Join us for the latest AI Book Launch! This time we’ll be hearing all about ‘New Social Movements & the Armenian Question in Turkey: Civil Society vs. the State’, by Özlem Belçim Galip. The recently released book explores and comparatively assesses how Armenians as minorities have been represented in modern Turkey, from the twentieth century through to the present day, with a particular focus on the period since the first electoral victory of the AKP (Justice and Development Party) in 2002. It examines how social movements led by intellectuals and activists have challenged the Turkish state and called for democratization, and explores key issues related to Armenian identity. 

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For the evening we’ll be joined by author Özlem Belçim Galip, who will present the book and the research which led up to it, before opening for a Q&A.

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Author Bio:

Özlem Belçim Galip is a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Her current research, funded by Horizon2020, mainly concerns the activism of Kurdish migrant women in selected host European countries (France, Belgium, Sweden, Germany and the UK) in terms of artistic and cultural practices in both the language(s) of the host countries and the women’s native Kurdish language. Holding a PhD in Kurdish Studies from the University of Exeter, Özlem’s research has covered Kurdish artistic and literary narratives in Turkish Kurdistan and its European diaspora, and the representation of Armenians and the Genocide in Turkish and Kurdish novels. Apart from several research posts, she has worked at several Kurdish NGOs and women's and refugees’ organisations, including the Refugee Action Centre, which involved ethnographic and creative qualitative/quantitative research on Kurdish women living in Europe and Kurdish regions. She is currently in post-production for her ethnographic documentary film “Anywhere on this Road: Letters to My Unborn Daughter”, which explores Kurdish intellectual women in Europe and my own personal journey as a Kurdish woman migrant.

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Join us here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85176877420?pwd=VWtOMmF1NTlpMlZqODhZb0NmUGhPdz09

Meeting ID: 851 7687 7420

Passcode: 917317

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This event is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

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