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National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
395 Concord Ave.
Belmont, MA 02478
Tel.: 617-489-1610
E-mail: [email protected]
NAASR cHISTMAS OPEN HOUSE TO FEATURE LECTURE
BY LERNA EKMEKCIOGLU ON ARMENIANS IN THE EARLY TURKISH REPUBLIC
Dr. Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart Career Development
Assistant Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, will give a lecture entitled "Wishful Thinking or Insidious
Camouflage? Armenians Responding to the New Turkey (1923-1933),"
highlighting NAASR's 2012 Christmas Open House on Thursday, December 6,
2012. The Open House will begin at 6:00 p.m. and conclude at 11:00
p.m., with Ekmekcioglu's talk set for 8:00 p.m. The evening's events
will take place at the NAASR Center, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA.
Special Book Sale and 2013 Project SAVE Calendar Available
Both before and after the lecture, NAASR's bookstore will be
open and feature a one night only 20%-off sale, with additional
discounts of 40% or more on selected titles. Numerous recently
published titles will be available.
Ruth Thomasian, Founder and Executive Director of Project
SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives, will be on hand with the 2013
calendar "Armenians a Century Ago: in the Homeland and Diaspora." The
calendar, as always featuring remarkable photographs from Project SAVE's
enormous archival collection, provides a glimpse of the diversity of
Armenian life during the pre-genocide years.
A Look at Armenians in the Early Years of the Turkish Republic
Dr. Ekmekcioglu will be speaking at NAASR for the first
time. Her lecture will examine the previously under-studied Armenian
community in Turkey in the first decade of the Turkish Republic. How did
Armenians respond to the establishment of the new Turkey in 1923? Was
this Republic really "new" for them? What can we learn about the early
Turkish Republic when we look at it from the perspective of its Armenian
citizens?
Focusing on 1920s and 30s Armenian spokespeople,
intellectuals, and lay and religious leadership, Ekmekcioglu will
demonstrate that Armenian responses to the state's policies
(homogenization, secularization, Westernization) included cooperation,
accommodation, and camouflaging, as well as certain forms of more overt
resistance that took the shape of calls to preserve Armenianness inside
those spaces in which the state did not care or dare to interfere. She
argues that neither the Turkish Republic's policies nor the Armenian
responses were completely new. The Ottoman past mattered much more than
either group would admit.
Dr. Ekmekcioglu joined M.I.T. in 2011 after a post-doc year
at the University of Michigan's Armenian Studies Program. The holder of
a doctorate from New York University, she teaches courses related to the
modern Middle East, with a focus on its ethnic diversity and
majority-minority relations. She is also affiliated with the Women and
Gender Studies Program and teaches courses on gender in the Middle East
and North Africa. As the holder of the McMillan-Stewart Chair she
organizes lectures that pertain to women in the developing world.
She is currently working on a monograph titled Surviving the
New Turkey: Armenians in Post-Ottoman Istanbul, which analyzes the ways
in which survivors of the Armenian genocide who continued living inside
Turkish borders crafted themselves a new presence to be able to co-habit
peacefully with the perpetrator society.
More information about Ekmekcioglu's lecture, the NAASR
Christmas Open House, or NAASR and its programs for the furtherance of
Armenian studies, research, and publication may be had by calling
617-489-1610, faxing 617-484-1759, e-mailing [email protected], or writing to
NAASR, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA 02478.
Belmont, MA
November 9, 2012
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
395 Concord Ave.
Belmont, MA 02478
Tel.: 617-489-1610
E-mail: [email protected]
NAASR cHISTMAS OPEN HOUSE TO FEATURE LECTURE
BY LERNA EKMEKCIOGLU ON ARMENIANS IN THE EARLY TURKISH REPUBLIC
Dr. Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart Career Development
Assistant Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, will give a lecture entitled "Wishful Thinking or Insidious
Camouflage? Armenians Responding to the New Turkey (1923-1933),"
highlighting NAASR's 2012 Christmas Open House on Thursday, December 6,
2012. The Open House will begin at 6:00 p.m. and conclude at 11:00
p.m., with Ekmekcioglu's talk set for 8:00 p.m. The evening's events
will take place at the NAASR Center, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA.
Special Book Sale and 2013 Project SAVE Calendar Available
Both before and after the lecture, NAASR's bookstore will be
open and feature a one night only 20%-off sale, with additional
discounts of 40% or more on selected titles. Numerous recently
published titles will be available.
Ruth Thomasian, Founder and Executive Director of Project
SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives, will be on hand with the 2013
calendar "Armenians a Century Ago: in the Homeland and Diaspora." The
calendar, as always featuring remarkable photographs from Project SAVE's
enormous archival collection, provides a glimpse of the diversity of
Armenian life during the pre-genocide years.
A Look at Armenians in the Early Years of the Turkish Republic
Dr. Ekmekcioglu will be speaking at NAASR for the first
time. Her lecture will examine the previously under-studied Armenian
community in Turkey in the first decade of the Turkish Republic. How did
Armenians respond to the establishment of the new Turkey in 1923? Was
this Republic really "new" for them? What can we learn about the early
Turkish Republic when we look at it from the perspective of its Armenian
citizens?
Focusing on 1920s and 30s Armenian spokespeople,
intellectuals, and lay and religious leadership, Ekmekcioglu will
demonstrate that Armenian responses to the state's policies
(homogenization, secularization, Westernization) included cooperation,
accommodation, and camouflaging, as well as certain forms of more overt
resistance that took the shape of calls to preserve Armenianness inside
those spaces in which the state did not care or dare to interfere. She
argues that neither the Turkish Republic's policies nor the Armenian
responses were completely new. The Ottoman past mattered much more than
either group would admit.
Dr. Ekmekcioglu joined M.I.T. in 2011 after a post-doc year
at the University of Michigan's Armenian Studies Program. The holder of
a doctorate from New York University, she teaches courses related to the
modern Middle East, with a focus on its ethnic diversity and
majority-minority relations. She is also affiliated with the Women and
Gender Studies Program and teaches courses on gender in the Middle East
and North Africa. As the holder of the McMillan-Stewart Chair she
organizes lectures that pertain to women in the developing world.
She is currently working on a monograph titled Surviving the
New Turkey: Armenians in Post-Ottoman Istanbul, which analyzes the ways
in which survivors of the Armenian genocide who continued living inside
Turkish borders crafted themselves a new presence to be able to co-habit
peacefully with the perpetrator society.
More information about Ekmekcioglu's lecture, the NAASR
Christmas Open House, or NAASR and its programs for the furtherance of
Armenian studies, research, and publication may be had by calling
617-489-1610, faxing 617-484-1759, e-mailing [email protected], or writing to
NAASR, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA 02478.
Belmont, MA
November 9, 2012