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Ekmekcioglu to Speak at Columbia on `Women and Children After Genocide'
by Armenian Weekly
March 6, 2012
NEW YORK - On Wed., March 21, Dr. Lerna Ekmekcioglu will give a lecture
entitled `A Climate for Abduction, A Climate for Redemption: Armenian
Women and Their Children During and Immediately After the Genocide' at
Knox Hall 207, Columbia University, 606 West 122nd Street (between
Broadway and Claremont Avenue). The lecture is sponsored by the
Middle East Institute at Columbia University, the Armenian Center at
Columbia University, and the National Association for Armenian Studies
and Research (NAASR).
Ekmekcioglu
Ekmekciolgu's talk will focus on two processes. The first is the
forcible incorporation of Armenians into Muslim households and
orphanages during World War I. Ekmekcioglu will elaborate the
historical reasons that enabled Ottoman politicians to conceive such a
policy and the Ottoman Muslim society to successfully implement it.
She will then discuss post-war Armenian attempts to rescue the
kidnapped. She argues that this effort remained extremely inclusive
whereby rape victims, former concubines, and wives, as well as their
(technically) Muslim children were treated as full-fledged Armenians.
This administrative policy, however, did not necessarily reflect the
victims' and their relatives' perceptions of who could, after 1915,
belong to the Armenian nation and who would have to be left out
forever.
Lerna Ekmekcioglu is the McMillan-Stewart Career Development Assistant
Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT). She received her undergraduate degree from Istanbul's Bogazici
University and her Ph.D. in history and Middle Eastern and Islamic
studies from New York University. In 2010-11, she held a
post-doctoral fellowship in the Armenian Studies Program of the
University of Michigan. Currently she is revising a book entitled
Surviving the New Turkey: Armenians in Post-Ottoman Istanbul,
1918-1935.
Ekmekcioglu's lecture begins at 6:30 p.m. For more information, e-mail
[email protected] or e-mail [email protected], visit
www.mei.columbia.edu, or call (617) 489-1610.
From: A. Papazian
by Armenian Weekly
March 6, 2012
NEW YORK - On Wed., March 21, Dr. Lerna Ekmekcioglu will give a lecture
entitled `A Climate for Abduction, A Climate for Redemption: Armenian
Women and Their Children During and Immediately After the Genocide' at
Knox Hall 207, Columbia University, 606 West 122nd Street (between
Broadway and Claremont Avenue). The lecture is sponsored by the
Middle East Institute at Columbia University, the Armenian Center at
Columbia University, and the National Association for Armenian Studies
and Research (NAASR).
Ekmekcioglu
Ekmekciolgu's talk will focus on two processes. The first is the
forcible incorporation of Armenians into Muslim households and
orphanages during World War I. Ekmekcioglu will elaborate the
historical reasons that enabled Ottoman politicians to conceive such a
policy and the Ottoman Muslim society to successfully implement it.
She will then discuss post-war Armenian attempts to rescue the
kidnapped. She argues that this effort remained extremely inclusive
whereby rape victims, former concubines, and wives, as well as their
(technically) Muslim children were treated as full-fledged Armenians.
This administrative policy, however, did not necessarily reflect the
victims' and their relatives' perceptions of who could, after 1915,
belong to the Armenian nation and who would have to be left out
forever.
Lerna Ekmekcioglu is the McMillan-Stewart Career Development Assistant
Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT). She received her undergraduate degree from Istanbul's Bogazici
University and her Ph.D. in history and Middle Eastern and Islamic
studies from New York University. In 2010-11, she held a
post-doctoral fellowship in the Armenian Studies Program of the
University of Michigan. Currently she is revising a book entitled
Surviving the New Turkey: Armenians in Post-Ottoman Istanbul,
1918-1935.
Ekmekcioglu's lecture begins at 6:30 p.m. For more information, e-mail
[email protected] or e-mail [email protected], visit
www.mei.columbia.edu, or call (617) 489-1610.
From: A. Papazian