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    CONFERENCE SUR LES ARMENIENS ISLAMISES (OCT. 2013, ISTANBUL)

    Une conference sur "Les Armeniens islamises " est organisee par
    la Fondation Internationale Hrant Dink du 11 au 13 octobre 2013,
    a Istanbul, en Turquie.

    TEXTE EN ANGLAIS

    The turn of the 20th century was a period of significant social and
    political transformation in the Ottoman geography, which involved
    individual and mass experiences of religious conversion. In
    this period, a large number of Armenians (were) Islamized, most
    significantly during the years 1915-1916. An unknown number of young
    Armenians survived the massacres and death marches of 1915 as adopted
    daughters and sons of Muslim families. Fewer others became wives and
    husbands. In exceptional cases, whole families or villages survived by
    "passing" as Muslims. While some of these survivors (particularly young
    men) re-united with their families or relatives in later years, or were
    taken into orphanages by missionaries and relief workers, many others
    lived the rest of their lives as "Muslims," taking on Turkish, Kurdish,
    or Arabic names. Until recently, the stories of these survivors were
    silenced or ignored in all historiographies. There is now a growing
    body of literature on Islamized Armenians in the form of fiction,
    memoir, testimonials and historical research. This conference seeks
    to address, the experiences of Islamized Armenians and the social
    consequences of their experiences ; the long silence on Islamized
    Armenians ; as well as the recent forms of unsilencing.

    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 ?

    How do the stories of Islamized Armenians contribute to or complicate
    the existing scholarship on genocides in general and the Armenian
    genocide in particular ? What do they suggest regarding the category of
    "the survivor" in genocide scholarship ? What can we learn from a study
    of similar forms of survival in other cases of genocide and political
    violence (such as the Holocaust, the case of Aboriginal children in
    Australia, or the "lost children" of Chile) ? What can we learn from
    exploring the connections and differences between experiences of
    (forced) Islamization in previous centuries and those in the first
    part of the 20th century ?

    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.

    Application Process :

    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.

    Please submit an abstract (max. 500 words) outlining the relevance
    and novelty of your contribution, together with a 200 words resume.

    There are limited funds for those participants who do not have other
    sources of funding to attend the conference. When submitting your
    abstract, please indicate your need for any financial assistance.

    There are no registration fees. Lunch, tea and coffee will be provided
    for all presenters.

    The application deadline is March 20, 2013.

    To submit your paper and for more information :
    [email protected]

    Organizing Committee :

    Ayşe Gul Altınay

    Sibel Asna

    Fethiye Cetin

    Delal Dink

    Ayşe Kadıoğlu

    Karin Karakaşlı

    Emine Kolivar

    Hosrof Koletavitoğlu

    Scientific Committee :

    Ahmet İnsel (Galatasaray University)

    Andrea Peto (Central European University)

    Ayfer Bartu (Boğazici University)

    Ayşe Gul Altınay (Sabancı University)

    Boghos Levon Zekiyan (Venice Ca' Foscari University)

    Hulya Adak (Sabancı University)

    Jackie Mansourian

    Murat Yuksel (Koc University)

    Raymond Kevorkian (University Paris 8)

    Ronald Grigor Suny (University of Michigan)

    Selim Deringil (Boğazici University)

    Vahe Tachjian (Houshamadyan)

    Zeynep Turkyılmaz (Dartmouth College)

    mardi 12 fevrier 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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