1922 : In the Wake of the Death of an Empire

09:30-10:00 | Welcome and Coffee

10:00-10:30 | Workshop Opening

Welcoming Remarks

Chris Roosevelt (ANAMED-Koç University)

Introduction

Angelos Dalachanis (CNRS-IHMC) and Alexis Rappas (Koç University)

10:30-12:30 | Session 1 : Repositories : Identifying and Constituting the Archives of Entrenched Minorities

Chair : Olof Heilo (Swedish Research Institute-Istanbul/University of Lund)

Discussant : OKerem Tınaz (Koç University)

Challenges in Studying Archival Material in Ladino : Examples from the Cohen Family Archive, CAHJP and Ottoman Archives

Defne Özözer (Université de Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/Helsingin Yliopisto)

Refugees and Minorities in the Archives on Syria (1921-1946)

Seda Altuğ (Boğaziçi University)

Becoming Sectarian in Egypt : Charitable Societies and the Politics of Ta‘ifa in Twentieth Century Cairo

Amy Fallas (UC Santa Barbara)

12:30-14:00 | Lunch break

14:00-16:00 | Session 2 : Enactments : Oral Testimonies and Soundscapes of the Entrenched Minorities

Chair : Denis Hermann (Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes)

Discussant : Ayşe Özil (Sabancı University)

Gatekept Archives, Entrenched Repertoires : Studying Rum Theatre and Performance in Contemporary Turkey

Christina Banalopoulou (Staging National Abjection Project)

Searching the Musical Archives of the Greeks of the Ottoman Empire

Miltiadis Pappas (Istanbul University)

The Lives of Orthodox Rum Church Guardians : From Antakya to Istanbul

Eric Larden (Koç University)

16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break

16:30-18:30 | Session 3 : Presences : Tracking Minorities Against the Conventional Archival Grain

Chair : Alexis Wick (Koç University)

Discussant : Haris Theodorelis-Rigas (Koç University)

Tracing Minorities in the Economic Field in the Early Turkish Republican Period

Neslişah L. Başaran Lotz (Kadir Has University)

On Armenian Written and Oral Archives Through the Lens of Jerusalem and Los Angeles

Arman Khachatryan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Republic of Armenia)

Archival Traces of Minority Communities in Egypt

Maria Papanicolaou (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) & Stephen Urgola (American University of Cairo)