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Ottoman Armenians during the Demise of the Empire:
Issues of Democracy and Scientific Responsibility
23 - 24 - 25 September 2005
Boğaziçi University
Garanti Cultural Center
Ayhan Şahenk Conference Room
Organizing Committee
Murat Belge (Professor and Chair, Bilgi University Department of
Comparative Literature),
Halil Berktay (Associate Professor and Coordinator, Sabancı University
History Program),
Selim Deringil (Professor and Chair, Boğaziçi University History
Department),
Edhem Eldem (Professor, Boğaziçi University History Department),
Çağlar Keyder (Professor, Boğaziçi University Sociology Department),
Cemil Koçak (Associate Professor, Sabancı University History Program),
Nükhet Sirman (Professor, Boğaziçi University Sociology Department)
Akşin Somel (Assistant Professor, Sabancı University History Program)
Advisory Committee
Fikret Adanır (Professor, Bochum Ruhr University, Germany)
Engin Akarlı (Professor, Brown University, USA),
Taner Akçam (Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, USA),
Ayhan Aktar (Professor, Marmara University),
Şeyla Benhabib (Professor, Yale University, USA),
Üstün Ergüder (Professor and Director, Sabancı University, İstanbul
Policy Center),
Fatma Müge Göçek (Associate Professor, University of Michigan, USA)
Nilüfer Göle (Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
France),
Cemal Kafadar (Professor, Harvard University, USA),
Metin Kunt (Professor, Sabancı University),
Şerif Mardin (Professor, Sabancı University),
Oktay Özel (Assistant Professor, Bilkent University),
İlhan Tekeli (Professor, Middle East Technical University),
Mete Tunçay (Professor, Bilgi University),
Stefan Yerasimos (Professor, Paris VIII University, France)
23 September Friday
Registration 08:30 a.m.
Opening Statements 09:15
Selim Deringil (Boğaziçi University History Department Chair)
Session 1 09:30-10:40
A Collective View of the Issues
Şerif Mardin
Session Chair
Halil Berktay
What Does the Official Narrative Comprise?
Selim Deringil
Archives and the Armenian Question: 'Grabbing the Document by the Throat'
Murat Belge
The Armenian Problem from the Standpoint of Democracy
Coffee Break 10:40-11:10
Session 2 11:10-13:00
Differences in Knowledge and Perception between Turkey and the World
Üstün Ergüder
Session Chair
Osman Köker
Armenian Presence in the Ottoman State before the Deportation
Fikret Adanır
Massacre, Genocide and the Historical Profession
Fatma Müge Göçek
What the World Knows but Turkey Does Not:
The Chicago-Salzburg Turkish-Armenian Workshop Process as an
Accumulation of Knowledge
Nazan Maksudyan
The 1915-1916 Events according to the Historians of the 20th century and
the world
Lunch 13:00-14:00
Session 3. 14:00-15:40
The 'Old Order' before the Balkan Wars
Hakan Erdem
Session Chair
Akşin Somel
Armenian Schools and the Regime of Abdülhamid (1876-1908)
Oktay Özel
Locals, Refugees and non-Muslims: some observations on the boundaries
of social harmony in the Black Sea Region during the late Ottoman period
Edhem Eldem
The Istanbul Armenian Incidents of 1895-96
Meltem Toksöz
Adana Armenians and the 1909 "Disturbance"
Coffee Break 15:40-16:10
Session 4. 16:10-18:00
The Point of Rupture: 1912-1915
Mete Tunçay
Session Chair
Stefan Yerasimos
Approaching
1915: Armenian Autonomy and the Zeytun and Van Incidents
Nesim Şeker
The Armenian Question and 'Demographic Engineering'
Rober Koptaş
The Unionist-Dashnak Negotiations and the 1914 Armenian Reform from
the pens of Krikor Zohrab, Vahan Papazyan and Karekin Pastırmacıyan
Elif Şafak
Zabel Yesayan and the list of 'marked Armenian intellectuals'
24 September 2005 Saturday
Registration 09:00
Session 5. 09:30-11:00
The Deportation and its Aftermath
Taha Parla
Session Chair
Fuat Dündar
The
Settlement Policy of the Union and Progress (1913-1918)
Taner Akçam
The Intent and Organization of Genocide, with both the survivors and the
destroyed, among the leaders of the Union and Progress in light of the
Ottoman documents
Cemil Koçak
How Do You Know of the Special Secret Organization (Teşkilt-ı Mahsusa)?
Coffee Break 11:00-11:30
Session 6. 11:30-13:20
Tales of Tragedy and Escape
Ferhunde Özbay
Session Chair
Sarkis Seropyan
Landscapes of conscience from within a Painful History
Fethiye Çetin
>From Heranuş to Seher, the tale of a 'liberation'
İrfan Palalı
Fatma Ane, the Child of Deportation
Aykut Kansu
Thinking through the Tales of Those Who Survived the Deportation
Lunch 13:20-14:20
Session 7. 14:20-16:00
Witnesses and Memories
Ayşe Öncü
Session Chair
Hülya Adak
The Armenian Question in Memoirs
Ahmet Kuyaş
What Do the Unionists Say?
Gündüz Vassaf
Armenians in the Educational Calendar (Saatli Maarif Takvimi)
Cevdet Aykan
The Meaning of Memories and The Responsibility of Politics and the Times
Coffee Break 16:00-16:30
Session 8. 16:30-18:00
>From the Threshold of Confrontation to the Formation of Taboos
Selçuk Esenbel
Session Chair
Ayhan Aktar
The Armenian Question in the Ottoman Assembly, November-December 1918
Erol Köroğlu
Examples of Remembrance and Forgetting in Turkish Literature:
the Different Breaking Points of Taciturnity
Baskın Oran
The
Roots of a Taboo: the Historical-Psychological Suffication of
Turkish Public Opinion on the Armenian Problem
25 September Sunday
Registratio 09:00
Session 9. 09:30-11:30
The States of Armenianhood
Nükhet Sirman
Session Chair
Hrant Dink
The New Sentences of Armenian Identity in Turkey and the World
Ferhat Kentel
Turkish and Republican Armenian Societies: Boundaries and Prejudice
Karin Karakaşlı,
To Be an Armenian in Turkey: community, individual, citizen
Ferhat Kentel,
Günay Göksu Özdoğan,
Füsun Üstel
Melissa Bilal
An Identity Trapped In Between the Past and Present:
the Experience of Being an Armenian in Turkey
Ayşe Gül Altınay
Two Books and an Exhibit: The Rediscovery of Turkish Armenians
Coffee Break 11:30-12:00
Session 10. 12:00-13:40
Turkish Democracy and the Armenian Question
Murat Belge
Session Chair
Ali Bayramoğlu
Views and Approaches to the Armenian Question in Turkish Society
Etyen Mahcupyan
The Relationship between Historical Perception and Mentality as
Founding Principle of National Identity in Turkey
Ahmet İnsel
The Armenian Question and the Concept of the Enemy Within in Turkish
Politics
Murat Paker
Turkish Armenian Issue in the Context of a Psychoanalytic Evaluation of
Turkey's Dominant Political Culture
Şahin Alpay
What Can Be Done to Reinstitute Turkish-Armenian Friendship?"
Lunch 13:40-14:40
Session 11. 14:30-16:00
Panel: Armenian Question and the Freedom of the Press
İsmet Berkan
Session Chair
Yavuz Baydar
(Sabah) newspaper
Kürşat Bumin
(Yeni Şafak)
Oral Çalışlar
(Cumhuriyet)
Ahmet Hakan
(Hürriyet)
Fehmi Koru
(Yeni Şafak)
Coffee Break 16:00-16:30
Session 12. 16:30-18:30
Panel: Today and the Future
Halil Berktay
Session Chair
A diplomat :
Temel İskit
A lawyer:
Turgut Tarhanlı
A publisher:
Ragıp Zarakolu
A politician:
Cem Özdemir
A historian:
Mete Tunçay
Participants other than those on the Organizing and Advisory Committees
Hülya Adak
Sabancı University:
Assistant Professor (Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies)
Şahin Alpay
Bahçeşehir University:
Assistant Professor (Political Science); Zaman newspaper
Ayşe Gül Altınay
Sabancı University :
Assistant Professor (Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies)
Cevdet Aykan
Mediical doctor; former deputy of Tokat and Minister of Health
Ali Bayramoğlu
Yeni Şafak newspaper
Yavuz Baydar
Sabah newspaper
İsmet Berkan
Radikal newspaper
Melissa Bilal
Chicago University Ph.D. student (ethnomusicology)
Kürşat Bumin
Yeni Şafak newspaper
Ahmet Hakan Coşkun
Hürriyet newspaper
Oral Çalışlar
Cumhuriyet newspaper
Fethiye Çetin
lawyer, author of the book entitled Anneannem (My Grandmother)
Hrant Dink
Agos newspaper
Fuat Dündar
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) : Ph.D. student
Hakan Erdem
Sabancı University: Assistant Professor (History)
Selçuk Esenbel
Boğaziçi University: Professor (History)
Ahmet İnsel
Galatasaray University: Professor (Economics)
Temel İskit
retired ambassador
Aykut Kansu
Bilgi University: Associate Professor (History)
Karin Karakaşlı
Agos newspaper
Ferhat Kentel
Bilgi University: Assistant Professor (Sociology)
BRober Koptaş
Boğaziçi University: Ph.D. student (Atatürk Institute)
Fehmi Koru
Yeni Şafak newspaper
Osman Köker
editor in chief, Birzamanlar Publications
Erol Köroğlu
Sabancı University:
Assistant Professor (History of Literature, Cultural Studies)
Ahmet Kuyaş
Galatasaray University: Assistant Professor (History, Political Science)
Etyen Mahcupyan
Zaman newspaper
Nazan Maksudyan
Sabancı University: Ph.D. student (History)
Baskın Oran
Ankara University: Professor (Political Science)
Ayşe Öncü
Sabancı University: Professor (Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies)
Ferhunde Özbay
Boğaziçi University: Professor (Sociology)
Cem Özdemir
Deputy of the Green Party, Germany
Günay Göksu Özdoğan
Marmara University: Professor (Political Science and International Relations)
Murat Paker
Bilgi University: Assistant Professor (Psychology)
İrfan Palalı
Ege University: Associate Professor (Neurophysiology)
Taha Parla
Boğaziçi University:
Professor (Political Science and International Relations)
Sarkis Seropyan
Agos newspaper
Elif Şafak
writer, literary person; University of Arizona (USA) : Assistant Professor
(Near Eastern Studies)
Nesim Şeker
Middle East Technical University: Assistant Professor (History)
Turgut Tarhanlı
Bilgi University: Professor (Comparative Law)
Meltem Toksöz
Boğaziçi University: Assistant Professor (History)
Füsun Üstel
Marmara University: Professor (Public Administration)
Gündüz Vassaf
Associate Professor (Psychology); Radikal columnist
Ragıp Zarakolu
editor in chief, Belge Publications
Issues of Democracy and Scientific Responsibility
23 - 24 - 25 September 2005
Boğaziçi University
Garanti Cultural Center
Ayhan Şahenk Conference Room
Organizing Committee
Murat Belge (Professor and Chair, Bilgi University Department of
Comparative Literature),
Halil Berktay (Associate Professor and Coordinator, Sabancı University
History Program),
Selim Deringil (Professor and Chair, Boğaziçi University History
Department),
Edhem Eldem (Professor, Boğaziçi University History Department),
Çağlar Keyder (Professor, Boğaziçi University Sociology Department),
Cemil Koçak (Associate Professor, Sabancı University History Program),
Nükhet Sirman (Professor, Boğaziçi University Sociology Department)
Akşin Somel (Assistant Professor, Sabancı University History Program)
Advisory Committee
Fikret Adanır (Professor, Bochum Ruhr University, Germany)
Engin Akarlı (Professor, Brown University, USA),
Taner Akçam (Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, USA),
Ayhan Aktar (Professor, Marmara University),
Şeyla Benhabib (Professor, Yale University, USA),
Üstün Ergüder (Professor and Director, Sabancı University, İstanbul
Policy Center),
Fatma Müge Göçek (Associate Professor, University of Michigan, USA)
Nilüfer Göle (Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
France),
Cemal Kafadar (Professor, Harvard University, USA),
Metin Kunt (Professor, Sabancı University),
Şerif Mardin (Professor, Sabancı University),
Oktay Özel (Assistant Professor, Bilkent University),
İlhan Tekeli (Professor, Middle East Technical University),
Mete Tunçay (Professor, Bilgi University),
Stefan Yerasimos (Professor, Paris VIII University, France)
23 September Friday
Registration 08:30 a.m.
Opening Statements 09:15
Selim Deringil (Boğaziçi University History Department Chair)
Session 1 09:30-10:40
A Collective View of the Issues
Şerif Mardin
Session Chair
Halil Berktay
What Does the Official Narrative Comprise?
