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Concordia University, QC, Canada
March 8 2013
March 8 - A Woman Scholar's Reflections on Denial
Fatma Müge Göçek, professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is giving a lecture titled A
Woman Scholar's Reflections on Denial: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present
and the Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009.
With the intent to analyze the origins and continuity of the
collective violence committed against the Armenian through Ottoman and
republican history up to the present, the talk analyzes the narrative
of 297 contemporaneous memoir writers and their 315 texts.
The analysis provides a historically based explanation not only for
the emergence of such collective violence, but its continuation across
two hundred twenty years from 1789 to 2009. And it further argues that
the layering of denial across time makes it even more challenging for
contemporary Turkish state and society to acknowledge the violence.
When: Friday, March 8, 2013, from 1 to 3 p.m. (International Women's Day)
Where: Room H-1120, Henry F. Hall Building (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd.
W.), Sir George Williams Campus
Born, raised and educated in Istanbul, Turkey, Fatma Müge Göçek's
research focuses on the comparative analysis of history, politics,
gender and collective violence. Her published works include East
Encounters West: France and the Ottoman Empire in the 18th Century
(Oxford University Press, 1987), Reconstructing Gender in the Middle
East: Tradition, Identity, Power (Columbia University Press, 1994
co-edited with Shiva Balaghi), Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of
Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change (Oxford University
Press, 1996), Political Cartoons in the Middle East (Markus Wiener
Publishers, 1998), Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle
East (SUNY Press, 2002), The Transformation of Turkey: Redefining
State and Society from the Ottoman Empire to the Modern Era (I.B.
Tauris Publishers, 2011), and A Question of Genocide: Armenians and
Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire (Oxford University Press, 2011
co-edited with Ronald Grigor Suny and Norman Naimark). She has
recently finished a book manuscript entitled Deciphering Denial:
Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and the Collective Violence against the
Armenians, 1789-2009.
This event is organized by the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology and co-sponsored by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, the
Montreal Insititute for Human Rights and Genocide Studies, CEREV and
Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability.
http://www.concordia.ca/now/upcoming-events/20130308/march-8---a-woman-scholars-reflections-on-denial.php
March 8 2013
March 8 - A Woman Scholar's Reflections on Denial
Fatma Müge Göçek, professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is giving a lecture titled A
Woman Scholar's Reflections on Denial: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present
and the Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009.
With the intent to analyze the origins and continuity of the
collective violence committed against the Armenian through Ottoman and
republican history up to the present, the talk analyzes the narrative
of 297 contemporaneous memoir writers and their 315 texts.
The analysis provides a historically based explanation not only for
the emergence of such collective violence, but its continuation across
two hundred twenty years from 1789 to 2009. And it further argues that
the layering of denial across time makes it even more challenging for
contemporary Turkish state and society to acknowledge the violence.
When: Friday, March 8, 2013, from 1 to 3 p.m. (International Women's Day)
Where: Room H-1120, Henry F. Hall Building (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd.
W.), Sir George Williams Campus
Born, raised and educated in Istanbul, Turkey, Fatma Müge Göçek's
research focuses on the comparative analysis of history, politics,
gender and collective violence. Her published works include East
Encounters West: France and the Ottoman Empire in the 18th Century
(Oxford University Press, 1987), Reconstructing Gender in the Middle
East: Tradition, Identity, Power (Columbia University Press, 1994
co-edited with Shiva Balaghi), Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of
Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change (Oxford University
Press, 1996), Political Cartoons in the Middle East (Markus Wiener
Publishers, 1998), Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle
East (SUNY Press, 2002), The Transformation of Turkey: Redefining
State and Society from the Ottoman Empire to the Modern Era (I.B.
Tauris Publishers, 2011), and A Question of Genocide: Armenians and
Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire (Oxford University Press, 2011
co-edited with Ronald Grigor Suny and Norman Naimark). She has
recently finished a book manuscript entitled Deciphering Denial:
Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and the Collective Violence against the
Armenians, 1789-2009.
This event is organized by the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology and co-sponsored by the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, the
Montreal Insititute for Human Rights and Genocide Studies, CEREV and
Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability.
http://www.concordia.ca/now/upcoming-events/20130308/march-8---a-woman-scholars-reflections-on-denial.php