‘International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other’. In: Queer Perspectives on Law III: Queering the International: Internationalising the Queer, January 2016, Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, University of London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2015) International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other. In: Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks, December 2015, Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Australia. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2015) Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the Idea of Muslim Marxism: Empire, Third World(s) and Praxis. In: Third World Approaches to International Law Writing Workshop: On Praxis and the Intellectual, September 2015, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2015) The Dera Paradigm: Homecoming of the Gendered Other. In: Re-imagining Anthropological and Sociological Boundaries, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Inter-Congress, July 2015, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2015) On Muslim Marxism à la Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev: Empire, Law and Quietist Insurrections. In: Islamic Law and Empire, Research Conference, IGLP, June 2015, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2015) Towards Third World Approaches to Islamic Law: Empire, Gunpowder and Praxis. In: Third World Approaches to International Law Conference: On Praxis and the Intellectual, February 2015, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2015) Mir-Said Sultan-Galiev and the Idea of Muslim Marxism. In: Reformers and Intellectual Reformulation in Contemporary Islam, January 2015, SOAS, University of London and Queen Mary, University of London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2015) Wael B. Hallaq and the Question of Modern Nation-State in Islamic Legal Tradition: Empire of Law in Pre-Modern and Modern Muslim Legal Cultures. In: IGLP: The Workshop, Islamic Law and Policy Stream, January 2015, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2015) Equality and Legality in Muslim Subjectivity Formation. In: IGLP: The Workshop, ‘Law and Inequality within and between Nations’ Panel, January 2015, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2014) Twisting and Turning an Imperial (Re-)Turn. In: Inaugural Colloquium of the Centre for Ottoman Studies, 28 June 2014, SOAS, University of London, London, UK.

Hamzić, Vanja (2014) Recounting Past, Displacing Future. In: Inauguration of the Centre for Ottoman Studies, 27 June 2014, SOAS, University of London, London, UK.

Hamzić, Vanja (2014) Methodology and/of Critique in Islamic Legal Studies. In: Heterodox Approaches to Islamic Law and Policy, IGLP Research Conference, June 2014, Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2014) A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Unity in Pakistan. In: Governance Feminism Workshop, May 2014, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, London, UK.

Hamzić, Vanja (2014) The Khwajasara Movement and the Challenge of Translocality. In: 5th LAEMOS Conference, April 2014, Havana, Cuba.

Hamzić, Vanja (2014) Rethinking Crime in the Islamic Legal Tradition. In: Westminster Law School Research Seminars, January 2014, University of Westminster, London, UK.

Hamzić, Vanja (2014) Gender and Islamic Criminal Law in Nigeria: The Zina Case of Ms Amina Lawal (Part 2 of the author’s lecture series ‘Crime in Islamic Legal Tradition: A Reapprisal’). In: Global Law and Economic Policy Workshop, Institute for Global Law and Policy (of Harvard Law School), January 2014, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar.

Hamzić, Vanja (2014) Understanding Crime in Islamic Jurisprudence and Muslim Societies (Part 1 of the author’s lecture series ‘Crime in Islamic Legal Tradition: A Reappraisal’). In: Global Law and Economic Policy Workshop, Institute for Global Law and Policy (of Harvard Law School), January 2014, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar.

Hamzić, Vanja (2013) Muslims and Normativities. In: Comparative Approaches to Islamic Law and Economy, September 2013, Amman, Jordan.

Hamzić, Vanja (2013) The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj. In: Dogs, Pigs and Children: Changing Laws in Colonial Britain, September 2013, Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law, SOAS, University of London.

Hamzić, Vanja (2013) The Negative Hypothesis: On Rights and Relations in Marxist Legal Thought. In: The New Marxist Writing in International Law, City University London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2013) On Muslim Sexual and Gender Diversity and Lifeworlds beyond Legal Form. In: Law, Religion and LGBT Rights, July 2013, Brunel Law School, Brunel University. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2013) Neoliberalism, Law and Dissent: On Mimicry and Fetishism in the Time of Crisis. In: Neoliberal Legality Workshop, June 2013, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2013) Regendering the Nation: The Khwajasara Movement in Pakistan. In: 18th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, 18-20 April 2013, Harriman Institute, Columbia University. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2013) Toward an Interruptive History of Islamic Law. In: Global Law and Economic Policy Workshop, January 2013, Institute for Global Law and Policy (of Harvard Law School), Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2012) Developments in Islamic Law relating to Sexual and Gender Diversity. In: Religion and Human Rights: Religion in Private and Public Spaces, November 2012, Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2012) Rethinking Crime in Islamic Legal Tradition. In: Crime, Justice and Society, November 2012, City University London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2012) Place, Power and Sexual/Gender Irony: Indonesian Archipelagic and Islandic Selves. In: European Association of Social Anthropologists 12th Biennial Conference, July 2012, Nanterre, France. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2012) Re-Centring Periphery through Non-Co-Operation: Khwajasara Movement and Limits of Global Law in Pakistan. In: International Law and the Periphery Conference, February 2012, American University in Cairo. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2011) Indonesian Archipelagic Ipseities: Beyond Human Rights and Dichotomies of Personhood. In: Queer at King's Lectures Series, December 2011, King's College London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2011) Beyond the Binary Equations of Sexual/Gender Experience: An Inquiry into Indonesian Selfhood and Polyversality. In: Otherness, Subjectivity and Representation, October 2011, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2011) Dress to Impress: Phenomenology and Materiality of Liberal Human Rights Fashion in Global Law and in Indonesia. In: The Phenomenology of Global Order: Inquiries into the Materiality of International Law, 7 September 2011, Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law, SOAS, University of London.

