Laurent Dissard

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  • It’s about time: New article on the Keban Dam

    It’s about time: New article on the Keban Dam

    My new article in Journal of European Studies explores how the Keban Dam’s promise of national progress coexisted with construction delays, continuing repair and disrupted futures for displaced villagers. Read more

  • Violence, Erasure, and Heritage after the Armenian Genocide

    Violence, Erasure, and Heritage after the Armenian Genocide

    A reflection on The Armenian Genocide: New Interpretations & Cross-Disciplinary Conversations held at the American University of Paris, focusing on how violence persists through erasure, heritage, and post-genocidal governance. Centering the panel Post-Genocide Victim Erasure and Appropriation, the post situates genocide beyond the event, in its afterlives. Read more

  • 06/02/23 Earthquake

    06/02/23 Earthquake

    On 06/02/23, two earthquakes hit Eastern Turkey with devastating effects. More than 160,000 buildings collapsed or were severely damaged, around 1,5 million people were left homeless, and more than 50,000 deaths were reported. We heard how 06/02 was the strongest in the region since the 1939 Erzincan earthquake. Some of us might remember Bingöl in… Read more

  • A Chance Discovery Below Harput

    A Chance Discovery Below Harput

    A municipal worker planting trees below Harput unexpectedly uncovered a monumental relief more than 4,000 years old. The stone, carved with scenes of siege and conquest, reveals an early chapter in the history of the Upper Euphrates—and raises a broader question about how some ancient monuments become global masterpieces while others remain little known. Read more

  • Contested World Orders: Heritage, Conflict, and the Politics of Preservation

    Contested World Orders: Heritage, Conflict, and the Politics of Preservation

    This conference hosted by the University of Bamberg brought together scholars in heritage studies and anthropology to examine how cultural heritage becomes entangled with conflict, governance, and political struggle, highlighting the ethical stakes of studying and intervening in contested pasts. Read more

  • Guerres de Syrie et dynamiques kurdes – Centre arabe de recherches et d’études politiques (CAREP)

    Guerres de Syrie et dynamiques kurdes – Centre arabe de recherches et d’études politiques (CAREP)

    Quelle est la place qu’ont occupé les Kurdes dans le conflit syrien ? Telle est la question à laquelle tente de répondre un collectif de chercheurs dans le 56e numéro de Cahier d’Histoire Immédiate. Si le sujet peut paraître largement abordé, voire surmédiatisé, les universitaires nous montrent qu’il reste beaucoup d’angles morts. Il s’agit en… Read more