Time and Trauma

A Global Think-in on Transgenerational Memories of Mass Suffering

April 16, 2015 • 17:00-19:00

Rectorate Conference Hall, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

• Rashid Khalidi, history, Columbia University, 20th-century Middle East
• Leyla Neyzi, anthropology, Sabancı University, 1915 in memory
• Murat Paker, psychotherapy, Bilgi University, Trauma of 1915
• Minoru Iwasaki, philosophy, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1923 massacre of Koreans in Japan
• Moderator: Edhem Eldem, history, Boğaziçi University

This event was open to the public. For more information, visit studio-xistanbul.org.

About the Politics of Memory in Global Context

Bringing together scholars of memory from the social sciences and humanities, cognitive science and neuroscience, and curators of historical and memorial museums to examine the politics and cultures of memory.

The Politics of Memory in Global Context is a Franco-American collaborative project that brings together scholars in the social sciences and humanities who work on collective or public memory; cognitive scientists, psychologists, and neuroscientists who work on individual memory; and curators of historical and memorial museums who present the past to the public.  The main museum partners are the Mémorial de Caen, the national World War II museum in France, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York.

Led by Professor Carol Gluck at Columbia, the project combines diverse disciplinary approaches and insists on considering its topics comparatively in global context in order to discern commonalities among them,  develop new analytic perspectives on the formation and operation of public memory, and  suggest policies for better political management of divisive memories within and between countries.

Learn more about the Politics of Memory in Global Context.