Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung | Apoptotic Archive

Apoptotic Archive Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung 13 June 19:00 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]