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[George And Irina Schaeffer Center] “Use Consoling Words For Our Butchered Nation”: Armenian Feminists’ Post-Genocide Expectations From their Turkish Counterparts
March 9, 2021 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am PST
A LECTURE BY PROF. LERNA EKMEKCIOGLU
The immediate aftermath of the genocide was a time of both misery and hope for Armenians. Emboldened by the Ottoman defeat, Allies’ occupation of the Ottoman capital and their wartime promises for justice, Armenian feminists of Constantinople did not shy away from asking Turkish women to acknowledge the damage and help Armenians stitch back their broken nation. Once the Turkish Republic was founded, such discourses metamorphosed into one that celebrated secular modernity. Silences took over. They have since been now normalized. The talk explores the trajectories of gendered solidarity and its absence in the face of catastrophe.