Category: Conferences & Workshops
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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.
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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.
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Sites of Memory, Sites of Loss
The 2022 Keyman Annual Conference examined heritage as a political process shaped by memory, loss, and power in Turkey and post-Ottoman lands, bringing together interdisciplinary scholars to address archaeology, urban transformation, and cultural dispossession.
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Guerres de Syrie et dynamiques kurdes – Congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans
Les dix ans du conflit en Syrie sont l’occasion de faire un état des lieux des usages de la « question kurde » au Moyen-Orient. Ces années de destructions sont aussi le moment de reconstructions : dans ce sens, cet atelier sur les conflits syriens et les dynamiques kurdes (2011-2021)…
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Academic Freedom: Reflections on a One-Day Workshop
At a moment when academic freedom faces renewed scrutiny, this one-day workshop at the Université de Pau examined researcher autonomy as a lived practice — negotiated through archives, ethics, fieldwork, and the everyday responsibilities of scholarly inquiry.
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Les Jeudis d’ITEM
The “Jeudis d’ITEM” are a series of monthly scientific seminar organized by the ITEM (Identities, Territories, Expressions, Mobilities) research laboratory at the University of Pau and the Pays de l’Adour (UPPA). During these meetings, members of the ITEM laboratory (teachers, researchers, and doctoral students) or invited guests present their research…
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Remembering Keban: Rescue Archaeology, Memory, and Critique
On November 9, 2018, METU hosted a conference marking fifty years since the Keban Dam Rescue Project. Drawing on archival research, I offered a critical reassessment of its celebrated legacy, situating rescue archaeology within broader debates on infrastructure, heritage, and power.
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Critical Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure: Drawing Out a Progressive-Oriented Agenda
A reflective overview of the 2016 UCL workshop “Critical Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure,” which brought together early-career scholars to explore infrastructure as a political, cultural, and socio-technical terrain shaping urban inequality, conflict, and future imaginaries.
