BELMONT,
MA -- Dr. Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart Career Development Assistant
Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give a
lecture entitled “Wishful Thinking or Insidious Camouflage? Armenians Responding
to the New Turkey (1923-1933),” highlighting NAASR’s 2012 Christmas Open House
on Thursday, December 6, 2012. The Open House will begin at 6:00 p.m. and
conclude at 11:00 p.m., with Ekmekcioglu’s talk set for 8:00 p.m. The evening’s
events will take place at the NAASR Center, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA.
***
Special
Book Sale and 2013 Project SAVE Calendar Available
Both
before and after the lecture, NAASR’s bookstore will be
open
and feature a one night only 20%-off sale, with additional
discounts
of 40% or more on selected titles. Numerous recently
published
titles will be available.
Ruth
Thomasian, Founder and Executive Director of Project
SAVE
Armenian Photograph Archives, will be on hand with the 2013 calendar “Armenians
a Century Ago: In the Homeland and Diaspora.” The calendar, as always featuring
remarkable photographs from Project SAVE’s enormous archival collection,
provides a glimpse of the diversity of Armenian life during the pre-genocide
years.
A
Look at Armenians in the Early Years of the Turkish Republic
Dr.
Ekmekcioglu will be speaking at NAASR for the first time. Her lecture will
examine the previously under-studied Armenian community in Turkey in the first
decade of the Turkish Republic. How did Armenians respond to the establishment
of the new Turkey in 1923? Was this Republic really “new” for them? What can we
learn about the early Turkish Republic when we look at it from the perspective
of its Armenian citizens?
Focusing
on 1920s and 30s Armenian spokespeople, intellectuals, and lay and religious leadership,
Ekmekcioglu will demonstrate that Armenian responses to the state’s policies (homogenization,
secularization, Westernization) included cooperation, accommodation, and camouflaging,
as well as certain forms of more overt resistance that took the shape of calls
to preserve Armenianness inside those spaces in which the state did not care or
dare to interfere. She argues that neither the Turkish Republic’s policies nor
the Armenian responses were completely new. The Ottoman past mattered much more
than either group would admit.
Dr.
Ekmekcioglu joined M.I.T. in 2011 after a post-doc year at the University of
Michigan’s Armenian Studies Program. The holder of a doctorate from New York
University, she teaches courses related to the modern Middle East, with a focus
on its ethnic diversity and majorityminority relations. She is also affiliated
with the Women and Gender Studies Program and teaches courses on gender in the
Middle East and North Africa. As the holder of the McMillan-Stewart Chair she
organizes lectures that pertain to women in the developing world.
She
is currently working on a monograph titled Surviving the New Turkey: Armenians
in Post-Ottoman Istanbul, which analyzes the ways in which survivors of the
Armenian genocide who continued living inside Turkish borders crafted
themselves a new presence to be able to co-habit peacefully with the
perpetrator society.
More
information about Ekmekcioglu’s lecture, the NAASR Christmas Open House, or
NAASR and its programs for the furtherance of Armenian studies, research, and
publication may be had by calling 617-489-1610, faxing 617-484-1759, e-mailing
hq@naasr.org, or writing to NAASR, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA 02478
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She is raising the voice of Armenian minority inTurkey which is not permitted to do so openly here in Turkey.
The ones who dared to raise any voices against how we Christian Armenian minority and other non Muslim Minorities are treated and have been trated in so-called Modern secular Turkey's history were already thought a terrible lesson by paying it off with their lifes as Hrant Dink did.
Mil thanx for telling to the world about how we kept living in Turkey, in a way as hostages.
It is unfortunate that Turkey (which is also our country as it's citizens as well) does not choose to deal with the total reality and won't take the right steps forward to heal our wounds of the past,and we are not even mentioning the Ottoman Era,we only want to talk about the modern history since 1923 when Turkish Republic of today was established and it is still the same state without any changes since it won't face and deal with it's wrondoings against it's non Muslim minorities such as Greeks,Armenians and Jews.Incase of any complains to Ankara by the Minorities here in Turkey is always going to be responded with either ignorance or anger.We'll be accused to be not faitful citizens of this country as if were ever treated farely in our homeland.
Some will probably also want to mention of other Muslim minorities in Turkey but that part is their problem since Once they were also a big part of mistreatment toward us in Turkey.Nowdays they also are getting their shares but I guess they first to admit what they have done in the past,where they mistook all the promisses by the so-called Modern Turkey and Ottoman Empire.
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