Selim Deringil
Archives and the Armenian Question: 'Grabbing the Document by the Throat'
Murat Belge
The Armenian Problem from the Standpoint of Democracy
Coffee Break 10:40-11:10
Session 2 11:10-13:00
Differences in Knowledge and Perception between Turkey and the World
Üstün Ergüder
Session Chair
Osman Köker
Armenian Presence in the Ottoman State before the Deportation
Fikret Adanır
Massacre, Genocide and the Historical Profession
Fatma Müge Göçek
What the World Knows but Turkey Does Not:
The Chicago-Salzburg Turkish-Armenian Workshop Process as an
Accumulation of Knowledge
Nazan Maksudyan
The 1915-1916 Events according to the Historians of the 20th century and
the world
Lunch 13:00-14:00
Session 3. 14:00-15:40
The 'Old Order' before the Balkan Wars
Hakan Erdem
Session Chair
Akşin Somel
Armenian Schools and the Regime of Abdülhamid (1876-1908)
Oktay Özel
Locals, Refugees and non-Muslims: some observations on the boundaries
of social harmony in the Black Sea Region during the late Ottoman period
Edhem Eldem
The Istanbul Armenian Incidents of 1895-96
Meltem Toksöz
Adana Armenians and the 1909 "Disturbance"
Coffee Break 15:40-16:10
Session 4. 16:10-18:00
The Point of Rupture: 1912-1915
Mete Tunçay
Session Chair
Stefan Yerasimos
Approaching
1915: Armenian Autonomy and the Zeytun and Van Incidents
Nesim Şeker
The Armenian Question and 'Demographic Engineering'
Rober Koptaş
The Unionist-Dashnak Negotiations and the 1914 Armenian Reform from
the pens of Krikor Zohrab, Vahan Papazyan and Karekin Pastırmacıyan
Elif Şafak
Zabel Yesayan and the list of 'marked Armenian intellectuals'
24 September 2005 Saturday
Registration 09:00
Session 5. 09:30-11:00
The Deportation and its Aftermath
Taha Parla
Session Chair
Fuat Dündar
The
Settlement Policy of the Union and Progress (1913-1918)
Taner Akçam
The Intent and Organization of Genocide, with both the survivors and the
destroyed, among the leaders of the Union and Progress in light of the
Ottoman documents
Cemil Koçak
How Do You Know of the Special Secret Organization (Teşkilt-ı Mahsusa)?
Coffee Break 11:00-11:30
Session 6. 11:30-13:20
Tales of Tragedy and Escape
Ferhunde Özbay
Session Chair
Sarkis Seropyan
Landscapes of conscience from within a Painful History
Fethiye Çetin
>From Heranuş to Seher, the tale of a 'liberation'
İrfan Palalı
Fatma Ane, the Child of Deportation
Aykut Kansu
Thinking through the Tales of Those Who Survived the Deportation
Lunch 13:20-14:20
Session 7. 14:20-16:00
Witnesses and Memories
Ayşe Öncü
Session Chair
Hülya Adak
The Armenian Question in Memoirs
Ahmet Kuyaş
What Do the Unionists Say?
Gündüz Vassaf
Armenians in the Educational Calendar (Saatli Maarif Takvimi)
Cevdet Aykan
The Meaning of Memories and The Responsibility of Politics and the Times
Coffee Break 16:00-16:30
Session 8. 16:30-18:00
>From the Threshold of Confrontation to the Formation of Taboos
Selçuk Esenbel
Session Chair
Ayhan Aktar
The Armenian Question in the Ottoman Assembly, November-December 1918
Erol Köroğlu
Examples of Remembrance and Forgetting in Turkish Literature:
the Different Breaking Points of Taciturnity
Baskın Oran
The
Roots of a Taboo: the Historical-Psychological Suffication of
Turkish Public Opinion on the Armenian Problem
25 September Sunday
Registratio 09:00
Session 9. 09:30-11:30
The States of Armenianhood
Nükhet Sirman
Session Chair
Hrant Dink
The New Sentences of Armenian Identity in Turkey and the World
Ferhat Kentel
Turkish and Republican Armenian Societies: Boundaries and Prejudice
Karin Karakaşlı,
To Be an Armenian in Turkey: community, individual, citizen
Ferhat Kentel,
Günay Göksu Özdoğan,
Füsun Üstel
Melissa Bilal
An Identity Trapped In Between the Past and Present:
the Experience of Being an Armenian in Turkey
Ayşe Gül Altınay
Two Books and an Exhibit: The Rediscovery of Turkish Armenians
Coffee Break 11:30-12:00
Session 10. 12:00-13:40
Turkish Democracy and the Armenian Question
Murat Belge
Session Chair
Ali Bayramoğlu
Views and Approaches to the Armenian Question in Turkish Society
Etyen Mahcupyan
The Relationship between Historical Perception and Mentality as
Founding Principle of National Identity in Turkey
Ahmet İnsel
The Armenian Question and the Concept of the Enemy Within in Turkish
Politics
Murat Paker
Turkish Armenian Issue in the Context of a Psychoanalytic Evaluation of
Turkey's Dominant Political Culture
Şahin Alpay
What Can Be Done to Reinstitute Turkish-Armenian Friendship?"
