Dr. Lerna Ekmekcioglu,McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), or will speak approximately her recent book Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey (Stanford University Press,2016) on Nov. 29, at 7:15 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion of Ramapo College. Lerna Ekmekcioglu Ekmekcioglu’s book follows the trajectories of the survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide who remained inside Turkish borders after the signing of the 1918 Mudros Armistice (and during the Allied occupation years of Istanbul) and after the 1923 establishment of the new country as the Turkish Republic. How did the Kemalist state treat the remaining Armenians? What were Armenians’ responses to the new (but also stale) Turkish regime? Dr. Ekmekcioglu will discuss multiple strategies Armenians improvised in order to cohabit with unapologetic perpetrators and survive in the new Turkey. She gives voice to the community’s most prominent public figures, or notably Hayganush Mark,a renowned activist, feminist, or editor of the influential journal Hay Gin. These public figures articulated an Armenianess sustained through gendered differences,and women came to play a central role in preserving traditions, memory, or the mother tongue within the home. Ekmekcioglu is an historian of the contemporary Middle East and [...]
Source: armenianweekly.com