The Sarajevo Canton Winter Field Campaign 2018 (SAFICA) was a project that took place in winter 2017–2018 with an aim to characterize the chemical composition of aerosol in the Sarajevo Canton, ...Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), which has one of the worst air qualities in Europe. This paper presents the first characterization of the metals in PM10 (particulate matter aerodynamic diameters ≤10 μm) from continuous filter samples collected during an extended two-months winter period at the urban background Sarajevo and remote Ivan Sedlo sites. We report the results of 18 metals detected by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry (ETAAS). The average mass concentrations of metals were higher at the Sarajevo site than at Ivan Sedlo and ranged from 0.050 ng/m3 (Co) to 188 ng/m3 (Fe) and from 0.021 ng/m3 (Co) to 61.8 ng/m3 (Fe), respectively. The BenMAP-CE model was used for estimating the annual BiH health (50% decrease in PM2.5 would save 4760+ lives) and economic benefits (costs of $2.29B) of improving the air quality. Additionally, the integrated energy and health assessment with the ExternE model provided an initial estimate of the additional health cost of BiH’s energy system.
This paper considers art works made by the author over a gap of twenty years in response to the siege of Sarajevo (1992-1996). The first works were inspired by the then BBC War Correspondent, Martin ...Bell in his radio broadcast of 1996 in which he reflected on the tragedy of the Bosnian War. The second group of works were made as part of the AHRC funded project Art & Reconciliation and were the result of visiting Sarajevo for the first time in 2018. For this the author drew upon his experience of using collections and archives as source material, here drawing from the collection of the Museum of History in Sarajevo where the final exhibition was staged. The author reflects on the role of the artist in tackling issues of conflict when not an eyewitness and draws parallels with examples such as Michael Tippet's oratorio A Child of Our Time and Bob Dylan's The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll. The paper also considers how knitting can be used to construct a form of alternative memorial and how his own personal experiences and memories can form the foundations for new work.
•Multispectral imaging for study of the Sarajevo Haggadah.•Non-invasive scientific analysis of medieval illuminated Hebrew manuscripts.•Application of image processing techniques to recover erased ...text.
Over the last two decades, multispectral imaging (MSI) has established itself as the most important tool in recovering illegible text in erased or damaged manuscripts, and to a lesser extent as an aid to the codicological study of manuscript supports and media. Rarely, however, have spectral imaging initiatives involved Hebrew illuminated manuscripts. In 2022, an international team of scholars, imaging scientists, and conservators from the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Lazarus Project of the University of Rochester imaged the Sarajevo Haggadah multispectrally. Produced for a Jewish commissioner and housed at the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this 14th-century illuminated manuscript contains, inter alia, a partially erased text of a sale contract on folio 106v* that is now newly legible. Codicological details of the manuscript – ink, stains, type of animal used for parchment – have also benefitted from material analysis via MSI.
Herein, we describe the MSI process of the Sarajevo Haggadah and the application of image processing algorithms to recover the erased text on folio 106v*. A complete text of a sale contract is revealed for the first time, providing significant information about the ownership and provenance of the Sarajevo Haggadah at the beginning of the 16th century.
The siege of Sarajevo has altered the experience of ethnicity, reconfiguring ethnic categories into moral boundaries. From 1992 to 1995, the city was held under siege by the Army of Republika Srpska, ...and many Sarajevan Serbs still grapple today with the feeling that others view them as aggressors. Based on one year of ethnographic fieldwork with Serb women of the pre-war generations, I describe how they intentionally make small alterations in gesture and body language in order to perform ethnic ambiguity, and avoid being read by others as Serb. While anthropological accounts have tended to use performativity to emphasize the constructed and situational nature of ethnicity, here I focus on the anxiety that drives Serb women’s performances in order to capture the inherent and inescapable feeling of ethnicity in a post-war space. I also discuss the difficulty of capturing this anxiety through empirical methods, navigating the discrepancy between Serb women’s narrative accounts of ethnic stigmatization compared to the apparently unproblematic flow of everyday social life. Through this discrepancy, I demonstrate how the embodied and ever-accumulating feeling of ethnic anxiety can conjure threats where there may be none, and how it can charge even the most (seemingly) mundane encounters.
