Conference on Islamized Armenians Islamized in 1915: History and Bearing Witness II

Panel 4 Ronald Grigor Suny, Chair Vahe Tachjian, Mixed Marriage, Prostitution, Survival: Reintegrating Survivor Women into Post-Ottoman Armenian Communities Arda Melkonian, Gender and Survival Options during the Armenian Genocide Doris Melkonian, Taken into Muslim Households: Experiences of Armenian Children during the Genocide Ishkhan Chiftjian, Islamization as an Instrument for Surviving and/or Disappearing: Theories and Practices of Islamization of Armenians during the 1915 Genocide Hilmar Kaiser, Assimilation of Armenian Deportees, 1915-1917 The Conference on Islamized Armenians, which is organized by Hrant Dink Foundation with the cooperation of Boğaziçi University History Deparment and MalatyaHAYDer and with the support of Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Chrest Foundation and Olof Palme International Center took place at Boğaziçi University's Albert Long Hall during 2-4 November 2013. The conference, which is intended as a gateway to amplify the academic research on the issue, consisted of eight panels in three days, one round tabel meeting, one forum and one workshop. Simultaneously with the conference, movie screenings were arranged. http://www.hrantdink.org/?Detail=753&Lang=en

Conference on Islamized Armenians Welcome Remarks and Opening Conversation

Welcome Remarks Rakel Dink, Hrant Dink Foundation President Gülay Barbarosoğlu, Boğaziçi University President Hosrof Köletavitoğlu, MalatyaHAYDer President Ayşe Gül Altınay, Hrant Dink Foundation and Sabancı University Opening Conversation Fethiye Çetin Nebahat Akkoç Sibel Asna The Conference on Islamized Armenians, which is organized by Hrant Dink Foundation with the cooperation of Boğaziçi University History Deparment and MalatyaHAYDer and with the support of Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Chrest Foundation and Olof Palme International Center took place at Boğaziçi University's Albert Long Hall during 2-4 November 2013. The conference, which is intended as a gateway to amplify the academic research on the issue, consisted of eight panels in three days, one round tabel meeting, one forum and one workshop. Simultaneously with the conference, movie screenings were arranged. http://www.hrantdink.org/?Detail=753&Lang=en

Conference on Islamized Armenians The Recent and Distant History of the Islamization

Panel 2 Meltem Toksöz, Chair Sergey Vardanian, Islamized Hemshin Armenians: Victims and Witnesses Serap Demir, Islamized Armenians: A Historical Approach to Hemshin and Its Environs Mahir Özkan, The Hemşinli Identity: Culture, Language and Religion Uğur Bahadır Bayraktar, Abduction, Marriage and Islamization in the Tanzimat Era Selim Deringil, Mass Conversion during the Hamidian Massacres 1894-1897 The Conference on Islamized Armenians, which is organized by Hrant Dink Foundation with the cooperation of Boğaziçi University History Deparment and MalatyaHAYDer and with the support of Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Chrest Foundation and Olof Palme International Center took place at Boğaziçi University's Albert Long Hall during 2-4 November 2013. The conference, which is intended as a gateway to amplify the academic research on the issue, consisted of eight panels in three days, one round tabel meeting, one forum and one workshop. Simultaneously with the conference, movie screenings were arranged. http://www.hrantdink.org/?Activities=3&Detail=753&Gallery=1348&Lang=en

Conference on Islamized Armenians Memory, Ethnicity, Religion: Kurdish Identity

Panel 6 Yektan Türkyılmaz, Chair Adnan Çelik, Survival Strategies of the Islamized Armenian Families: The Case of Diyarbakır Pasûr (Kulp) Davut Yeşilmen, The Perception of Armenians in the Modern Kurdish Novel and Representation of Collective Memory Ramazan Aras, Misilmeni: An Analysis of Perceptions of Muslim Armenians among Muslim Kurds Ümit Kurt & Murad Uçaner, A Facet of the Stories of Besni Armenian Orphans, who were Islamized during the 1915 Armenian Genocide The Conference on Islamized Armenians, which is organized by Hrant Dink Foundation with the cooperation of Boğaziçi University History Deparment and MalatyaHAYDer and with the support of Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Chrest Foundation and Olof Palme International Center took place at Boğaziçi University's Albert Long Hall during 2-4 November 2013. The conference, which is intended as a gateway to amplify the academic research on the issue, consisted of eight panels in three days, one round tabel meeting, one forum and one workshop. Simultaneously with the conference, movie screenings were arranged. http://www.hrantdink.org/?Detail=753&Lang=en

Conference on Islamized Armenians Traces of Memory: Music, Food and Stories

Panel 5 Ferhunde Özbay, Chair Wendy Hamelink, Musical Memories of Sasun Armenians Nevin Yıldız Tahincioğlu, A Story of Existence: What Remains from Sara... Rubina Peroomian, Muslim Armenians, a Paradox? The Conference on Islamized Armenians, which is organized by Hrant Dink Foundation with the cooperation of Boğaziçi University History Deparment and MalatyaHAYDer and with the support of Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Chrest Foundation and Olof Palme International Center took place at Boğaziçi University's Albert Long Hall during 2-4 November 2013. The conference, which is intended as a gateway to amplify the academic research on the issue, consisted of eight panels in three days, one round tabel meeting, one forum and one workshop. Simultaneously with the conference, movie screenings were arranged. http://www.hrantdink.org/?Detail=753&Lang=en

