Assoc. Prof. HARIS DERVIŠEVIĆ, PhD

Haris Dervišević is an associate professor at the Department of History of Art of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo. He teaches at the Faculty of Philosophy (University of Sarajevo), Faculty of Architecture (University of Sarajevo) and at the specialized university study program, Interior Design (Džemal Bijedić University in Mostar). The main subject of his research is Islamic art, with a focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina. He ran a cycle of lectures at the University of Lisbon (Instituto de História da Arte, 2017) and a cycle of lectures at the University of Graz (Institut für Kunstgeschichte, 2019; Zentrum für Südosteuropastudien, 2023). He has participated in local and international projects such as Tempus Project and Curricular Reform of Heritage Sciences in Bosnia and Herzegovina – BIHERIT. At the moment, he is involved in the project Under the Sky of Cheerful Faith: Islam and Europe in the Bosnian Experience (Riyasat of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina), and Islamic Architecture and Orientalizing Style in Habsburg Bosnia, 1878-1918 (Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien/European Research Council). Haris Dervišević is the author of many academic, review, professional and popular works, as well as of texts in dailies, weeklies and online journals. Together with Kenan Šurković, he was an editor-in-chief of the Radovi s međunarodnog simpozija Islamska umjetnost u Bosni i Hercegovini (Proceedings of the International Symposium Islamic Arts in Bosnia and Herzegovina) published in 2021. Together with Ćazim Hadžimejlić he is the co-author of academic monograph 40 bosanskohercegovačkih mushafa (The Forty Mushafs from Bosnia and Herzegovina) published in 2022. He has participated in setting up several significant exhibitions. He initiated and led organization of local and international academic conferences. He acted as the director of program of the 2nd Sarajevo Ramadan Festival – a festival of Islamic arts and culture in 2015. He has received several fellowships and recognitions such as The Best in Heritage Travel Fellowship (2006, 2008), and The Hamad bin Khalifa Travel Fellowship (2009). He is a member of the international Historians of the Islamic Art Association (HIAA), International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), International Council of Museums (ICOM), International Committee for Museums and Collections of Fine Arts (ICFA), International Scientific Committee on Places of Religion and Ritual (PRERICO), Council of the Congress of Bosniak Intellectuals (VKBI), and the Parent Committee of Preporod, the Bosniak association of culture.