Hrant Dink Memorial Workshop
Hrant Dink Memorial Workshop
Silenced but
Resilient:
Language and
Memory in Anatolia and Neighboring Regions
Sabancı University
in collaboration with Anadolu Kültür
May 27-29, 2010, Cezayir Meeting Hall, Galatasaray, İstanbul
We are pleased to announce our third workshop in memory of Hrant Dink. The
theme of this year’s workshop is “Silenced but Resilient: Language and memory in
Anatolia and Neighboring Regions”
Turkish / English translation is available for the panels.
Please register by writing to hrantdink-workshop@sabanciuniv.edu
May 27 |
Thursday |
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| 17.00-18:30 | Opening Event: Reflections on Art, Language, and Memory |
Moderators: Osman Kavala (Anadolu Kültür), Banu Karaca (Sabancı University) |
| Silvina Der-Meguerditchian | The Texture of Absence | |
| Helin Anahit (Middlesex University) |
Fading Voices: A Project Based on Anatolian Polyglot Folk Tradition of Coffee Cup Readings |
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| 19.00 | Opening Reception |
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May 28 |
Friday |
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| 9.30 – 10.00 | Coffee/Tea |
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| 10.00 – 12.00 | Belonging and Otherness in Literature | Chair: Jale Parla (Bilgi University) Discussant: Marc Nichanian (Sabancı University) |
| Arlene Voski Avakian (UMASS, Amherst) | Baklava as Home: Exile and Arab Cooking in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Novel Crescent |
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| Alparslan Nas (Sabancı University) | Mıgırdiç Margosyan: Togetherness of Autobiography and the Novel on the Road to ‘Minor Literature’: Toward Becoming-Minor in Turkey |
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| Efe Çakmak (Columbia University) | Literature is Guilty: Edib, Humanism, Colonialism |
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| Sema Bulutsuz (Istanbul University) | Places and Symbols of Collective Memory in Leyla Erbil |
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| 12.00 – 13.30 | Lunch break |
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| 13.30 – 15.30 | Political Translatability | Chair: Bülent Bilmez (Bilgi University) Discussant: Umut Azak (Okan University) |
| Sanem Salgırlı (Marmara University) |
Internal Colonialism at Large: Medical Language in the Construction of the Turkish Nation-State |
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| Kelda Jamison (University of Chicago) |
Public Kurdish and the Politics of Legitimate Language in Turkey |
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| Armen Grigoryan (Analytical Center on Globalisation and Regional Cooperation, Yerevan) |
Language of Politics, Intellectuals and Nation-Building |
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| Phil Gamaghelyan (Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation, Boston) |
Including the Other: De-Constructing the ‘Us vs. Them’ Dichotomy in Turkish-Armenian Conflict |
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| 15.30 – 16.00 | Coffee/Tea |
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| 16.00 – 18.00 | The Roles and Discourses of Intellectuals |
Chair/ Discussant: Fikret Adanır (Sabancı University) |
| Seyhan Bayraktar (University of Zurich) |
Politics, Memory, Language: Changes, Continuities and Breaks in the Discourse about the Armenian Genocide in Turkey |
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| Ayda Erbal (New York University) |
MeaCulpas, Negotiations, Apologias: Revisiting the ‘Apology’ of Turkish Intellectuals |
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| Bilgin Ayata (Johns Hopkins University) |
Critical Inquiries on Reconciliation Discourses in Turkey |
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| Ferhat Kentel (İstanbul Şehir University) |
Facing Turkey’s Past: Healing and Ailing |
May 29 |
Saturday |
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| 9.00 – 10.30 |
Linguistic Multiplicity |
Chair: Haldun Gülalp (Yıldız Technical University)Discussant: Biray Kolluoğlu (Boğaziçi University) |
| Alice von Bieberstein (University of Cambridge) |
Intimate Abject: The Turkish Language within the Armenian Diaspora in Berlin |
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| Nona Shakhnazarian (Kuban Social and Economic Institute) |
‘In Russia we are Muslims, in Turkey - Gyavurs…’ Black Sea Frontier Zone, Soviet Era Deportations, and the Language of Marginalization |
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| Christine Allison (University of Exeter) |
Works of Memory in Kurmanji: Contemporary Turkey and Soviet Armenia |
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| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee/Tea |
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| 11.00 – 12.30 |
Memory Works A | Chair: Erol Köroğlu (Boğaziçi Üniversitesi) Discussant: Valentina Calzolari (University of Geneva) |
| Yektan Türkyılmaz (Duke University) |
When Victims Become Rulers: The Armenian Regional Government in Van Province (May-July 1915) |
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| Talin Bahçıvanoğlu (Humboldt University at Berlin) |
Dersim: A Lived Environment from the Perspective of the Armenian Witnesses |
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| Ramazan Aras (University of Western Ontario) |
Language, Body and Sovereignty: Memories of Incarceration, Corporeal Punishment and Resistance from the Prison of Amed/Diyarbakır in the 1980s |
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| 12.30 – 14.00 | Lunch |
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| 14.00 – 16.00 | Memory Works B | Chair/ Discussant: Arzu Öztürkmen (Boğaziçi University) |
| Burcu Yıldız (Istanbul Technical University) |
Performing Home Through Performing its Music: Onnik Dinkjian and his Dikranagertsi (Diyarbakır) Music |
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| Laurence Ritter (Caucasus Institute, Yerevan) |
Converted and Hidden Armenians in Turkey: Silent Voices of the Past into the Present Days |
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| Leyla Neyzi (Sabancı University) |
Remembering 1915: Language Use in Postmemories of Turks, Kurds and Armenians in Turkey |
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| Louis Fishman (City University of New York) |
Remnants of the Past/Present: Jews, Greeks, and Armenians as Historical/Living Artifacts |
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| 16.00 – 16.30 | Coffee/Tea |
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| 16.30 – 18.00 | Cultural Translatability |
Chair: Hülya Adak (Sabancı University) Discussant: Şenay Özden (Koç University) |
| Defne Ayas (Blind Dates Project) |
Blind Dates: Challenges and Troves of a Curatorial Process |
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| David Kazanjian (University of Pennsylvania) |
Kinships Past, Kinship’s Futures |
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| Ruken Şengül (The University of Texas at Austin) |
Lost in Translation, Or Found? Contesting Kinship, Community and State in the East through the Institution of Kirvelik |
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Parallel Events
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| May 28, Friday 19.00 Tütün Deposu |
Exhibit Opening |
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| Helin Anahit | Talking Openly | |
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| May 30, Sunday 17.30Cezayir Meeting Hall |
PanelTalking Openly: You, Me and the Others (organized by Helin Anahit) |
Moderator: Ayşe Öncü (Sabancı University)Asuman Suner (Istanbul Technical University) Ayfer Bartu (Boğaziçi University) Cengiz Aktar (Bahçeşehir University) Ferhat Kentel (Istanbul Şehir University) Zafer Yenal (Boğaziçi University) |