Deadline- March 20, 2013
Applicants from around the world are invited for conference on Islamized Armenians which will be organized in Istanbul on 8-10 November 2013. The objective of organizing this conference is to discuss the role of research and scholarship in the difficult processes of facing historical and present forms of violence, discrimination, and injustice.
Issues to be discussed in conference are-
- What have Islamized Armenians been through? How did they deal with the gravity of their experiences? With whom and how were they able to share these experiences? How do their experiences reflect on the lives of their children and grandchildren? How have they impacted the different localities where they have lived? How are their stories remembered and recited in these different localities?
- How do the “grandchildren” of these survivors make sense of the stories of their Islamized Armenian grandparents? How do they articulate their identities and sense of belonging? How are they affected by the various political developments and tensions around this issue? How is this process reflected on different localities?
- How can one account for the decades of silence on Islamized Armenians in all historiographies? Why has it taken so long for us to be aware of the stories of Islamized Armenians, and why is our knowledge of their predicament so limited? In what ways is this form of survival and its silencing gendered? How does it relate to predominant notions of women, men and procreation? Why is there growing interest on this particular category of survivors today?
- Addressing such questions, among others, this conference seeks to contribute to both the historical debates on 1915 and its aftermath, as well as to contemporary questions of ethnic/national identification, gender, responsibility, and justice. The conference also seeks to discuss the role of research and scholarship in the difficult processes of facing historical and present forms of violence, discrimination, and injustice
Eligibility–
- The conference is open to all researchers from all disciplines and backgrounds.
- The working languages of the conference will be English, Turkish and Armenian. The applications should be made in English or Turkish.
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