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 (Cezayir Lokantası üstü)
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 | |
| 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 | |
| 19.00 | Opening Reception | |
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May 28 |
Friday |
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| 9.30 ? 10.00 | Coffee/Tea | |
| 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 | |
| Alparslan Nas (Sabancı University) | Mıgırdiç Margosyan: Togetherness of Autobiography and the Novel on the Road to ?Minor Literature?: Toward Becoming-Minor in Turkey | |
| Efe Çakmak (Columbia University) | Literature is Guilty: Edib, Humanism, Colonialism | |
| Sema Bulutsuz (Istanbul University) | Places and Symbols of Collective Memory in Leyla Erbil | |
| 12.00 ? 13.30 | Lunch break | |
| 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 | |
| Kelda Jamison
(University of Chicago) |
Public Kurdish and the Politics of Legitimate Language in Turkey | |
| Armen Grigoryan (Analytical Center on Globalisation and Regional Cooperation, Yerevan) | Language of Politics, Intellectuals and Nation-Building | |
| Phil Gamaghelyan (Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation, Boston) | Including the Other: De-Constructing the ?Us vs. Them? Dichotomy in Turkish-Armenian Conflict | |
| 15.30 ? 16.00 | Coffee/Tea | |
| 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 | |
| Ayda Erbal
(New York University) |
MeaCulpas, Negotiations, Apologias: Revisiting the ?Apology? of Turkish Intellectuals | |
| Bilgin Ayata
(Johns Hopkins University) |
Critical Inquiries on Reconciliation Discourses in Turkey | |
| Ferhat Kentel
(İstanbul Şehir University) |
Facing Turkey’s Past: Healing and Ailing | |
| May 29 | Saturday | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Christine Allison (University of Exeter) | Works of Memory in Kurmanji: Contemporary Turkey and Soviet Armenia | |
| 10.30 ? 11.00 | Coffee/Tea | |
| 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) | |
| Talin Bahçıvanoğlu (Humboldt University at Berlin) | Dersim: A Lived Environment from the Perspective of the Armenian Witnesses | |
| 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 | |
| 12.30 ? 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 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 | |
| Laurence Ritter (Caucasus Institute, Yerevan) | Converted and Hidden Armenians in Turkey: Silent Voices of the Past into the Present Days | |
| Leyla Neyzi (Sabancı University) | Remembering 1915: Language Use in Postmemories of Turks, Kurds and Armenians in Turkey | |
| Louis Fishman (City University of New York) | Remnants of the Past/Present: Jews, Greeks, and Armenians as Historical/Living Artifacts | |
| 16.00 ? 16.30 | Coffee/Tea | |
| 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 | |
| David Kazanjian (University of Pennsylvania) | Kinships Past, Kinship?s Futures | |
| 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 | |
| Parallel Events | ||
| May 28, Friday 19.00 Tütün Deposu | Exhibit Opening | |
| Helin Anahit | Talking Openly | |
| 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) |
Click here for the program in pdf.
Türkçe program için tıklayınız.
Organizing committee: Fikret Adanır, Ayşe Gül Altınay, Burcu Gürsel, Banu Karaca, Gülayşe Koçak, Leyla Neyzi, Işık Özel
Workshop Assistants: Fulya Kama Özelkan, Nora Tataryan
Poster and program design by Emre Parlak
Hrant Dink Memorial Workshop 2010 has been made possible thanks to the generous support of Sabancı University, Anadolu Kültür, Chrest Foundation, Global Dialogue, Open Society Foundation and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung