Obstructed mourning, resistant memory: Armenian presences in Turkish and Armenian memories, round table by Nazli Temir-Beylerian

As part of Inalco's Armenological Encounters from May 21 to June 6, 2025. An exceptional cycle of conferences, workshops and round tables on Armenian studies, for specialists, students and the general public. This event is organized jointly by Inalco's Armenian Studies Section and the Société des Études Arméniennes.
Photos portraits d'arméniens avec des roses rouges
Deuil entravé, mémoire résistante : présences arméniennes dans les mémoires turques et arméniennes © DR‎

This round table proposes to cross the approaches of several specialists to offer a multidisciplinary reading of the processes of memory and mourning among the Armenians of Turkey, confronted with a history marked by erasure, silence and survival.

How can a collective memory be constructed when access to the past is fragmented, denied or instrumentalized? Through different perspectives - historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientist - we will explore the forms taken by the transmission of memory in this particular context: between discreet family narratives, cultural initiatives, memorial claims and reparation dynamics. We will also question the way in which the work of mourning, whether intimate or collective, unfolds in the face of legacies of violence and invisibilization.

With:

  • Duygu TAŞALP, research fellow, post-doctoral fellow, UCLouvain /FNRS, Le fantôme arménien dans la mémoire des immigrés turcs de Belgique et de France ;
  • Özgür Sevgi GÖRAL, research associate at CETOBAC, Gerda Henkel Foundation research fellow, The opening and closing of a memorial scene in the public sphere: Commemorating the Armenian genocide in Istanbul ;
  • Nazlı Temir BEYLERYAN, lecturer at Inalco, Les différents régimes mémoriels dans une société post-génocidaire: du génocide au mémoricide.
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