Hrant Dink Memorial Workshop: New Forms of Social Protest
Sabancı University in collaboration with Hrant Dink Foundation and Istanbul Policy Center
May 25-26, 2012
Cezayir Meeting Hall, Galatasaray, Istanbul
Turkish / English translation will be available throughout the conference.
Please register by writing to hrantdink-workshop@sabanciuniv.edu
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| May 25 | FRIDAY | |
| 9:00-11.30 | I. Politics and Memory | Chair: Rober Koptaş (Agos) |
| Opening Remarks New Oppositional Forms: The Politics of Shared Differences | Fatmagül Berktay (İstanbul University) | |
| Rethinking Diyarbakır Prison: Musealization as Resistance Activism | Alparslan Nas (Sabancı University) | |
| Strategies and Tactics of Architectural Memorialization in ?Witness-Sites?: the Case of the Madımak Hotel | Eray Çaylı (University College London) | |
| Renovation as Resistance: The Restoration of the Habap Fountains | Anoush Suni (Sabancı University) | |
| 11:30-13.30 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK | |
| 12:00-13:30 | II. Occupation as Social Protest | Chair: Ayfer Bartu (Boğaziçi University) |
| What About Occupy?: An Integrative Approach to Political Protest Movements | Jermaine Ma (Bilkent University) | |
| Counter Occupation and the Commons | Umut Kocagöz (Boğaziçi University) | |
| Youth Activism at the End of History | Josef Burton (University of Washington) | |
| 13:30-14:30 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 14:30-16:30 | III. Political Engagement in Neoliberal Times | Chair: Buket Türkmen (Galatasaray University) |
| The Neoliberal Public: An Oxymoron or a Panoply of De-politicization? | Simten Coşar (Başkent University) | |
| Feminist Claims to the Public: Articulation into Neoliberal Preferences or against the TINA Argument? | İnci Özkan-Kerestecioğlu (İstanbul University) | |
| Neoliberal Politics and Corporate Culture: Dismissing with Organized Labor | Gülden Özcan (Carleton University) | |
| Broken Promises of Liberalism and The Politics of Disillusionment | Aslı Vatansever (Doğuş University) | |
| The New Activism: Rejecting Politics but Embracing Protest | Salpi Ghazarian (Civilitas Foundation) | |
| 16:30-16:45 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK | |
| 16:45-18:00 | IV. Art and Resistance | Chair: Banu Karaca (Sabancı University) |
| The Tyranny of Creativity | Begüm Özden Fırat (Mimar Sinan University) | |
| Street Art and Place Making in Krasnodar, Southern Russia | Sigrid Schiesser (University of Vienna) | |
| MediAntics: Encounters in Activating Hybrid and Augmented Space | Tina Bastajian (Universiteit van Amsterdam) | |
| 18:00-20:00 | V. Film Screening Panel: Dialogue as a Form of Resistance | Chair: Cengiz Aktar (Hrant Dink Foundation, Bahçeşehir University) |
| Multimedia for Dialogue- Memorial Workshop Special Presentation | Hrant Dink Foundation and Galata Fotoğrafhanesi | |
| The False Witness of Public Opposition: Media | Aris Nalcı (AGOS) | |
| 20:00 | RECEPTION |
| May 26 | SATURDAY | |
| 9:30-11:00 | VI. Emerging Movements, New Strategies I | Chair: Özlem Dalkıran (Friends of Hrant) |
| Human Shields | Banu Bargu (New School For Social Research) | |
| The Role of Wikileaks in Arab Revolutions as a New Course of Resistance | Emre Can Dağlıoğlu (İstanbul Bilgi University) | |
| Spheres of Counterpublics: Rituals as Protest | Pınar Büyüktaş (Université de Strasbourg) | |
| Outburst Endorsed: Citizens and Intellectuals for Hrant Dink | Okan Doğan (Bilkent University) | |
| 11:00-11:30 | COFFEE / TEA BREAK | |
| 11:30-13:00 | VII. Global Perspectives on New Forms of Social Protest | Chair: Ahmet İnsel (Galatasaray University) |
| David Graeber (Goldsmiths, University of London) | ||
| Amr Shalakany (The American University in Cairo) | ||
| 13:00-14:30 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 14:30-15.30 | VIII. Gendered Resistances | Chair: Gülayşe Koçak (Sabancı University) |
| The Problem of Race in Feminist and Queer Activism | Jennifer Petzen (Humboldt University) | |
| Revolts in the Mediterranean: From Revolution to Radical Democracy | Federica Giardini (Università Roma TRE) | |
| 15.30-16:00 | COFFEE / TEA BREAK | |
| 16:00-18:00 | IX. Emerging Movements, New Strategies II | Chair: Ateş Altınordu (Sabancı University) |
| Ecological, Ethno-cultural and Political Activism against the Hydroelectric Power Plants in Tunceli/Dersim in the 21st Century: A ?New? Social Protest Movement? | Bülent Bilmez (İstanbul Bilgi University) | |
| The Social Experiment of Greece: Re-Acting Against the System | Polina Gioltzoglou (University of Macedonia), Georgios Katsanos (University of Athens), Alexandros Kampouris (Istanbul Bilgi University) | |
| Zhanaozen Incident 2011: Social Protest, Civic Consciousness and Political Rallying | Assel Bitabarova (Hokkaido University) |
Hrant Dink memorial Workshop 2012 Organizing Committee: Ayşe Gül Altınay, Ateş Altınordu, Sibel Irzık, Ayşe Kadıoğlu, Gülayşe Koçak, Faik Kurtulmuş, Işık Özel, Mustafa Tağma
Workshop Coordinator: Fulya Kama
Workshop Assistants: Ezgi Şeref, Emel Güner, Ezgi Güner, Erdinç Erdem
Workshop poster by Emre Parlak