Lunch 13:40-14:40
Session 11. 14:30-16:00
Panel: Armenian Question and the Freedom of the Press
İsmet Berkan
Session Chair
Yavuz Baydar
(Sabah) newspaper
Kürşat Bumin
(Yeni Şafak)
Oral Çalışlar
(Cumhuriyet)
Ahmet Hakan
(Hürriyet)
Fehmi Koru
(Yeni Şafak)
Coffee Break 16:00-16:30
Session 12. 16:30-18:30
Panel: Today and the Future
Halil Berktay
Session Chair
A diplomat :
Temel İskit
A lawyer:
Turgut Tarhanlı
A publisher:
Ragıp Zarakolu
A politician:
Cem Özdemir
A historian:
Mete Tunçay
Participants other than those on the Organizing and Advisory Committees
Hülya Adak
Sabancı University:
Assistant Professor (Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies)
Şahin Alpay
Bahçeşehir University:
Assistant Professor (Political Science); Zaman newspaper
Ayşe Gül Altınay
Sabancı University :
Assistant Professor (Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies)
Cevdet Aykan
Mediical doctor; former deputy of Tokat and Minister of Health
Ali Bayramoğlu
Yeni Şafak newspaper
Yavuz Baydar
Sabah newspaper
İsmet Berkan
Radikal newspaper
Melissa Bilal
Chicago University Ph.D. student (ethnomusicology)
Kürşat Bumin
Yeni Şafak newspaper
Ahmet Hakan Coşkun
Hürriyet newspaper
Oral Çalışlar
Cumhuriyet newspaper
Fethiye Çetin
lawyer, author of the book entitled Anneannem (My Grandmother)
Hrant Dink
Agos newspaper
Fuat Dündar
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) : Ph.D. student
Hakan Erdem
Sabancı University: Assistant Professor (History)
Selçuk Esenbel
Boğaziçi University: Professor (History)
Ahmet İnsel
Galatasaray University: Professor (Economics)
Temel İskit
retired ambassador
Aykut Kansu
Bilgi University: Associate Professor (History)
Karin Karakaşlı
Agos newspaper
Ferhat Kentel
Bilgi University: Assistant Professor (Sociology)
BRober Koptaş
Boğaziçi University: Ph.D. student (Atatürk Institute)
Fehmi Koru
Yeni Şafak newspaper
Osman Köker
editor in chief, Birzamanlar Publications
Erol Köroğlu
Sabancı University:
Assistant Professor (History of Literature, Cultural Studies)
Ahmet Kuyaş
Galatasaray University: Assistant Professor (History, Political Science)
Etyen Mahcupyan
Zaman newspaper
Nazan Maksudyan
Sabancı University: Ph.D. student (History)
Baskın Oran
Ankara University: Professor (Political Science)
Ayşe Öncü
Sabancı University: Professor (Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies)
Ferhunde Özbay
Boğaziçi University: Professor (Sociology)
Cem Özdemir
Deputy of the Green Party, Germany
Günay Göksu Özdoğan
Marmara University: Professor (Political Science and International Relations)
Murat Paker
Bilgi University: Assistant Professor (Psychology)
İrfan Palalı
Ege University: Associate Professor (Neurophysiology)
Taha Parla
Boğaziçi University:
Professor (Political Science and International Relations)
Sarkis Seropyan
Agos newspaper
Elif Şafak
writer, literary person; University of Arizona (USA) : Assistant Professor
(Near Eastern Studies)
Nesim Şeker
Middle East Technical University: Assistant Professor (History)
Turgut Tarhanlı
Bilgi University: Professor (Comparative Law)
Meltem Toksöz
Boğaziçi University: Assistant Professor (History)
Füsun Üstel
Marmara University: Professor (Public Administration)
Gündüz Vassaf
Associate Professor (Psychology); Radikal columnist
Ragıp Zarakolu
editor in chief, Belge Publications