Transnational resistance and solidarity with Turkish artists and intellectuals (since 1980)

CERMOM is pleased to invite you to the study day "Resistances et solidarités transnationales avec les artistes et intellectuel-les de Turquie (depuis 1980)" on Friday March 20, 2026.
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Gülsün Karamustafa, Pencere (Fenêtre), 1980, technique mixte sur papier © Salt Research, Archives Gülsün Karamustafa, avec l’aimable autorisation du BüroSarıgedik et de l’artiste‎

Program

9:00am - 9:30am: Welcome of participants and coffee

9:30am - 9:40am: Introduction to the study day by Noémie Cadeau, Althéa Karadağ and Jeanne Léna

Session 1 - Contemporary social movements and strategies of resistance

9:40 am - Duygu Öztin (Dokuz Eylül University), "Female voices and strategies of (self-)censorship in contemporary Turkey"

10am - Hande Gülen (University of Lille, EHESS), "Social movements in Turkey since 2015 : entre survie et solidarité"

10:20am - Solène Poyraz (EHESS), "Academics and journalists targeted by power in Turkey: la contrainte politique jusqu'dans les rêves"

10h40 - Karolin Tuncel (University of Oxford), "Transnational Political Agency in Turkey's New Emigration Wave"

11h - Discussion moderated by Sümbül Kaya

11h20 - 11h40 : Coffee break

Session 2 - Resistances from Turkey via transnational space since the 1980s

<11h40 - Bahar Kimyongür (independent researcher), "History of political migration from Turkey to Belgium"

12h - Jeanne Léna and Sidal Sönmez (INALCO), "Les "prisonniers d'opinion" en Turquie dans les années 1980 d'après Amnesty International"

12h20 - Thowhidul Islam (Chittagong University), "The Kurdish Question beyond Borders: Transnational Resistance Networks Linking Turkey, Iraq, and Iran"

12:40 - Discussion moderated by Nora Şeni

13:00 - 14:30: Lunch break (buffet and coffee)

Session 3 - Resisting in art : strategies, resistances and autonomies

2:30pm - Opening lecture by Süreyyya Evren (Arter Istanbul), "In Praise of Self - Censorship: Visibility, Consensus, and the Erosion of Artistic Autonomy", presented by Timour Muhidine

3pm - Alper Bakım (Sorbonne University), "Yüksel Arslan : art, trial and exile in a transnational configuration"

3:20pm - Perin Emel Yavuz (EHESS),"From art's counter-spaces to prison: Anadolu Kültür and the dissemination of counter-narratives in authoritarian Turkey (2002-2022)"

3:40pm - Zeynep Uğur (Université Aix - Marseille, EHESS),"Between Istanbul and Berlin: transnational circulations and reconfigurations of forms of resistance in the theater of Turkey (1980-2025)"

4:00 pm - Discussion moderated by Althéa Karadağ

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm : Coffee break

Session 4 - Internationalizing Turkish letters

16h20 - Zehra Penez (University of Toulouse),"Circulations transnationales et recompositions du champ littéraire turc (1980-2002)"

16h40 - Merve Fırat (ODTÜ), "Literature as a Scene of Dissensus: Mehmed Uzun and Political Subjectification in Exile"

17h - Yelda Bahtiyar (INALCO), "Roni Margulies, un écrivain juif entre engagement politique et expérience diasporique"

17h20 - Discussion moderated by Timour Muhidine

17h40 - 18h : Conclusion of the study day

 

Organizing committee:

  • Noémie Cadeau - CERMOM, INALCO and ECLLA, Université Jean Monnet
  • Althéa Karadağ - CERMOM, INALCO

  • Jeanne Léna - CERMOM, INALCO

     

Scientific committee:

  • Yohanan Benhaim - IFEA
  • Lucie Drechselová - CETOBAC, EHESS
  • Sümbül Kaya - EVS, Université de Lyon
  • Élise Massicard - CERI, Science Po
  • Timour Muhidine - CERMOM, INALCO
  • Alexandre Toumarkine - CERMOM, INALCO