Sabancı University, in collaboration withthe International Hrant Dink Foundation and Anadolu Kültür is holding the second Workshop in Commemoration of murdered journalist Hrant Dink. The title of the workshop is "Gender, Ethnicity and the Nation-State:
Anatolia and Its Neighboring Regions."
The workshop is taking place at the Tobacco Depot (Tütün Deposu), Hacı Mimi Mahallesi, Lüleci Hendek Caddesi No. 12, Tophand, Istanbul.
Registration is required for the workshop on Thursday, Friday and Sunday, but events on Saturday are open to the public.
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.
The Programme
May 21 | Thursday | |
17.00 | Film screening and discussion | Chair: Ayşe Öncü (Sabancı U) |
Kapıları Açmak | Ülker Uncu & Burcu Yıldız (Kardeş Türküler) | |
40. Kapıyı Açarsan... | Talin Büyükkürkçiyan | |
Opening Reception |
May 22 | Friday | |
9.30 - 10.00 | Opening Remarks | |
10.00 - 12.00 | Memories and Testimonies | Discussant: Hülya Adak (Sabancı U) |
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) |
Nazan Maksudyan | 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) |
Arus Yumul (İstanbul Bilgi U) | Fashioning the Turkish Body Politic | |
Yeliz Kızılarslan | 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) |
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) |
Fethiye Çetin | Anneannem Across Borders | |
Ruben Melkonyan | 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 | Chair: Betül Tanbay (International Hrant Dink Foundation)Discussion with directors Talin Suciyan & | |
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) |
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) |
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 | Art, Politics and Reconciliation | |
16.45 - 17.00 | Coffee/Tea | |
17.00 - 19.00 | Gender, Ethnicity and Feminist Politics | Discussant: Şirin Tekeli |
Nebahat Akkoç | Diyarbakır KAMER | |
19.00 - 20.00 | Reception | |
20.00 | Rakel Dink | Introduction |
Arpine Konyalian Grenier | Poetry Reading |
May 24 | Sunday | |
9.30 - 11.30 | Gender & Ethnicity: The Balkans and Anatolia | Discussant: Ayşe Parla (Sabancı U) |
Halide Velioğlu | 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 | (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: | Discussant: Lale Yalçın-Heckmann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) |
Nona Shahnazarian | "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 | 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: | Discussant: Işık Özel (Sabancı U) |
Vladimir Igorevich Kolesov (Krasnodar State Historical & Archeological Museum) | Marriage Strategy and Nationalism (Circassian Greeks' case) | |
Setenay Nil Doğan | "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) |
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) |
Serkan Delice | 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 |
