FACULTY OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY | Seminar
Planning seminar: Embodied Memory in Post-violence Contexts: Circassians— A Transnational Analysis

Thursday 6 November, 13:15 - 15:00
Niagara, 9th floor, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1 or Zoom 6
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Welcome to a planning seminar titled Embodied Memory in Post-violence Contexts: Circassians— A Transnational Analysis.

Speaker

Gülnur Demirci, doctoral student in International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Malmö University, University of Groningen.

Supervisors

Bo Petersson, Professor, Malmö University
Christofer Berglund, Associate Professor, Malmö University

Reader

Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Professor, Malmö University

Abstract

This interdisciplinary PhD project, at the intersection of memory, migration, and genocide studies, investigates how contemporary Circassian communities in Türkiye, Russia, and Germany have developed and deployed memory practices across national boundaries. Circassians, the indigenous people of the North Caucasus, faced a large-scale massacre in 1864 when they finally lost 101 years of war against the tsarist Russia. Most of the survivors were expelled to the Ottoman lands, later on, to find themselves in nation states such as Türkiye, Jordan, and Syria. With further displacements and waves of migration, Circassian communities were also formed in Europe. Their practices and politics of cultural memory are closely entangled with the ways they position themselves in their host countries and project their futures. The understudied case of the globally dispersed Circassian community provides insights into the role of diverse sociopolitical contexts and transnational networks in developing cultural memory practices. This project offers a multi-scalar analysis by exploring how cultural memory and its embodied manifestations have been informed by local (in-group context and agents of memory), national (socio-political developments in the receiving countries), and transnational developments.

Attendance

This is a hybrid seminar, you are welcome to connect via Zoom or join us at MIM seminar room, floor 9, Niagara, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1. To attend on campus, please gather by the reception area at 13.05.
If you have any questions, send an email to mim@mau.se.