• 10.12.2024 | From Natives to Foreigners: Enduring Erasures of Armenians in Turkey

    10.12.2024 | From Natives to Foreigners: Enduring Erasures of Armenians in Turkey

    This lecture introduces the concept of “denativization” to explore how Armenians in Turkey underwent this transformation. Denativization goes beyond human rights violations, addressing the systemic erasure of Armenian presence, identity, and history that continues long after the genocide, even as the vast Anatolian landscape has been emptied of Armenians. Through an examination of historical events,…

  • 15.11.24 | Biographies of Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire

    Biographies of Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire In August 1915, the paths of Ali Cenani, an Ottoman deputy, Ahmet Faik, the former deputy governor of Baghdad, and Mehmet Yasin, a military dispatch officer, crossed in a particular town, Aintab, modern-day Gaziantep — situated on the boundaries of Cilicia (today known as the southern part…

  • 22.10.24 | What it Means to Imagine Turkey

    Join us for a stimulating lecture by Dr. Sertaç Sehlikoğlu (University College London). Turkey has been forging a political imaginary and engineering a Turkish-ness, narrating a particular story of genetic and historical heritage. More recently, it has been investing in another, broader and more invasive imaginaries by evoking its imperial past that we refer to…