Gender, Ethnicity and the Nation-State:
Anatolia and Its Neighboring Regions
Sabancı University
in collaboration with
the International Hrant Dink Foundation and Anadolu Kültür
May 21-24, 2009
Istanbul
Drawing on Hrant Dink?s legacy of highlighting existing human connections and imagining new ones across physical and imagined borders, Hrant Dink Memorial Workshops seek to initiate and encourage interdisciplinary academic dialogue among scholars working on Anatolia and its neighboring regions.
Gender and ethnicity have been key categories of differentiation and conflict in nationalisms and nation-states, interacting with each other in multiple ways. Hrant Dink Memorial Workshop 2009 focuses on the ways in which constructions and transformations of gender and ethnicity in and beyond nation-states have shaped Anatolia and its neighboring regions in the 20th century.
Location: Tütün Deposu (Hacı Mimi Mahallesi, Lüleci Hendek Caddesi No: 12, Tophane, Istanbul), click here for the map
Participation: Saturday events are open to the public, but reservation is required for participation in the workshop on Thursday, Friday and Sunday. For registration, please fill out the registration form and send to hrantdink-workshop@sabanciuniv.edu
May 21 |
Thursday |
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| 17.00 | Film screening and discussion | Chair: Ayşe Öncü (Sabancı U) |
| Kapıları Açmak Opening Doors |
Ülker Uncu & Burcu Yıldız (Kardeş Türküler) Takuhi Tovmasyan & Pakrat Estukyan (Sayat Nova Choir) |
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| 40. Kapıyı Açarsan… If you Open the 40th Room… |
Talin Büyükkürkçiyan | |
| Opening Reception |
May 22 |
Friday |
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| 9.30 ? 10.00 | Opening Remarks | |
| 10.00 ? 12.00 | Memories and Testimonies | Discussant: Hülya Adak (Sabancı U) Chair: Karin Karakaşlı (Writer) |
| Arlene Voski Avakian (UMASS, Amherst) | Powerful Silences: Becoming a Survivor Through the Construction of Story | |
| Hourig Attarian (McGill U) | Lifelines: Matrilineal Narratives, Memory and Identity | |
| Rev. Daniel (Kuban State U) | Trabzon: Family Memory and Making of Personality | |
| Arpine Konyalian Grenier (Research scientist & Poet) | Heritage Like Money Then: Exaptation at the Margins /Risk to Reward Where the Word Meets Itself | |
| 12.00 ? 13.00 | Lunch break | |
| 13.00 ? 14.30 | Educating and ?Civilizing? the Nation | Discussant: Elif Ekin Akşit (Ankara U) Chair: Fatoş Gökşen (Koç U) |
| Nazan Maksudyan (Sabancı U) |
Physical Expressions of Winning Hearts and Minds: Missionary Aspirations over Children?s Bodies in the Late Ottoman Period | |
| Zeynep Türkyılmaz (UCLA) | White Women?s Burden: Educating the ?Mountain Flowers? of Dersim | |
| Metin Yüksel (U of Chicago) | Training Kurdish Men and Women in Turkey: Mobile Village Courses in the “Eastern Provinces? | |
| 14.30 ? 15.00 | Coffee/Tea | |
| 15.00 ? 16.00 | Ethnicized and Nationalized Masculinities | Discussant: Serpil Sancar (Ankara U) Chair: Ferhat Kentel (İstanbul Bilgi U) |
| Arus Yumul (İstanbul Bilgi U) | Fashioning the Turkish Body Politic | |
| Yeliz Kızılarslan (İstanbul Bilgi U) |
Gendered Ethnicity, Hegemonic Masculinities, and the Kurdish Question in the Girl of Yezid | |
