"Narratives of 'Home': Violence, Spatial Belonging, and Everyday Life for Armenian Genocide Survivors" - Public lecture by Ayşenur Korkmaz (PhD Candidate, University of Amsterdam), 2019-2020 Center Katz Research Fellow

In this talk, Ayşenur Korkmaz explored how the survivors and their descendants reflect on their ‘place of origin’ and ex-social networks in the former Ottoman Empire. What did or does ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ mean to them when it no longer exists in the way that they imagine(d)? How do we make sense of their site of memories and imaginations of the material and relational ‘home,’ and everyday life before the genocide? Drawing upon the video and audio testimonies of Armenian survivors available in the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, she reflected on some of the critical concepts such as homeland, displacement, socio-spatiality, home, and materiality to understand the post- Armenian genocide period.

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