Herkese Açık Etkinlik · Düzenleyen: Talin Suciyan
The Ottoman Empire and Its Eastern Provinces.The Turkish Studies Chair of the Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon) and the Gomidas Institute (London), will be hosting a new lecture series entitled “The Ottoman Empire and its Eastern Provinces” (Winter 2012). The lectures will be given by leading scholars from Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden and the United States on a variety of topics that still resonate with us today. Each month one speaker will make their presentation to a critical audience in Munich, and each talk will be reported for the benefit of the broader scholarly community.
13.12.2012
Dr. Janet Klein: The Armenian Genocide and The Kurds: Reconceptualizing the Link Between Ethnicity and Culpability
Abstract: Until recently, scholarship on the Armenian Genocide has remained narrowly focused on either the issue of a “smoking gun,” or whether or not the violence that claimed the lives of over a million Armenians and displaced many others can be called a genocide. Related to this larger trend in scholarship is an obsession with attributing culpability (or victimhood) to specific ethnic groups. Unfortunately, due to the extremely political nature of the historical events in question, works that attempt to step outside of these paradigms as they have been handed down for decades have, until recently, been few and far between. This presentation traces and historicizes the criminal careers of a Kurdish tribal chief named Hüseyin Pasha and his “colleagues” in the Hamidiye Light Cavalry, which was a late-Ottoman Kurdish tribal militia that was established in 1890, and through this I endeavor to move not only beyond answers given, but also questions asked thus far in the matter of Kurdish-Armenian violence. My presentation aims to offer a few interrelated contributions to the historiography on anti-Armenian violence in the late-Ottoman period, and to demonstrate how the tragic events were part of the larger trauma involved in the empire’s transition to a nation-state and to the “thinking” that accompanied that shift, and the dramatic role that foreign intervention played in pitting certain groups against others.
Janet Klein is Associate Professor of History at the University of Akron, where she teaches courses on the Ottoman Empire, the modern Middle East, and mass violence. Her research has focused on state-society relations as well as nationalism, identity, and gender dynamics from a historical perspective, and her primary area of focus—late-Ottoman Kurdistan—has served as a lens through which she explores wider issues that extend beyond this geography and time period. Dr. Klein is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including the Fulbright-Hays fellowship for dissertation research abroad. She is the author of The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone (Stanford University Press, 2011) and numerous other articles and book chapters.
The lecture will take place on 13th of Dezember, 18:00 c.t. in Schellingstr. 3, 007
7.11.2012
Prof. Dr. David Gaunt : The Violence of Neighbors: Inter-Religious Violence in Late Ottoman Diyarbakır.
Up until the Twentieth Century Eastern Anatolia was host to a mosaic of different linguistic, religious and ethnic groups. They lived closely together,their lifestyles sometimes overlapped, clan and family structures were similar, many persons were multiligual and the groups were often economically interdependent with a sharp division of labor. This was a violent area and the groups traditionally could defend themselves against their neighbors. But in the late 1800’s the balance of power tipped away and some of the Kurdish tribes (with the help of the state) became dominant, while other Kurdish tribes, Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans and Syrian Orthodox found themselves in great problems. They found could not defend themselves without powerful allies and this sucked them into Kurdish inter-tribal warfare. The Christian farmers constantly lost land, animals and influence (despite foreign interventions). A process of socio-economic marginalization of native Christian peoples culminated in the genocide of Worl War I that is often called Seyfo, the year of the sword.
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