Conference on Islamized Armenians The Grandchildren

Ayşe Gül Altınay, Chair Fethiye Çetin Ferda Balancar, Hrant Dink Foundation Oral History Group Miran Pirgiç Gültekin, Association of Dersim Armenians Hikmet Akçiçek, Hemshin Association for Research and Cultural Preservation Işınsu Koç The Conference on Islamized Armenians, which is organized by Hrant Dink Foundation with the cooperation of Boğaziçi University History Deparment and MalatyaHAYDer and with the support of Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Chrest Foundation and Olof Palme International Center took place at Boğaziçi University's Albert Long Hall during 2-4 November 2013. The conference, which is intended as a gateway to amplify the academic research on the issue, consisted of eight panels in three days, one round tabel meeting, one forum and one workshop. Simultaneously with the conference, movie screenings were arranged. http://www.hrantdink.org/?Detail=753&Lang=en

Conference on Islamized Armenians Islamized in 1915: History and Bearing Witness I

Panel 3 Raymond Kévorkian, Chair Taner Akçam, Assimilation as a Structural Element in the Conversion of the Armenians Armen Marsoobian, An Untold Story of Survival: An 'Islamized' Armenian Family in Marsovan, 1915-1919 Anna Aleksanyan, Ruben Heryan: Liberator of Armenian Women and Children from Muslim Families after the Armenian Genocide Gayane Çobanyan, The Question of Arabized Armenians The Conference on Islamized Armenians, which is organized by Hrant Dink Foundation with the cooperation of Boğaziçi University History Deparment and MalatyaHAYDer and with the support of Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Chrest Foundation and Olof Palme International Center took place at Boğaziçi University's Albert Long Hall during 2-4 November 2013. The conference, which is intended as a gateway to amplify the academic research on the issue, consisted of eight panels in three days, one round tabel meeting, one forum and one workshop. Simultaneously with the conference, movie screenings were arranged. http://www.hrantdink.org/?Activities=3&Detail=753&Gallery=1348&Lang=en

Conference on Islamized Armenians Memory and Identity

Panel 8 Müge Gürsoy Sökmen, Chair Helin Anahit, The Rivers of Memory: Exploring Collective Memory and Cultural Assumptions through the Voice of the Islamized Armenians in Turkey Laurence Ritter, Reconstructing Identity: The Importance of Family Structure among Hidden and Islamized Armenians - A case-study Anoush Suni, Displacement and the Production of Difference: Islamized Armenians and Imagined Geographies The Conference on Islamized Armenians, which is organized by Hrant Dink Foundation with the cooperation of Boğaziçi University History Deparment and MalatyaHAYDer and with the support of Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Chrest Foundation and Olof Palme International Center took place at Boğaziçi University's Albert Long Hall during 2-4 November 2013. The conference, which is intended as a gateway to amplify the academic research on the issue, consisted of eight panels in three days, one round tabel meeting, one forum and one workshop. Simultaneously with the conference, movie screenings were arranged. http://www.hrantdink.org/?Detail=753&Lang=en

Conference on Islamized Armenians Memory, Ethnicity, Religion: Dersim

Panel 7 Murat Yüksel, Chair Nezahat Gündoğan & Kazım Gündoğan, Armenians in 1937-38 Dersim's Tertele Hranush Kharatyan, "I am from Dersim": Avoiding Identity among Dersim Population and Alevized Armenians of Dersim Gökçen B. Dinç, Protected but Discriminated: Dersim Armenians The Conference on Islamized Armenians, which is organized by Hrant Dink Foundation with the cooperation of Boğaziçi University History Deparment and MalatyaHAYDer and with the support of Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Chrest Foundation and Olof Palme International Center took place at Boğaziçi University's Albert Long Hall during 2-4 November 2013. The conference, which is intended as a gateway to amplify the academic research on the issue, consisted of eight panels in three days, one round tabel meeting, one forum and one workshop. Simultaneously with the conference, movie screenings were arranged. http://www.hrantdink.org/?Detail=753&Lang=en

Conference on Islamized Armenians Religion and Identity

Rober Koptaş, Chair Krikor Ağabaloğlu Cemal Uşak Hidayet Şefkatli Tuksal The Conference on Islamized Armenians, which is organized by Hrant Dink Foundation with the cooperation of Boğaziçi University History Deparment and MalatyaHAYDer and with the support of Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Chrest Foundation and Olof Palme International Center took place at Boğaziçi University's Albert Long Hall during 2-4 November 2013. The conference, which is intended as a gateway to amplify the academic research on the issue, consisted of eight panels in three days, one round tabel meeting, one forum and one workshop. Simultaneously with the conference, movie screenings were arranged. http://www.hrantdink.org/?Detail=753&Lang=en