Rad prikazuje cjelokupan proces analiziranja postojećeg stanja zgrade Osnovne škole Saburina u Sarajevu, dobivene rezultate stvarnih energetskih potreba zgrade i emisije CO2, modele transformacije ...postojeće zgrade u energetski učinkovite i različitosti modaliteta energetske sanacije. Zgrada na kojoj se provodilo istraživanje građena je u razdoblju između dva svjetska rata.
This article presents the entire analysis of the Primary School building Saburina in Sarajevo, the obtained results regarding the actual energy needs of the building and CO2 emission, models of transforming the existing building into an energy-efficient one and diverse energy rehabilitation models. The building selected for the analysis was built between the two World Wars.
The coupled tectonic and depositional history of extensional basins is usually described in terms of stratigraphic sequences linked with the activity of normal faults. This depositional-kinematic ...interplay is less understood in basins bounded by major extensional detachments or normal fault systems associated with significant exhumation of footwalls. Of particular interest is the link between tectonics and sedimentation during the migration of normal faulting in time and space across the basin. One area where such coupled depositional-kinematic history can be optimally studied is the Late Oligocene - Miocene Sarajevo-Zenica Basin, located in the Dinarides Mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This intra-montane basin recorded Oligocene – Pliocene sedimentation in an endemic and isolated lake environment. We use field kinematic and sedimentological mapping in outcrops correlated with existing local and regional studies to derive a high-resolution evolutionary model of the basin. The novel results demonstrate a close correlation between moments of normal faulting and high-order sedimentological cycles, while the overall extensional basin was filled by a largely uni-directional sediment supply from the neighbouring mountain chain. The migration in time and space of listric NE-dipping normal faults was associated with a gradual shift of the sedimentological environment. Transgressive-regressive cycles reflect sequential displacements on normal faults and their footwall exhumation, defining a new sedimentological model for such basins. This Early - Middle Miocene extension affected the central part of the Dinarides and was associated with the larger opening of the neighbouring Pannonian Basin. The extension was preceded and followed by two phases of contraction. The Oligocene - Early Miocene thrusting took place during the final stages of the Dinarides collision, while the post-Middle Miocene contraction is correlated with the regional indentation of the Adriatic continental unit. This latter phase inverted the extensional basin by reactivating the inherited basal listric detachment.
•Coupled tectonic and depositional model of asymmetric extensional basins.•Distribution of transgressive-regressive cycles reflects migration of deformation across the basin.•The final stages of Dinarides orogenic evolution are recorded in the basin.
Razni družbenopolitični in gospodarski dejavniki so postopno povzročili obsežno zanemarjanje, propadanje, zlorabo in izgubo javnih prostorov v Sarajevu. Navzkrižje zasebnih in javnih interesov je na ...mestu pustilo dejanske sledi in v takih okoliščinah se zdi Lefebvrov koncept pravice do mesta še toliko pomembnejši. Z vidika sodobnega urbanega razvoja Sarajeva se navedena pravica nanaša na pravico do oblikovanja, uporabe, ponovne uporabe in ponovne aktivacije zanemarjenih skupnih prostorov v mestu. Kot je razvidno že iz naslova članka, je ključno vprašanje, s katerim se avtorici ukvarjata, komu javni prostor sploh pripada. V raziskavi najprej določita ključne težave, povezane s propadanjem javnih prostorov, nato pa ovrednotita prevladujoče načrtovalske pristope in občasne pobude od spodaj navzgor. Predpostavljata, da so razpršenost in pomanjkanje ustreznih geoprostorskih podatkov o javnih prostorih ter nesoglasja med glavnimi deležniki med ključnimi vzroki proučevanega problema. Predstavili sta tudi metodologijo za uvedbo obsežne, prosto dostopne interaktivne geoprostorske podatkovne zbirke kot platforme za strateško načrtovanje, oblikovanje, razvoj in vzdrževanje javnih mestnih prostorov.
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