| 16.00 ? 16.30 | Coffee/Tea | |
| 16.30 ? 19.00 | Contemporary Constructions of Kurdishness and Armenianness | Discussant: Deniz Yükseker (Koç U) Chair: Fuat Keyman (Koç U) |
| Dicle Koğacıoğlu (Sabancı U) | Knowledge and Political Community in Discourses on Honor Crimes | |
| Rojda Alaç (EHESS) | ?I understand you?? : Taking Women?s Empowerment Literally | |
| Nerina Weiss (U of Oslo) | When Spheres Collapse: Conflict, Gender and Perceptions of Belonging in a Kurdish Community | |
| Emel Karagöz & Akın Deveci (Kocaeli U) | Reading the Other, Through the Other: Representation of Armenian Identity in The Agos Newspaper |
May 23 |
Saturday |
Public Panels |
| 9.00 ? 11.00 | Gender, Ethnicity and History | Discussant: Ferhunde Özbay (Boğaziçi U) Chair: İnci Kerestecioğlu (İstanbul U) |
| Fethiye Çetin (author of Anneannem) |
Anneannem Across Borders | |
| Ruben Melkonyan (Yerevan State U) |
The Image Of The Islamized Armenian Women In Modern Turkish Literature | |
| Ayşe Gül Altınay (Sabancı U) | (Unraveling) Layers of Gendered Silencing: Converted Armenian Survivors of 1915 in Historical And Contemporary Works | |
| Karin Karakaşlı (Writer) | Old History, New Language | |
| 11.00 ? 11.15 | Coffee/Tea | |
| 11.15 ? 12.30 | Film screening and discussion | |
| Finding Zabel Yesayan Zabel Yesayan’ı Bulmak | Chair: Betül Tanbay (International Hrant Dink Foundation)Discussion with directors Talin Suciyan & Lara Aharonian |
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| 12.30 ? 13.00 | Lunch | |
| 13.00 ? 14.30 | Ottoman Women Writers: Zabel Yesayan & Halide Edib on Gender, Ethnicity and Violence | Discussant: Murat Belge (İstanbul Bilgi U) Chair: Müge İplikçi (PEN Turkey Women Writers Committee) |
| Marc Nichanian (Sabancı U) | Mourning Usurped: Zabel Essayan | |
| Hülya Adak (Sabancı U) | 1915-16 in Halide Edib?s Life History and Works | |
| İpek Çalışlar (Writer) | The Armenian Question in Halide Edib?s Writings | |
| 14.30 ? 14.45 | Coffee/Tea | |
| 14.45 ? 16.45 | Art and Politics Across Borders | Discussant: Ayfer Bartu (Boğaziçi U) Chair: Sibel Yardımcı (Mimar Sinan U) |
| Neery Melkonian (Independent Art Critic/Curator) | A Feminism that is Often Accented, Sometimes Whispers, Even Stutters: Modern and Contemporary Armenian Woman Artists in Transnational Contexts | |
| Anna Barseghian and Stefan Kristensen (Utopiana) | ?Voyage in the Land of the Ghosts? & Armenography | |
| Osman Kavala (Anadolu Kültür) |
Art, Politics and Reconciliation | |
| 16.45 ? 17.00 | Coffee/Tea | |
| 17.00 ? 19.00 | Gender, Ethnicity and Feminist Politics | Discussant: Şirin Tekeli Chair: Yeşim Arat (Boğaziçi U) |
| Nebahat Akkoç Handan Çağlayan Pınar Selek & Nil Mutluer Yeşim Başaran |
Diyarbakır KAMER Kırk Örük Amargi Lambdaistanbul |
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| 19.00 ? 20.00 | Reception | |
| 20.00 | Rakel Dink | Introduction |
| Arpine Konyalian Grenier Karin Karakaşlı |
Poetry Reading |
May 24 |
Sunday |
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| 9.30 ? 11.30 | Gender & Ethnicity: The Balkans and Anatolia | Discussant: Ayşe Parla (Sabancı U) Chair: Buket Türkmen (Galatasaray U) |
| Halide Velioğlu (U of Texas, Austin) |
