{"title":"Témoigner malgré toutLes récits des victimes du génocide des Arméniens face aux violences sexuées","authors":"J. Chabot, M. Doucet, Sylvia Kasparian","doi":"10.4000/EAC.987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/EAC.987","url":null,"abstract":"Depuis deja deux decennies, les travaux menes a partir d’une approche genree des genocides ont profite d’un renouvellement des methodes et des questionnements. C’est ainsi que les recherches sur le genocide des Armeniens ont explore les violences specifiques commises contre les femmes. Dans cette perspective, les travaux des chercheurs issus de differentes disciplines ont montre que l’ideologie genree (ou gender ideology) a joue un role determinant des le debut du genocide des Armeniens avec la separation et le massacre des hommes. Quant aux femmes, elles sont victimes de viols, d’enlevements, d’esclavage sexuel et de conversions forcees a l’islam. Selon plusieurs chercheurs, ces elements font tous partie d’un programme genocidaire « d’assimilation biologique ». A partir d’une approche multidisciplinaire qui conjugue histoire et linguistique, nous voulons interroger les recits des temoins du genocide des Armeniens en lien avec les violences sexuees perpetrees contre les victimes. Dans cette perspective, notre analyse porte sur le contenu enonciatif des temoignages et sur les dispositifs rhetoriques par lesquels ils representent les violences sexuees infligees aux victimes. Notre corpus est compose de temoignages livres et publies au plus pres de l’evenement. Celui-ci est analyse au prisme d’outils informatiques de pointe en analyse du discours.","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70071026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural Erasure: The Absorption and Forced Conversion of Armenian Women and Children, 1915-1916","authors":"Ümit Kurt","doi":"10.4000/EAC.997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/EAC.997","url":null,"abstract":"Religious conversion and forced assimilation of Armenian women and children into Muslim households were two of the most significant structural components of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. In other words, Islamization of Armenian women and children – as well as imposition of Muslim culture, education, and traditions upon them – was one of the most significant aspects of the Armenian Genocide. Although conversion can be viewed as a survival mechanism for Armenian victims, in many cases, this strategy failed. Along with their friends, neighbors, and families, converts were also deported and exterminated in many provinces and districts throughout Anatolia during the genocide. This article primarily employs Ottoman archival materials to explore the conversion of Armenians as a bureaucratic process and the assimilation policies of the CUP government in the Armenian deportation and genocide. It analyzes the CUP’s official directives, disclosing how the conversion process was implemented at the local level.","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70071083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stefan Ihrig, Justifying Genocide in Germany. Violence against the Ottoman Armenians and German reactions, from Bismarck to Hitler","authors":"R. Kévorkian","doi":"10.4000/eac.1051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/eac.1051","url":null,"abstract":"Le dernier livre de l’historien allemand Stefan Ihrig porte sur la reception des violences de masse et du genocide des Armeniens en Allemagne et couvre une cinquantaine d’annees. L’ouvrage, qui s’amorce avec les massacres de 1894-1896, degage une idee-force, a savoir que les exactions commises contre la population armenienne ont ete regulierement legitimees au niveau de l’Etat allemand et, dans une certaine mesure par l’opinion publique, avec quelques notables exceptions comme Joannes Lepsius...","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"1 1","pages":"131-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70068222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marc Fromager, Guerres, pétrole et radicalisme. Les chrétiens d’Orient pris en étau","authors":"Taoufik Bourgou","doi":"10.4000/eac.1053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/eac.1053","url":null,"abstract":"Il s’attache a l’exercice academique de recension le choix d’un ouvrage et d’un auteur qui peut illustrer un dialogue avec une discipline et permettrait par la-meme de saisir les evolutions des objets, des cadres d’analyses, des methodes et des paradigmes. L’ouvrage et l’auteur choisis pour cette lecture critique n’entrent pas dans cette categorie, ni dans l’exercice de la confrontation academique a une nouvelle voie d’analyse et de recherche. L’auteur est un militant agissant dans l’aide aux...","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"1 1","pages":"133-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70068284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adnan Çelik et Namık Kemal Dinç, Yüz Yıllık Ah ! Toplumsal Hafızanın Izinde. 1915 Diyarbekir","authors":"Duygu Tasalp","doi":"10.4000/eac.1040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/eac.1040","url":null,"abstract":"Le livre Yuz Yillik Ah! Toplumsal Hafizanin Izinde. 1915 Diyarbekir presente les resultats d’une enquete d’histoire orale, realise de l’automne 2013 a l’ete 2014 sur la memoire du genocide des Armeniens dans la region de Diyarbakir. Il a ete publie en Turquie en 2015, par la fondation Ismail Besikci Vakfi. Adnan Celik, doctorant en anthropologie a l’Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, avait deja participe a un projet d’histoire orale, en tant qu’assistant de projet sous la direction...","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"1 1","pages":"107-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70067660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bedross Der Matossian, Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire","authors":"Yaşar Tolga Cora","doi":"10.4000/eac.1043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/eac.1043","url":null,"abstract":"The recent revolutions that have taken place in the Middle East – the