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From the Foundational Crime to the Making of a New State (and Nation): The End of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Turkish Republic<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Attend in person or on Zoom at\u00a0https:\/\/myumi.ch\/967mE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To mark the centennial year of the founding of the Turkish republic, WATS (the Workshop on Armenian and Turkish Scholarship) has decided to organize an eleventh workshop at the University of Michigan in the fall of 2023 under the auspices of the Center for Armenian Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marking the centenary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey, our conference aims to bring a critical perspective on the process of making states that involved ethnic cleansing or genocide. Few modern states are free of dark histories of exclusion, forced assimilation, or more sanguinary solutions to the remnants of imperial diversity. Investigating states that were founded on dispossession of indigenous peoples, we examine the Turkish past and the histories of the United States, Israel, and Australia, among others. Turkey is not unique, but its achievement in ridding Anatolia of Armenians and Assyrians, like the removal of Native Americans from continental United States, was admired by and positively referred to by Adolph Hitler as he planned his own genocidal policies in the lands to the east of Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our conference examines the ideological and strategic choices made by Ottoman and Turkish nationalist leaders as they attempted to \u201cmodernize\u201d their states through coercive demographic policies and the deployment of violence, which became enshrined as part of the repertoire of governance in the Kemalist state. Having eliminated the bulk of Christians, the heirs of the Ottomans repressed their former allies, the Kurds, turning what they conceived as a homogeneous ethnic nation-state into a mini-imperial state colonizing its non-Turkish subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as the controversial 1619 Project in the United States has contested the origins of the American republic by seeking its beginnings with the first importation of African slaves, rather than the revolutionary events of 1776, so shall this workshop explore the formative events and processes from the initiation of systemic reforms in the Ottoman Empire in 1789, through the Tanzimat reforms of 1839 and 1876, the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat of 1908 and the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1916, to the 1918 fall of the empire, the 1919-1922 rise of the Kemalist nationalist movement, and the 1923 founding of the Republic of Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
-Friday, November 10, 20239:30 Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Gottfried Hagen, Fatma M\u00fcge G\u00f6cek, Ronald Grigor Suny10:00-12:00 Session I:<\/strong>\u00a0From Reform to Revolution
Chair and Discussant:\u00a0Melanie Tanielian<\/strong>\u00a0(University of Michigan).Fatma M\u00fcge G\u00f6\u00e7ek<\/strong>\u00a0(University of Michigan) and\u00a0Murat \u00d6zy\u00fcksel<\/strong>\u00a0(University of British Columbia) Origins of the Republic of Turkey: Unionists and Local Congresses, 1918-1920Keith Watenpaugh<\/strong>\u00a0(University of California, Davis) \u2013 Kill the Armenian\/Indian; Save the Turk\/Man: Carceral Humanitarianism, the Transfer of Children and a Comparative History of Indigenous GenocideArmen Manuk-Khaloyan<\/strong>\u00a0(Georgetown University) \u2013 Intriguing Opportunities: International Finance, Great Power Diplomacy, and the Armenian National Banks Saga, 1912\u20131914Umit Kurt<\/strong>\u00a0(University of Newcastle, Australia) \u2013 Republic of Perpetrators: Talat Pasha\u2019s Genocide Technocrat Mustafa Re\u015fat Mimaro\u011flu2:00-4:00 Session II:<\/strong>\u00a0Revolution, War, Genocide and Their Afterlives
Chair and Discussant:\u00a0Ronald Grigor Suny<\/strong>\u00a0(University of Michigan)Merisa \u015eahin<\/strong>\u00a0(University of Michigan) \u2013\u00a0 The Early Young Turks and International Law: Carving an Ottoman CosmopolitanismSamuel Dolbee<\/strong>\u00a0(Vanderbilt University) \u2013 Germs of Nationalism and Intercommunal Microbes in the Late Ottoman EmpireSahika Karatepe<\/strong>\u00a0(State University of New York, Binghamton) \u2013 Gendered Labor History of the Armenian Genocide: Slave Labor, Social Reproduction and Sexual Violence in the Late Ottoman EmpireMehmet Polatel<\/strong>\u00a0(Hrant Dink Foundation) \u2013 Restitution Under Occupation: Property Disputes in the Post-War Ottoman EmpireSaturday, November 11, 202310:00-12:00 Session III:<\/strong>\u00a0The Fate of a Nascent Civil Society
Chair and Discussant:\u00a0Gottfried Hagen<\/strong>\u00a0(University of Michigan)Heghnar Watenpaugh<\/strong>\u00a0(University of California, Davis) \u2013\u00a0 Captive Sites and Survivor Objects: Theorizing the Cultural Heritage of Armenians in and out of TurkeyCeren Verbowski<\/strong>\u00a0(York University) \u2013 Ernst Diez as an \u201cEnemy of the Turks\u201d: A Historical Debate on the Purity of Turkish Art in the Face of Armenian and Byzantine RemainsAram Ghoogasian<\/strong>\u00a0(Princeton University) \u2013 Swords and Pens: Forging a Turkish CanonElif Shannon-Chastain<\/strong>\u00a0(University of California, Irvine) \u2013 The Mother of the Turkish Theater: Knar Svajian and the Transformation and: Turkification of the Ottoman-Armenian Theater, 1908-19262:00-4:00 Session IV:<\/strong>\u00a0Occupation, War of Liberation, and the Establishment of Violence as a Tool of Rule
Chair and Discussant:\u00a0Hakem Al-Rustom<\/strong>\u00a0(University of Michigan).David Gaunt\u00a0<\/strong>(S\u00f6dert\u00f6rn University) \u2013 Expulsion, Submission or Survival: Assyrian Christians in the Early Republic of TurkeyAri \u015eekeryan<\/strong>\u00a0(Independent Scholar) \u2013 The \u2018Armistice Complex\u2019 and the Foundation of the Republic of Turkey: Revisiting the Precarious Situation of the Armenian CommunityCevat Dargin<\/strong>\u00a0(University of Michigan) \u2013 Roadlessness: Ottoman Modernity Navigating Uncharted DersimVahram Ter-Matevosyan<\/strong>\u00a0(American University of Armenia) \u2013 Armenian Interpretations of Kemalism in the 1920-40s: Rethinking Intellectual Debates on Turkey\u2019s Ideological Foundations4:30-6:00 Session V:<\/strong>\u00a0Roundtable:\u00a0The Fatal Impossibility of Democracy: 100 Years of False Starts and FailuresFatma M\u00fcge G\u00f6\u00e7ek<\/strong>\u00a0(University of Michigan)
Ronald Grigor Suny<\/strong>\u00a0(University of Michigan Emeritus)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at armenianstudies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building:<\/th>Weiser Hall<\/td><\/tr>
Event Type:<\/th>Conference \/ Symposium<\/td><\/tr>
Tags:<\/th>armenia, Turkey<\/td><\/tr>
Source:<\/th>Happening @ Michigan from\u00a0Center for Armenian Studies,\u00a0International Institute<\/td><\/tr>
Upcoming Dates:<\/th>Friday, November 10, 2023\u00a09:30 AM-4:00 PMSaturday, November 11, 2023\u00a010:00 AM-6:00 PM\u00a0\u00a0(Last)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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