Critical Approaches to Genocide History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915

Preface

I Hülya Adak. "Trauma and Genocide Studies in Contested Terrains"
II Hülya Adak and Fatma Müge Göçek. Introduction to “Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics and Aesthetics of 1915”
List of Contributors

Part I
New Methodologies and Directions in Armenian and Genocide Studies

1. Playing on a New Field: The History of WATS and Where We are Now
Ronald Grigor Suny

2. Eastern Turkey: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Desired
Uğur Ümit Üngör

3. Time and Space Problematic in Studying Genocide: The Armenian Case
Ohannes Kılıçdağı

4. A Survivor of the Armenian Genocide as a Perpetrator of the Holocaust: The Case of Eghia Hovhannesian
Andrea Petö

Part II
Repertoires of Violence and Demographic Engineering

5. Transmitting Ottomanism: Revolution, Diaspora, and the Legacies of Imperial Reform
Richard Antaramian

6. The Multiple Narratives of the Assyrian Genocide
David Gaunt

7. Colonial Pragmatism and Population Transfer – German Perception of Ethnic Violence during the First World War and the Armenian Genocide
Christin Pschichholz

8. Challenges of Humanitarianism: Johannes Lepsius (1858–1926)
Rolf Hosfeld

Part III
Aesthetics, Linguistic Pluralism and Memory

9. Another Pluralism: Reading Dostoevsky across the Sea of Marmara
Nanor Kebranian

10. Between Communication and Miscommunication: An Essay on the Role and Representation of Language in Survivor Testimonies
Murat Cankara

11. Storation: A Small Guide to Undoing Restoration
David Kazanjian

Part IV
Gender and Sexuality

12. 'The Space Between Us: Feminist Conversations on Genocide, Survival and Gender'
Ayşe Gül Altınay, Arlene Avakian and Fethiye Çetin

13. Finding Place in Exile: Queer Armenian Voices Speak
Deanna Cachoian-Schanz

Part V
Higher Education and Genocide Commemorations in Contemporary Turkey

14. Higher Education in Turkey
Tosun Terzioğlu Edited by Ayşecan Terzioğlu

15. Skeletons in the Turkish Closet: Remembering the Armenian Genocide
Ayşe Kadıoğlu

16. Commemorating the Armenian Genocide: Spatial Politics of Memory in Post-Imperial Istanbul
Egemen Özbek

Part VI
Afterword: Fatma Müge Göçek

Critical Approaches to Genocide Afterword
Fatma Müge Göçek

Index

Biography

Hülya Adak is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Sabancı University and Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at the Free University of Berlin (Margherita von Brentano Zentrum). Adak was the Director of Sabancı University’s Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender) between 2019 and 2022. She is the founder of the ProGender+ Program, a Gender, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion program for professionals in the corporate sector. Her most relevant publications include Mapping Gender: What’ New and What’ Ahead in Ottoman and Turkish Studies (with Richard Wittmann, 2022), Performing Turkishness: Politics of Theatre in Turkey and Its Diasporas (with R. E. Altıay, 2018), Halide Edibve Siyasal Şddet (Bilgi Üiversitesi Yayıları 2016), Hundert Jahre Türkei: Zeitzeugen erzaehlen (with Erika Glassen, Unionsverlag 2014, 2010), and Gender, Ethnicity and the Nation-State (with Ayş Gü Altıay, 2010). Her articles in the fields of gender studies, memory and trauma studies, history of human rights, literature, theater, and film studies have been published in the PMLA, South Atlantic Quarterly, Comparative Drama, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Journal of Genocide Research, New Perspectives on Turkey, and Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte. Adak is on the Academic Advisory Board of the International Hrant Dink Foundation and Orient Institut Istanbul der Max Weber Stiftung. In 2021, her current book project (with Melanie Tanielian and Erdağ Göknar) titled Afterlives of Archives received the “Book Manuscript Award” of Duke University’s Franklin Humanities Institute.

Fatma Müge Göçek is Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on the comparative analysis of history, politics, and gender in the first and third worlds. She critically analyzes the impact of processes such as development, nationalism, religious movements, and collective violence on minorities. Göçek is the author of Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009 (2014). She is currently working on a theory book, constructing social theory from the vantage point of minorities.

Ronald Grigor Suny is William H. Sewell, Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. He was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan, where he founded and directed the Armenian Studies Program. He is the author of The Baku Commune: Class and Nationality in the Russian Revolution; The Making of the Georgian Nation; Looking Toward Ararat: Armenia in Modern History; The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union; The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the Soviet Union and the Successor States; “They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide; Red Flag Unfurled: History, Historians, and the Russian Revolution; Red Flag Wounded: Stalinism and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment; Stalin: Passage to Revolution: and co-author with Valerie Kivelson of Russia’s Empires. He is currently working on a book on the history of the nation-form and the recent upsurge of exclusivist nationalisms and authoritarian populisms: Forging the Nation: The Making and Faking of Nationalisms.