In Search of My Lost Family: The Story of a Queer Archive

Serdar Soydan In Search of My Lost Family: The Story of a Queer Archive 10 January 2018 SALT     The story of Serdar Soydan’s archive starts with a gay man who just came to terms with his own sexuality. In a time when the internet was not common, when reaching information was not as […]

Stavros Anestidis Shared Memory of Asia Minor’s Greek Orthodox Population

Stavros Anestidis Shared Memory of Asia Minor’s Greek Orthodox Population 14 November 2017 DEPO         The Center for Asia Minor Studies in Athens holds the most comprehensible archive related to the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey. Associate director of the center, Stavros Anestidis, talks about the center’s history and the […]

Prof. Dr. Zeynep Sayın An-Archive

Prof. Dr. Zeynep Sayın An-Archive 11 October 2017 Studio X     “Reflections on archive/ arche/ an-arche/ margin of archive/ album/ atlas/ martyrdom/ art”   A professor of visual studies and literary criticism, Zeynep Sayın talks about the ontology of archive. Through the history of archiving, her talk focuses on the complicated relationship between archive […]

Prof. Igor Loskutov Seed Archives

Prof. Igor Loskutov Seed Archives 27 September 2017 SALT Galata       The second season of After the Archive? talks series started with a presentation by one of the largest and most prominent seed archives in the world; St. Petersburg’s Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (VIR). Professor Igor G. Loskutov from VIR talks […]

Truth Justice Memory Center

Gamze Hızlı, Özlem Kaya (Truth Justice Memory Center) Memory, justice, archive 04 February 2017 5533 (İMÇ)         The Truth Justice Memory Center aims to uncover the truth concerning past violations of human rights in Turkey, to strengthen collective memory about those violations and support survivors in their pursuit of justice. Project coordinators […]

Hrant Dink Foundation Archiving Cultural Heritage

Nagehan Uskan, Vahakn Keshishian and Selin Sönmez (Hrant Dink Foundation’s Cultural Heritage Project Team) Archiving Cultural Heritage 01 February 2017 Hrant Dink Foundation, Anarad Hığutyun Edifice   Hrant Dink Foundation’s Cultural Heritage Project Team talks about the foundation’s history of activities in the field of cultural heritage, as well as their ongoing archive and oral […]

Bikem Ekberzade Invisible Archive

Bikem Ekberzade Invisible Archive 21 January 2017 5533 (İMÇ)     Bikem Ekberzade is a photo journalist who works for international media outlets and human rights organizations. She makes news and photo coverage from war and migration zones. Ekberzade talks about  photographs taken for on-site monitoring in conflict zones by photojournalists that are tasked by […]

The Cumhuriyet Archive Tour with the newspaper’s archivists

The Cumhuriyet Archive Tour of the archive with the newspaper’s archivists 14 January 2017 Cumhuriyet Headquarters   On November 9th, 2016 the digital archive of Radikal had been erased. The memory of one of Turkey’s prominent newspapers as well as a part of Turkey’s public memory vanished for a certain amount of time. Although the […]

Köken Ergun Selections from B’selem Video Archive

Köken Ergun Selections from B’selem Video Archive 24 December 2016 5533 (İMÇ)     B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories was founded in 1989 for monitoring, documenting and advocating to improve human rights in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Since 2007, as part of its Camera […]