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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Conference announcement: The Armenian Genocide: Concepts and Comparative Perspectives (April 26 @ Boğaziçi)

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The Armenian Genocide: Concepts and Comparative Perspectives

Sunday, 26 April 2015

Boğaziçi University
Uçaksavar Kampüsü, Garanti Kültür Merkezi
Ayhan Şahenk Salonu

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PROGRAMME

10:00–10:30 Reception & Opening

10:30–12:00 Panel I—Concept

Moderator: Vangelis Kechriotis (Tarih Vakfı and Boğaziçi University)
A. Dirk Moses (European University Institute, Florence)
“The Concept of Genocide and the Foundation of the Post-War Order”
Pınar Dost-Niyego (independent researcher)
“Perceptions of the Holocaust in Turkey: Use/Misuse of the Holocaust Paradigm in Regard to the Armenian Genocide”
Uğur Ümit Üngör (Utrecht University)
“Recent Trends in Mass Violence Research and the Armenian Genocide”

12:00–13:30 Lunch Break

13:30–15:30 Panel II—Realization

Moderator: Seda Altuğ (Boğaziçi University)
Mehmet Polatel (Koç University)
“Dispossession and Property Transfer during the Armenian Genocide”
Keith David Watenpaugh (University of California, Davis)
” ‘Satılık çocuk var mı?': Genocide and the Forced Transfer of Armenian Children, 1915–1922″
Norman M. Naimark (Stanford University)
“The Armenian Genocide in Comparative Perspective”
Cathie Carmichael (University of East Anglia)
“De-Ottomanization and Genocide in Bosnia”

15:30–16:00 Break

16:00–17:30 Panel III—Memorialization

Moderator: Ayfer Bartu Candan (BoğaziçiUniversity)
Jay Winter (Yale University)
“Languages of Suffering: Martyrdom in the Armenian Genocide and in the Holocaust”
Fatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
“Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present and the Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789–2009″
Melissa Bilal (Columbia University)
“Inhabiting the Otherwise: Transmission of Armenian Communal-Historical Knowledge under Surveillance”

17:30–18:30 Closing Session

Robert Fisk (Independent newspaper, UK),
Ayhan Aktar (Istanbul Bilgi University),
Sebouh D. Aslanian (University of California, Los Angeles)
Bülent Bilmez (Tarih Vakfı and Istanbul Bilgi University)

This event is open to the public and free of charge. Simultaneous translation into Turkish will be provided.

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New photo from Facebook April 22, 2015 at 03:00PM

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Replica Kaaba, Replica Pilgrim in İstanbul… İstanbul news roundup…

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‘Replica Mecca’ in Istanbul raises eyebrows

Hurriyet Daily News

A district mayor in Istanbul from Turkey’s ruling AKP has raised eyebrows by constructing replicas of Islam’s holiest places and objects, yet the building idea seems to have spread elsewhere

A performance artist, Cihat Duman, with whom I stayed in the same building a few years ago, did this act after the replica Mecca and arrested briefly.

Concert in memory of Armenian intellectuals

Anatolian Culture and Kalan Music have collaborated to organize a concert inIstanbul to commemorate Armenian intellectuals who were sent to their deaths in 191

Hurriyet Daily News

Necropolis unearthed beneath Istanbul’s Pera

Eight Byzantine-era tombs have been unearthed during the restoration of a historic building in Istanbul’s Beyoğlu

International Halal Tourism event to be held in Istanbul

eTurboNews

CAIRO, Egypt – Over 1,000 delegates from more than 50 countries are expected to converge upon the capitol city of Istanbul, Turkey, for the second …

Halal Tourism Conference 2015 to be held in Istanbul – Financial Express

Pope’s remarks ‘to accelerate Hagia Sophia’s conversion into mosque’

According to an Islamic official , the pope’s statement ‘has reflected a modern color of the crusader wars launched in these lands for centuries’

Clichéd encounters in old Istanbul

FOLDED CORNER: ‘Stamboul Sketches: Encounters in Old Istanbul’ by John Freely (Eland, 208 pages, £12.99)

Ağaoğlu Raids Housing Community

Bianet :: English

Businessperson Ağaoğlu and his bodyguards staged a surprise attack on My World Europe Community Residents Welfare and Solidarity Foundation meeting founded by residents of My World Europe housing community and battered the president of the association.

