Narrating Migration, Migrating Narratives with Retracing Connections, Posthane and SRII moderated by Dr. Susan Rottmann, PI in GAPs project at Ozyegin University
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Narratives crossing linguistic and state borders and people translating their life stories in order to be allowed to inhabit a space are both timeless and very timely topics. The focus of this event is on the practices, challenges and methodologies of working with stories that migrate and on narrating the experience of migration. From the transformational impact of labor migration on eighteenth-century Istanbul, to archiving folktales and recording food practices of Syrian refugees, to studying gender dynamics in contemporary circular labor migration between Georgia and Turkey, this debate spotlights complex phenomena and intricate scholarly choices. It does so through the lenses of anthropology, historiography, spatial analysis, and urban and heritage studies.
How do scholars deal with restrictive categorization of migrating subjects? How can they reconcile institutional metanarratives and rebellious testimonies? When the emotional and the intellectual intertwine, how can scholars stay true to their fieldwork and archives, while trying to write legitimate and ethical histories of migration?
Dr. Susan Rottmann, PI in GAPs project at Ozyegin University is moderating the event entitled Narrating Migration, Migrating Narratives, part of Beyond Babel program series, co-organized by the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul and the Retracing Connections research project.
Speakers:
Shirine Hamadeh, Koç University | Marianne Boqvist, Folke Bernadotte Academy | Pinar Ensari, Koç University | Moderator: Susan Rottmann, Özyeğin University
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