Mittwoch, 04. Dezember 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 iCal
Ringvorlesung Turkologie Wintersemester 2024/25
Cultural Heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia: Conservation and Destruction
October 9th, 2024 - January 22th, 2025, 5PM - 6:30PM
Institut für Orientalistik, Hörsaal
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 4.1 (Campus Universität Wien), A-1090 Wien
Hybrider Event (an einem physischen Ort und online)
Missing Heritages in Official Sites and Museums: Case of the Greek (‘Rum’) Communities of Istanbul
Gönül Bozoğlu (University of St. Andrews)
Abstract
In museum and heritage studies we ask whose heritages/histories/stories are represented and how; but also, what are the absences, and why? This talk will focus on absent stories in heritage and history in Turkey with a focus on the story of the Greek (‘Rum') communities of Istanbul, who have been subject to historical marginalisation and persecution, forced displacement, and depopulation. Today, Istanbul's remaining community is heavily diminished, although community life continues through key cultural institutions such as schools. A significant diaspora community lives in Athens. This research works with both to explore the ways in which people live with the past in the present, through maintaining cultural practices, through reminiscence and storytelling, and through museum-like collections and displays in their domestic lives and spaces, connecting personal memory to historical events. The talk explores how memory mapping and filmmaking are used as ways of presenting alternative heritages and histories that capture the emotional vividness of these practices and to create memory resources with and for the community, as well as for wider.
Bio
Gönül Bozoğlu is Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies at the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews, UK. She completed a PhD at Humboldt University, Berlin, which was the basis for her book Museums, Emotion and Memory Culture: the politics of the past in Turkey (Routledge 2021). She also works in the intersection of heritage studies and film practice and has made two major documentaries: Life After Life: the Greeks of Istanbul (2021) and The Journey and the Grief (2023). She has recently co-authored publications on the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (Journal of Social Archaeology, 21(1), 97-120. doi.org/10.1177/1469605321990454) and has recently co-edited the Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics (2024).
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Ayse Dilsiz Hartmuth
Institut für Orientalistik
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ayse.dilsiz.hartmuth@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Donnerstag, 19. September 2024, 13:20
Letzte Änderung am Mittwoch, 23. Oktober 2024, 10:46