Hamzić, Vanja (2011) Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies? In: Human Rights Beyond the Law: Politics, Practices, Performances of Protest, September 2011, Jindal Global University, Sonipat and New Delhi, India.

Hamzić, Vanja (2011) Unbecoming One: Legal Construction of Muslim Family in Indonesia. In: Pro-Seminar on Gender in Postcolonial Legal Orders, June 2011, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard University. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2011) The Resistance from a “Third Space”: A Comparative Study of Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the Dominant Sexual and Gender Norms. In: The Politics of Living Religion/Spirituality and Gender/Sexuality in Everyday Context Conference, May 2011, Novotel Hotel St Pancras, London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2011) (Sub)alternative Muslim Perceptions of Law and Justice: Beyond Politics of Fiqh and Inadequacy of Human Rights Discourse. In: Queer Perspectives on Law: Sharing Reflections, SOAS Spring Queer Legal Theory Workshop, May 2011, SOAS, University of London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2011) (Sub)alternating Imperia?: Law, Justice and Gender/Sexual Politics in Pakistan and Indonesia. In: Pro-Seminar on Gender in Postcolonial Legal Orders, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard University. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2009) The Role of Civil Society Organisations in the Former UN Commission on Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Council. In: Advanced Course on the International Protection of Human Rights, August 2009, Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2009) Catalysts and Consequences of Genocide: A Theoretical Framework. In: Genocide: Catalysts and Consequences, May 2009, Minorities of Europe Study Session in cooperation with Council of Europe, Budapest, Hungary. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2008) Engendered Identities: Undoing Multiple Discrimination. In: Take That Gender! EuroMed Training Course on Intercultural Dialogue around Gender and Lifestyles, October 2008, Bologna, Italy. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2008) Social Responsibility in Advertising. In: 10th Magdalena Festival of Creative Communications, May 2008, Maribor, Slovenia. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja and Cotugno, Giada (2007) Gender, Religion and Oppression. In: Encouraging Dialogue between LGBTQ and Faith-based Communities, October 2007, IGLYO / Council of Europe Study Session, Budapest, Hungary. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2007) Jewish Legal and Social Construction of Gender. In: Encouraging Dialogue between LGBTQ and Faith-based Communities, October 2007, IGLYO / Council of Europe Study Session, Budapest, Hungary. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2007) Islam in Europe: On Secularism and Pluralism. In: Religion and Democracy in Europe, May 2007, European Youth Forum and the Network of European Foundations, Brussels, Belgium. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2007) Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Main Challenges. In: Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights in Muslim Communities, March 2007, Muslim Advocacy Initiative, Jakarta, Indonesia. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2006) Ijtihad – Before and Beyond: An Overview of Historic and Contemporary Forms of Ijtihad. In: 3rd Inner Circle Annual Retreat, June 2006, Cape Town, Republic of South Africa. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2005) A Muslim Response to Religious Radicalism. In: International Dialogue on Gender, Sexuality, HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: Focus on Asia, November 2005, ARC International, Seoul, South Korea. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2005) The Time of Ijtihad. In: Annual Meeting of American Academy of Religion, November 2005, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Book Reviews

Hamzić, Vanja (2019) ''On Freedom beyond the Liberal Paradigm: Reading Ratna Kapur’s Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl'.' Feminist Review, 122 . pp. 177-180.

Hamzić, Vanja (2016) 'Review of: Ethnicity and International Law: Histories, Politics and Practices by Mohammad Shahabuddin.' Melbourne Journal of International Law, 17 (2). pp. 489-493.

Hamzić, Vanja (2016) 'Book Review: The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State by Iza R. Hussin.' LSE Review of Books .

Hamzić, Vanja (2016) 'Review of Faisal Devji, Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (Hurst and Company, London, 2013).' South Asia Research, 36 (2). pp. 288-290.

Hamzić, Vanja (2014) 'Review of Corrine Lennox and Matthew Waites (eds), Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, 2013).' Human Rights Law Review, 14 (2). pp. 386-390.

Other

Hamzić, Vanja (2016) 'Islamic Legal Histories.' In: Oxford Handbooks Online in Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming)

Bartlett, Peter and Hamzić, Vanja (2010) 'Reforming Mental Disability Law in Africa: Practical Tips and Suggestions.' Nottingham: University of Nottingham.

Hamzić, Vanja (2007) 'Religious Developments in the Western Balkans: Transitional Religion.' Shift Mag, 12 . pp. 14-18.

Hamzić, Vanja (2006) 'European Muslims Rethink Sexuality and Gender: Return to Innocence.' ILGA-Europe Magazine, 5 (4). pp. 16-22.

Hamzić, Vanja (2006) 'The Time of Ijtihad.' Yearbook of American Academy of Religion . pp. 384-401.

Hamzić, Vanja (2004) 'Sufizam između Istoka i Zapada (In Bosnian: ‘Sufism between East and West’).' Lica, 55 . pp. 98-124.

Hamzić, Vanja (2003) 'Putovi sufijske gnoze (In Bosnian: ‘The Paths of Sufi Gnosis’).' Lica, 47 . pp. 41-66.