The Ottoman Empire and Its Eastern Provinces.The Turkish Studies Chair of the Institute of Near and
Middle Eastern Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), with
the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon) and the Gomidas
Institute (London), will be hosting a new lecture series entitled “The Ottoman Empire
and its Eastern Provinces” (Winter 2012). The lectures will be given by leading
scholars from Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden and the United States on a variety of
topics that still resonate with us today. Each month one speaker will make
their presentation to a critical audience in Munich, and each talk will be
reported for the benefit of the broader scholarly community.
13.12.2012
Dr. Janet Klein: The Armenian Genocide and The Kurds:
Reconceptualizing the Link Between Ethnicity and Culpability
Abstract: Until recently, scholarship on the Armenian
Genocide has remained narrowly focused on either the issue of a “smoking gun,”
or whether or not the violence that claimed the lives of over a million
Armenians and displaced many others can be called a genocide. Related to this
larger trend in scholarship is an obsession with attributing culpability (or
victimhood) to specific ethnic groups. Unfortunately, due to the extremely
political nature of the historical events in question, works that attempt to
step outside of these paradigms as they have been handed down for decades have,
until recently, been few and far between. This presentation traces and
historicizes the criminal careers of a Kurdish tribal chief named Hüseyin Pasha
and his “colleagues” in the Hamidiye Light Cavalry, which was a late-Ottoman
Kurdish tribal militia that was established in 1890, and through this I
endeavor to move not only beyond answers given, but also questions asked thus
far in the matter of Kurdish-Armenian violence. My presentation aims to offer a
few interrelated contributions to the historiography on anti-Armenian violence
in the late-Ottoman period, and to demonstrate how the tragic events were part
of the larger trauma involved in the empire’s transition to a nation-state and
to the “thinking” that accompanied that shift, and the dramatic role that
foreign intervention played in pitting certain groups against others.
Janet Klein is Associate Professor of History at the
University of Akron, where she teaches courses on the Ottoman Empire, the
modern Middle East, and mass violence. Her research has focused on
state-society relations as well as nationalism, identity, and gender dynamics
from a historical perspective, and her primary area of focus—late-Ottoman
Kurdistan—has served as a lens through which she explores wider issues that
extend beyond this geography and time period. Dr. Klein is the recipient of
numerous grants and fellowships, including the Fulbright-Hays fellowship for
dissertation research abroad. She is the author of The Margins of Empire:
Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone (Stanford University Press, 2011)
and numerous other articles and book chapters.
The lecture will take place on 13th of Dezember, 18:00 c.t.
in Schellingstr. 3, 007
7.11.2012
Prof. Dr. David Gaunt : The Violence of Neighbors:
Inter-Religious Violence in Late Ottoman Diyarbakır.
Up until the Twentieth Century Eastern Anatolia was host to
a mosaic of different linguistic, religious and ethnic groups. They lived
closely together,their lifestyles sometimes overlapped, clan and family
structures were similar, many persons were multiligual and the groups were
often economically interdependent with a sharp division of labor. This was a
violent area and the groups traditionally could defend themselves against their
neighbors. But in the late 1800's the balance of power tipped away and some of
the Kurdish tribes (with the help of the state) became dominant, while other
Kurdish tribes, Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans and Syrian Orthodox found
themselves in great problems. They found could not defend themselves without
powerful allies and this sucked them into Kurdish inter-tribal warfare. The
Christian farmers constantly lost land, animals and influence (despite foreign
interventions). A process of socio-economic marginalization of native Christian
peoples culminated in the genocide of Worl War I that is often called Seyfo,
the year of the sword.
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yaptı.
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