INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP Adana 1909: History, Memory, and Identity from a Hundred Year Perspective Boğaziçi University History Department, the Gomidas Institute, the International Hrant Dink Foundation, Istanbul Bilgi University History Department and Sabancı University are organizing a workshop with the above title to take place in Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum Sakıp Sabancı Cad. No. 42 Emirgan 34467 Istanbul Tel. +90 (212) 277 22 00 on November 6-7, 2009. Below please find the program of this event. The workshop languages are English and Turkish; simultaneous translation will be provided. If you wish to attend, please send an e-mail message to: info@hrantdink.org by Thursday, November 5, 17:00 latest. Organizing Committee Hülya Adak (Sabancı Fikret Adanır (Sabancı Cengiz Aktar (International Hrant Dink Foundation) Ayşe Gül Altınay (International Hrant Dink Foundation and Sabancı Ahmet Ersoy (Boğaziçi Ara Sarafian (The Gomidas Institute) Meltem Toksöz (Boğaziçi Mete Tunçay (Istanbul Bilgi
ADANA 1909: History, Memory, and Identity from a Hundred Year Perspective Sabancı Museum November 6-7, 2009 ovember 6 FRIDAY 9.00 9.30 Opening Remarks Organizing Committee 9.30 10.10 Historical, Political and Chair: Selim Deringil (Boğaziçi Economic Context - I Abdülhamit Kırmızı (SOAS) Ileana Moroni (EHESS) Feelings of Gratitude: Muslim Rescuers of Armenians in Adana 1909 The Ottoman Parliament s Interpretation of the 1909 Events: A manifestation of irtica? 10.10 10.40 10.40 11.00 Coffee Break 11.00 12.00 12.00 12.30 Historical, Political and Economic Context - I Benedetta Guerzoni Osman Köker (Birzamanlar Yayıncılık) Chair: Selim Deringil (Boğaziçi The Armenian Question in the Western Images of the Adana Massacres (1909) Armenians in the Vilayet of Adana 12.30 14.00 Lunch 14.00 14.40 Historical, Political and Economic Context II Sinan Dinçer (Ruhr University, Bochum) Fuat Dündar (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Chair: Çağlar Keyder (Boğaziçi Migrant Laborers and Adana Massacres Adana of 1909 and Measuring the Massacres as a Statistical Issue 14.40 15.10 15.10 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 16.30 16:30-17:00 Historical, Political and Economic Context II Aslı Çomu (Cambridge Ara Sarafian (Gomidas Institute) Nazan Maksudyan (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) Chair: Çağlar Keyder (Boğaziçi Armenian Property and Change of Ownership: Distribution of Abandoned Armenian Property in Adana in the 1920s Armenian Master-Narratives of Adana Massacres 1909 Adana Massacres and the Ottoman Orphanage (Dârü'l-Eytâm-ı Osmânî): Controversy over Religion, Language, and Education
ovember 7 9.30 10.30 10.30 11.00 SATURDAY Testimonies and Responses -I Dilek Güven Vincent Duclert (EHESS) Barbara Merguerian (Armenian International Women s Association) Chair: Hülya Adak (Sabancı 1909 Events in the Archives of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs Policy of silence in 1909: France, Europe and the Adana Massacres Adana 1909: The American Response 11.00 11.20 Coffee Break 11.20 12.20 Testimonies and Responses -I Zakarya Mildanoğlu (International Hrant Dink Foundation) Meltem Toksöz (Boğaziçi Marc Nichanian (Columbia Chair: Hülya Adak (Sabancı 1909 Adana Events in the Light of Armenian Language Periodicals Reading the Adana Massacres with Karabet Çallıyan: Memory as the Staging of the Past Testimony and Mourning after Adana 12.20 12.50 12.50 14.30 Lunch 14.30 15.10 15.10 15.40 Testimonies and Responses II Sait Çetinoğlu (Belge Uluslarası Yayıncılık, Istanbul) Rita Kuyumjian (McGill University, Montreal) Chair: Murat Belge (Istanbul Bilgi Cilicia 1909: Massacre of the Justice in Adana A Month in Cilicia by Arshagouhi Teotig 15.40 16.00 Coffee Break 16.00 16.40 Testimonies and Responses II Oral Çalışlar (Radikal Newspaper, Istanbul) Lou Ann Matossian (Cafesjian Family Foundation) Chair: Murat Belge (Istanbul Bilgi Letters by Helen Davenport Gibbons: Tarsus 1909 Missionary Witness: The Christie Family Papers on the Cilician Massacres of 1909
16.40-17.10 17.10 18.00 Final Comments and Fikret Adanır (Sabancı and Mete Tunçay (Istanbul Bilgi