Remnants of Ottomans, Excesses of International Order: Political Life of Bosniaks? Feelings | |
| Milena Davidovic (Institute for Criminology and Sociology, Belgrade) | Gender and Ethnicity: The Case of Kosovo | |
| Anastasia Kamanos (McGill U) |
(Re)Covering Identities: Ethnicity, Gender and Narrative | |
| Sophia Koufopoulou (Michigan State U) | ?Biz de Avrupalı?and the Swirling Dervish Father: Cundalı Giritli Women and the Politics of Turkishness | |
| 11.30 ? 11.45 | Coffee/Tea | |
| 11.45 ? 13.15 | Gender & Ethnicity: Caucasia and Anatolia I |
Discussant: Lale Yalçın-Heckmann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) Chair: Nedim Nomer (Sabancı U) |
| Nona Shahnazarian (Kuban Social and Economic Institute) |
?Why divide the nation into men and women??: National Ideologies, Survival Strategies and Gender Identity in the Political and Symbolic Contexts of the Karabakh War | |
| Rita Kuznetsova & Igor Kuznetsov (Kuban State U) | ?(Gendered) Unwritten Culture?: Turkish Armenians, Ahiska Turks, Abkhaz | |
| Akram Khamseh (Alzahra U) |
A study on the Diversity of Gender Role Stereotypes in Two Groups of Iranian College Students: A Comparison Between Iranian Kurdish and Persian (Farsi) Females and Males | |
| 13.15 ? 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 ? 15.15 | Gender & Ethnicity: Caucasia and Anatolia I |
Discussant: Işık Özel (Sabancı U) Chair: Ayşe Durakbaşa (Marmara U) |
| Vladimir Igorevich Kolesov (Krasnodar State Historical & Archeological Museum) | Marriage Strategy and Nationalism (Circassian Greeks’ case) | |
| Setenay Nil Doğan (Sabancı U) |
?Circassian Beauty?: A Myth in Anatolia | |
| 15.15 ? 15.30 | Coffee/Tea | |
| 15.30 ? 16.45 | Gender, Ethnicity and Sexualities I | Discussant: Ayşegül Baykan (Yıldız Technical U) Chair: Fikret Adanır (Sabancı U) |
| Ayşe Kadıoğlu (Sabancı U) | Bir Varmış, Bir Yokmuş: Representations of Sexuality in Edgar Hilsenrath?s ?Fairy Tale? | |
| Halil Berktay (Sabancı U) | ?Our men their women?: Turkish-Muslim Men and the Dangerous Sexuality of Non-Muslim Women in Ottoman-Turkish Literature | |
| 16.45 ? 17.00 | Coffee/Tea | |
| 17.00 ? 18.30 | Gender, Ethnicity and Sexualities II | Discussant: Hale Bolak (İstanbul Bilgi U) Chair: Şahika Yüksel (İstanbul U) |
| Serkan Delice (U of the Arts, London) |
Masculinity as a Fractured Domain: The Political Implications of Revisiting Male Intimacies in Ottoman Society | |
| Eser Selen (NYU) | Modernity Misconstrued: Religious Patriarchy vs. Secular Patriarchy in Ugly Humanling [Çirkin Insan Yavrusu] | |
| Stefan Detchev (South-West U of Blagoevgrad) | ?Tenderness too incomprehensible ?? (Homo)sexuality, Ethnicity and Politics in Modern and Contemporary Bulgaria | |
| 18.30 ? 19.00 | Open discussion |
Organizing Committee
Akşin Somel
Ayşe Kadıoğlu
Ayşe Gül Altınay
Fikret Adanır
Hülya Adak
Işık Özel
Lanfranco Aceti
Leyla Keough
Nedim Nomer
* The workshop has been made possible with the generous support of the Chrest Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, Sabancı University and Anadolu Kültür.
* The visual material for the workshop (including the website, poster and brochures) have been designed by Emre Parlak and Deniz Cem Önduygu.