so-called Arab Spring –raised great hopes of democratization. However, soon after, expectations of a better life sank into chaos and even civil war, as in the ongoing conflict in Syria, claiming the lives of tens of thousands and fueling the emigration of millions to neighboring countries. Why do revolutions fail, and how do they betray expectations of freedom, equality, and justice, resulting in waves of mass violence alon...","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"1 1","pages":"118-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70067758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artist and Revolutionary: Panos Terlemezian as an Ottoman Armenian Painter","authors":"Gizem Tongo","doi":"10.4000/EAC.893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/EAC.893","url":null,"abstract":"Probably no painter in the late Ottoman Empire was at war with the ruling block more than the Ottoman Armenian artist Panos Terlemezian (1865-1941). Terlemezian was politically active against the Ottoman state’s periodic repressions of its Armenian subjects during the absolutist regime of Sultan Abdulhamid II (r. 1876-1909) and also during the Armenian Genocide of 1915. As such his early life was scarred by prison and exile. Yet neither his political commitments nor his constant displacements prevented him from becoming the most talented of painters, first, of modern Ottoman art, and then, of modern Armenian art. Focusing on the period 1885-1915, this paper explores Terlemezian’s “initial identity” as an Ottoman-Armenian painter; situating him within both the history of the late-Ottoman Empire in which he became a revolutionary and within the international art world with which he interacted as he was developing as an artist. This paper concludes that Terlemezian’s story points to a cosmopolitan and integrated art world in Ottoman Istanbul, but only in brief periods of historical opportunity, suggesting how the political agendas of a state can create extraordinary circumstance in an artist’s life.","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"1 1","pages":"111-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70070713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Unknown Craftsman Made Real: Sopon Bezirdjian, Armenian-ness and Crafting the Late Ottoman Palaces","authors":"Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan","doi":"10.4000/EAC.883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/EAC.883","url":null,"abstract":"Sopon Bezirdjian (1839-1915) was an Armenian subject of the Ottoman Empire, born in Constantinople. He spent his earlier professional life designing the decorative programs for the palaces of Sultan Abdulaziz (r.1861–76), such as Beylerbeyi (1865) and Ciragan (1871), which were built under the management of the architect Serkis Balyan. This essay draws attention to legacy of Sopon, which has been virtually written out of the historiography. In contrast to recent interpretations that foreground cosmopolitanism, this essay stresses the Armenian nature of the teams that were responsible for these works of the 1860s to 70s and starts to place the role of Sopon within these teams. It also, through looking at Sopon’s archive of drawings, investigates Sopon’s engagement with his Ottoman, Armenian and the European (he moved to England around 1880) sides to his identity and shows how Armenian aspects were increasingly coming to the foreground as political strains increased. This essay puts forward the case for the highlighting the Armenian-ness behind the crafting of late Ottoman architecture and for the centrality of this working milieu to later communal transformations.","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"1 1","pages":"71-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70070642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gendered Narratives of Loss and Survival through Art Practice","authors":"Helin Anahit","doi":"10.4000/eac.935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/eac.935","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the themes of loss and survival by looking at some of her early artworks elaborating on the complex relationship of art-based research discourse with memory. She argues that the field of art practice and art writing is imperative not only for promoting cultural production, but also for offering divergent trajectories exploring the intersection of memory, history and politics in relation to affect. By drawing on her grandmother’s legacy both as a source and an inspiration, she alludes to the role of women in cultural continuity and she places female subjectivity at the centre of her argument.","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"1 1","pages":"273-291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70070852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photography and the Empty Landscape: Excavating the Ottoman Armenian Image World","authors":"D. Low","doi":"10.4000/EAC.859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/EAC.859","url":null,"abstract":"This essay outlines and contends with the problem of the absence of Armenians from Ottoman photographic history, with a distinct concern being that history’s failure to consider the provincial photography that constituted the bulk of Ottoman Armenian image production. This study takes a school photograph from Kharpert province as the point of embarkation for a consideration of the themes and purposes of provincial photography. It is particularly concerned with historical context, and investigates the late social history of Kharpert through the lives and work of the photograph’s central sitter, the writer Tlgadintsi, and its makers, the Soursourians. It considers how photographic production related to this social history and grew out of specific community needs during a time of mass migration and massacre, being a means of tying people together in the present and looking forwards with hope for the future.","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"1 1","pages":"31-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70071009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}