Psychedelic sanat İstanbul’a taşınıyor

Psychedelic art in İstanbul

Istanbul Municipality rejects objections to mosque on Büyükada

The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has allowed for the construction of a mosque on the seafront of the biggest and most touristic island of Istanbul’s Princes’ Islands, after rejecting an objection of its members from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP)

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Journalism agenda: 2015 Pulitzer Prize winners…

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2015 Pulitzer Prize winners

kottke.org by Jason Kottke

Anthony Doerr Wins Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Elizabeth Kolbert won for General Nonfiction. Read more on writerswrite.com

Writerswrite.com’s Writer’s Blog /

Big Pulitzer Prizes go to several first-time winners and local newspapers

… a small newspaper from Charleston, South Carolina, won journalism’s biggest honor, taking home the Pulitzer Prize gold medal for service journalism for its work on violence against women The series, “Till Death Do Us Part,” brought attention to the state’s at-risk female population. The Pulitzercitation called the work “a riveting series that probed why South Carolina is among the deadliest states in the union for women and put the issue of what to do about it on the state’s age

Mashable! / by Jason Abbruzzese /

Pulitzer winners named in New York

… recognized newspaper coverage of local calamities and international emergencies in the 99th annual Pulitzer Prizes on April 2

Hurriyet Daily News / 12h

Investigative Reporting on MPAA’s SOPA Revival Effort WinsPulitzer

…New York Times series on secretive corporate lobbying of state attorneys general has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting today. The entire series does important digging on an area of political influence that’s generally less transparent than Congressional lobbying. But most relevant to EFF was the revelation last December—through emails revealed in last year’s high-profile Sony breach, as well as public records obtained by the paper—that the Motion Picture Association of Am

EFF.org Updates / by Parker Higgins /

What USA Today Sports learned covering the Final Four on Periscope and Snapchat

Nieman Journalism Lab by Tanya Sichynsky

There’s no shortage of ways to reach new audiences — the challenge is figuring out which are worth investing time in and what to do with them. At USA Today Sports, where I work, two platforms we’re trying to better understand and implement into our strategies are Snapchat and Periscope. The latter launched just two weeks ago, right before college basketball’s Final Four.

Newsonomics: The Wall Street Journal is playing a game of digital catchup

Nieman Journalism Lab by Ken Doctor

After the launch of its long-awaited web redesign, The Wall Street Journal hopes to spur innovation

April 21, 2015

Don’t just call it a redesign. The Wall Street Journal, like Bloomberg before it a couple of months ago, wants you think about more than

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This morning Turkish police broke down a historical gate at Grand Bazaar to arrest protesting shop owners…

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Polis saldırısına uğrayan Kapalıçarşı esnafı: Tarihi kapıyı patlatmazlar diye düşündük ama… http://t.co/QxTqMSATrQ http://ift.tt/1IGKb6c

— BirGün Gazetesi (@BirGun_Gazetesi) April 22, 2015

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Grand Bazaar shopkeepers taken into custody for occupying bazaar after being served eviction notices, since released http://http://ift.tt/1IGKcH9nafina-gece-baskini-20-gozalti-video-11650 …

‏@SpiritOfGezi

80 shopkeepers served w eviction notices occupied Grand Bazaar, locked doors #Istanbul #Turkey http://www.http://ift.tt/1IGKbmvnen-kapalicarsi-esnafi-kendini-bedestene-kilitledi-eylem-suruyor/ …