Genocide of the Ottoman Armenians in Art, Theater, Cinema, and Literature
Sabancı University in colloboration with Istanbul Policy Center and Anadolu Kültür
Sabancı University, Minerva Palas, Karaköy, Istanbul
Turkish / English translation will be available throughout the conference.
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Thursday, November 5
| 9.00 – 10.30 | Canon & Cannon | Discussant: Ayşe Gül Altınay |
| Murat Cankara | Literary Denial: Turkish Literary Studies and Interpreting the Representation of the Other | |
| Banu Karaca | “When everything has been said before…”: Dispossession and the Politics of Art in Turkey | |
| Carolyn Rapkevian | Memory, Art and Metaphor in Museums of Contentious History | |
| 10.30 – 10.45 | Coffee/Tea | |
| 10.45 – 12.15 | Cracks in the Canon | Discussant: Sibel Irzık |
| Jennifer Manoukian | Disrupting Literature in Diaspora: Zareh Vorpouni and the Nouveau Roman | |
| Sernaz Arslan | The State and Its Discontents: The Shadow of the Genocide in Novels of Kemal Tahir and Orhan Kemal | |
| Adnan Çelik & Ergin Öpengin | The Armenian Genocide in the Kurdish Novel: Restructuring Identity Through Collective Memory | |
| 12.15 – 13.45 | Lunch | |
| 13.45 – 15.15 | From Ravished Armenia to Ararat: Cinema and the Genocide | Discussant: Melis Behlil |
| Eric Nazarian | The Armenian Genocide and Diaspora on Film: A Visual Presentation and Lecture | |
| Esin Paça Cengiz | Representing the Armenian Genocide: Trauma, History and the Politics of Representation | |
| Öykü Gürpınar | From Memoirs to Cinema: The Question of Testimony and the Representation of Disaster | |
| 15.15 – 15.30 | Coffee / Tea | |
| 15.30 – 17.00 | Cracks in Cinema and Theater | Discussant: David Kazanjian |
| Etienne Charriere | “Later, in Yerevan” Robert Guédiguian and the Representation of the (Post-)Genocide in French Cinema | |
| Melis Behlil | Slipping through the Cracks: Narratives of the Armenian Genocide in Turkish Documentaries | |
| Duygu Dalyanoğlu | Playwriting in Diaspora: Melancholia and Survival | |
| 17.00 – 17.15 | Coffee/Tea | |
| 17.15 – 18.45 | Crafting Our Own Cracks | Discussant: Çağla Aydın |
| Janice Okoomian | A Bowl of Wild Forget-Me-Nots: Creative Ritual Practice, Community, and Memory in an Armenian American Feminist Group | |
| Çiğdem Mater | 10 Years into the Search for My Own “Truth” through Cinema: Reflections on the Armenia Turkey Cinema Platform | |
| Marianna Hovhannisyan | “Empty Fields” Exhibition: From the Hrant Dink Foundation Turkey Armenia Fellowship Scheme through ARIT to SALT | |
Friday, November 6
| 10.00 – 11.00 | Writing, Testimony, Survival | Discussant: Hülya Adak |
| Ararat Şekeryan | Literature and Catastrophe: the Journal Shant and Vatan Yarcanyan’s Poems (1918-1919) | |
| Vicken Cheterian | Writing as Resistance | |
| 11.00 – 11.15 | Coffee/Tea | |
| 11.15 – 13.00 | Intimate Archives | Discussant: Banu Karaca |
| David Kazanjian | “All is silver-grey”: Mourning a Fictive Biography | |
| Stefan Kristensen &
Anna Barseghian (with Méliné Ter Minassian) |
No Voice is Lost (Video) | |
| The Dead as a Witness: (Video) A Visual/Philosophical Essay | ||
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.30 – 17.00 | Art, Gender, Survival | Joint event with the “Gender & Aesthetics” Conference (organized by the Gender Forum) |
| Discussant: Asena Günal | ||
| Helin Anahit | The Power of Art as a Catalyst for Memory | |
| Eileen Claveloux | Connecting the Missing Pieces | |
| Anita Toutikian | Longing and Belonging (Video): A Video about the Life and Works of Hripsimeh Sarkissian (1908-2000) | |
| 17.00 – 17.30 | Coffee /Tea | |
| 17.30 – 19.00 | Keynote Speaker | Joint event with the “Gender & Aesthetics” Conference (organized by the Gender Forum) |
| Banu Karaca | * War, Gender and Visual Literacy |
Organizing Committee: Asena Günal, Ayşe Gül Altınay, Banu Karaca, Çağla Aydın, Hülya Adak, Işık Özel, Melis Behlil, Sibel Irzık
Workshop Assistant: Elif Binici
With Support from the Gender Forum, Sabancı University, Istanbul Policy Center, Chrest Foundation
Workshop Poster by Emre Parlak