Sunday 16 November 2014

AHRC OTTOMAN COSMOPOLITANISM PROJECT

IMPACT EVENT on 29/11 at BIRKBECK COLLEGE: 

MASTERCLASS & STORYTELLING PERFORMANCE

I am very pleased to organise our next impact event which will include a masterclass  led by theorist of postmemory, Marianne Hirsch (Professor, Columbia University) and archivist/creator of aka Kurdistan, Susan Meiselas (Magnum photographer) on the topic of transmedial/transcultural Ottoman memories and a Storytelling performance and Roundtable discussion to explore the importance of oral history for displaced communities in the Middle-East.  
The performance will be by Kurdish Dengbej , Suna Alan who will sing tales from collective memories from ex-Ottoman minorities including Armenian, Kurdish and Sephardi. Dengbej, a tradition of expressing the history and struggle of its people, played a vital role in transferring oral histories to new generations.

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