After “Time of the Gypsies”: On the Archives of Roma People

Gonca Girgin and Elmas Arus 25 August 2021, 19:00, Postane  Gonca Girgin and Elmas Arus talk about the international construction of Gypsy identity and the position of Roma people among Anatolian cultures. Gonca Girgin Modern Perceptions of Gypsies: Silence, Being Together and Being In-Between Differentiated from other nomadic communities in the late 18th century, ethnicized during […]

AFRO – TÜRK – İZMİR / Black Memory of Western Anatolia

26 June 2021, Darağaç, 14:00-21:30 After the Archive?, Darağaç and the Afro-Türk Association presents!  A day-long event where Afro-Turks of İzmir will meet with local artists. In a midsummer’s day, a series of talks, presentations, concerts, and exhibitions presented around Darağaç neighborhood will highlight the black public memory of Western Anatolia. All activities will take […]

Erol Köroğlu | Köroğlu Gazetesi 1928: The Alphabet Reform Illustrated

Köroğlu Gazetesi 1928: The Alphabet Reform Illustrated Erol Köroğlu 19 February 2020 – 19:00 SALT Galata   Köroğlu Gazetesi was a popular illustrated newspaper in print during the Alphabet Reform in 1928, when the Arabic script was replaced by Latin letters. Its pages show how this change took place in the time stretch of just […]

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung | Apoptotic Archive

Apoptotic Archive Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung 13.06.2019 Studio-X After the Archive? hosts Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. “The fundamental questions are: Who has the right to memory? Which must be understood as who has the right to govern memory, to choose what is to become public memory and how should it become? Public because the Greek […]

Talât Ulusoy | Shadows and Reality: Confronting İzmir’s past

Shadows and Reality: Confronting İzmir’s past Talât Ulusoy 26 March 2019, DEPO 19:00     In his talk, Talât Ulusoy will elaborate on the disappearance of the Smyrna culture, the fate of forcibly exchanged properties and the larger impact of demographic changes in the region, in the aftermath of the great Smyrna fire in 1922. […]

Saadet Özen | The Critique of Criticism About Nostalgia

Saadet Özen The Critique of Criticism About Nostalgia 13 November 2018 18:30 Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat     “After the Archive?” talk series sets out to make inquiries about the role of archives in public memory since 2016. Hosted by Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat, the third season of the series inaugurates with archaeologist and historian […]

Serdar Soydan | 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 […]