Coming to Terms with War, Genocide, and Political Violence
Sabancı University in collaboration with Hrant Dink Foundation and Anadolu Kültür
May 31 ? June 2, 2013
Sabancı University, Minerva Palas, Karaköy, Istanbul
Turkish / English translation will be available throughout the conference.
Please register by writing to hrantdink-workshop@sabanciuniv.edu
Click here for a copy of the workshop program.
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| MAY 31 | FRIDAY | |
| 15:30-17.30 | Parallel Event I: Coming to Terms through Art | LOCATION: DEPO |
| Visiting the Exhibit Bearing Witness to the Lost History of an Armenian Family through the Lens of the Dildilian Brothers (1872-1923) | ||
| Open Forum Osman Kavala (Anadolu Kültür) Armen Tsolag Marsoobian (Southern Connecticut State University & Columbia University) |
Moderator: Asena Günal (DEPO) | |
| 20:30-21.30 | Parallel Event II: Coming to Terms through Theater | |
| DISKO 5 NO’LU
Theater performance followed by a discussion with Berfîn Zenderlioğlu and Mîrza Metîn Nivîskar/Yazan/Playwright: Mîrza Metîn In Kurdish, with Turkish subtitles For Reservation and Tickets, please call: + 90212 243 74 36 / +90 507 818 21 51 |
Location: Şermola Performans
Address: Istiklal cd. Imam Adnan-Nane sk. no:5 kat:2 Beyoğlu Istanbul |
| JUNE 1 | SATURDAY | LOCATION: Minerva Palas |
| 9:00-10:30 | Coming to Terms with the Armenian Genocide I | Moderator: Oktay Özel (Bilkent University) |
| Dealing with the Armenian Genocide in Turkey: Being Pressured Between Tacit Agreement of Silencing and Exterminatory Hatred | Taner Akçam (Clark University) | |
| Hrant Dink Foundation History Conferences | Cengiz Aktar (Hrant Dink Foundation) | |
| Habab Fountain Project | Fethiye Çetin (Hrant Dink Foundation) | |
| 10:30-11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Coming to Terms with the Armenian Genocide II | Moderator: Fikret Adanır (Sabancı University) |
| The WATS Journey: Significant Turning Points | Fatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan) | |
| Catching Up with 1915: A Hundred Years Later | Ronald Grigor Suny (University of Michigan) | |
| Before and after the 2005 Conference: Problems of Pursuing Truth, Persuading the Public, and Seeking Justice | Halil Berktay (Sabancı University) | |
| 12:30-14:00 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Defining Genocide: Law and Politics | Moderator: Setenay Nil Doğan (Yıldız Technical University) |
| Politics of Genocide and Apology: The Namibian-German case | Reinhart Kössler (Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut) | |
| How Many Genocides? Concept Formation and the Study of Mass Violence | Charles King (Georgetown University) | |
| On the Use and Usefulness of International Criminal Tribunals in Coming to Terms With the Past: A Case Study of International Criminal Tribunal for Former-Yugoslavia | Ozan Erözden (Yıldız Technical University) | |
| 15:30-15:45 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 15:45-17:15 | Memories across Generations | Moderator: Biray Kolluoğlu (Boğaziçi University) |
| Psychic Impact of Intergenerational Transmission of Massive Trauma | Sibel Halfon (Sabancı University) | |
| Youth and History in Turkey: To Remember or To Forget? | Leyla Neyzi (Sabancı University) | |
| Micro-histories of Holocaust as a Strategy to Coming to Terms with the Past | Andrea Petö (Central European University) |
| JUNE 2 | SUNDAY | LOCATION: Minerva Palas |
| 9:00-10:45 | Coming to Terms with Political Violence in the Ottoman Empire | Moderator: Mehmet Ö. Alkan (Istanbul University) |
| Coming to terms with the Adana Massacres | Sinan Dinçer (Leiden University) | |
| Haunting Justice: The Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian | Başak Ertür (Birkbeck College) | |
| Legal? and ?Official? Plundering of Armenian Properties during the Armenian Genocide: Grappling with ?Existence? and ?Absence? | Ümit Kurt (Clark University) | |
| The Politics of Remembering: Massacres against Non-Muslims in Kurdish Novelistic Discourse | Özlem Galip (University of Oxford) | |
| 10:45-11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:00-12:45 | Facing History, Challenging Official Narratives | Moderator: Ömer Turan (Bilgi University) |
| Facing History after State Socialism: Spectacles of Secrecy, Transparency, and Violence in Poland | Saygun Gökarıksel (City University of New York) | |
| Changing the State?s Story: Continuity and Change in States? Narratives of Dark Pasts | Jennifer Dixon (Villanova University) | |
| Reconstituting Citizenship: Trauma, Memory, and Justice in Turkey | Duygu Gül (York University) | |
| Proving Origins: Armenian Converts? and Bulgarian Turkish Migrants? Encounters with the Law and the Governance of Sameness and Difference | Ayşe Parla (Sabancı University) & Ceren Özgül (City University of New York) | |
| 12:45-14:00 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 14:00-16:00 | Memory Work: Narration, Documentation, Commemoration | Moderator: Sibel Irzık (Sabancı University) |
| Memory Work in Germany | Gert Weisskirchen | |
| Post-Conflict Architecture: Coming To Terms with the Past and Urban Reconstruction | Gruia Badescu (University of Cambridge) | |
| Memory is always more than the prison house of the past: Practices of Remembrance, Forgetting and the Musealization of Political Violence at the Ulucanlar Cezaevi Müzesi in Ankara | Marc Herzog (British Institute at Ankara) | |
| Reconciling in the Diaspora? The Case of a Network of Turks, Armenians and Others in London | Sossie Kasbarian (University of Lancaster) & Kerem Öktem (University of Oxford) | |
| 16:00-16:15 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16:15-17:45 | Facing Political Violence: Media and Activist Accounts | Moderator: Ayşe Öncü (Sabancı University) |
| Repositioned / Re-Signified: Violence as a Bond? Reflections from the Turkish-Greek Encounters of the Left in the 1980s and 90s | Leonidas Karakatsanis (British Institute at Ankara) | |
| In a Lego Village Made of Words: Writing about the No Man?s Land Writers | Mirna-Radin Sabados (University of Novi Sad) | |
| The Soft Underbelly of Militarism: Media Representations of Disabled Veterans of Korea, Cyprus and the Southeast | Nurseli Yeşim Sünbüloğlu (University of Sussex) |
Hrant Dink memorial Workshop 2013 Organizing Committee: Ateş Altınordu, Ayşe Gül Altınay, Çağla Aydın, Faik Kurtulmuş, Fikret Adanır, Gülayşe Koçak, Nedim Nomer, Sibel Irzık
Workshop Coordinator: Fulya Kama
Workshop poster by Emre Parlak
Made possible thanks to the generous support of
