Wednesday, 28 October
Welcome, 18:15. Prof. Dr. Andreas H. Jucker, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, UZH
Public lecture, subsequent. Donald Bloxham (Edinburgh): Geopolitics, ethnopolitics, mass murder: The Ottoman Cataclysm and western Eurasia's long twentieth century of violence
Thursday, 29 October
Panel 1, 09:00-10:30. The Ottoman World War I and its historiography
Chair: Margaret Anderson (Berkeley)
Discussant: Erik J. Zürcher (Leiden)
Mustafa Aksakal (Washington D.C.): New scholarship, new directions
Nazan Maksudyan (Istanbul): New approaches of social history
Elizabeth Thompson (Charlotteville VA): Arab historiography
Panel 2, 10:50-11:30. Çanakkale 1915.
Foundational myths of Young Turks, Kemalists, Australians and neo-Ottomanists
Chair: Philip Dwyer (Newcastle NSW)
Discussant: Elizabeth Thompson (Charlotteville VA)
Erol Köroğlu (Istanbul): The triumph of Gallipoli, 1915. Uses and misuses in Turkey
Daniel Marc Segesser (Bern): Short input on myths and memories of the Galipoli War in transnational perspective.
Panel 3, 13:30-17:30 (with breaks). The Armenian genocide, the Kurds and post-genocide Turkey
Chair: Maurus Reinkowski (Basel)
a. 13:30-14:30 The Caucasian front and the Armenian relocations
Peter Holquist (Philadelphia): The impact of Russian strategy and Russian policies on the Caucasus Front
Raymond Kévorkian (Paris): La planification des deportation. Nouvelles conclusions
Discussant: Ugur Ü. Üngör (Utrecht)
b. 15:00-16:00 The anti-Armenian policy in the eastern and central provinces
Mehmet Polatel (Istanbul): Robbing and murdering Christians. Local actors, jihad and the state in the eastern provinces
Hilmar Kaiser (Phnom Penh): Between massacre and resistance: Officers, bureaucrats and Muslim notables in Angora province during the extermination of Armenians
Discussant: Yuval Ben-Bassat (Haifa)
c. 16:30-17:30 From genocide to "post-genocide"
Namık Kemal Dinç (Istanbul) (in Turkish, paper transl. in English): Sözlü tarihe göre Diyarbakır'da soykırımın toplumsal örgütlenmesinde aktörler/ Kurdish responsibility and oral history
Talin Suciyan (Munich): Another historiography for Turkey: Can the survivor speak?
Discussant: Kerem Öktem (Graz)
Roundtable 1, Public Debate, 18:15.
The Armenian genocide: New debates on Turkey, Germany, the Shoah, and the post-Ottoman Middle East
Chair: Dominik J. Schaller (Zürich)
With Hülya Adak (Istanbul), Margaret Anderson
(Berkeley); Donald Bloxham (Edinburgh); Stefan Ihrig (Jerusalem); Hans-Lukas Kieser (Zürich)
Friday, 30 October
Panel 4, 09:30-11.00.
How to deal with crimes against humanity?
Chair: Peter Holquist (Philadelphia)
Discussants: Donald Bloxham (Edinburgh), Raymond
Kévorkian (Paris)
Daniel Marc Segesser (Bern): “Delendum est Imperium Ottomanorum“: War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity and the end of the Ottoman Empire
Hülya Adak (Istanbul): Denial as a contemporary reaction to the Great Crime
Valentina Calzolari (Geneva): Armenian literary responses to Metz Yeghern
Panel 5, 11:30-13:00. Famine in Greater Syria, precarity in Palestine, “Israel's first foundation”
Chair: Mustafa Aksakal (Washington D.C.)
Discussant: Maurus Reinkowski (Basel)
Yuval Ben Bassat (Haifa): Enciphered Ottoman wartime correspondence on Palestine: A challenge to the common national narratives?
Dotan Halevy (New York): A tale of two (evacuated) cities: Gaza and Jaffa in March 1917
Salim Tamari (Ramallah): The Ottoman administration in Syria and the Arab intelligentsia (1915-1917)
Panel 6, 14:30-16:45 (with short break). Engaged in a rightist revolution? Political biographies and visions of the future among members of the Committee Union and Progress
Chair: Kerem Öktem (Graz)
Discussant: Mustafa Aksakal (Washington D.C.)
Ozan Ozavcı (Paris): Mehmet Djavid Bey: A Liberal Unionist?
Uğur Ü. Üngör (Amsterdam): Şükrü Kaya
Hans-Lukas Kieser (Zürich): Talat Pasha and Germany
Erik J. Zürcher (Leiden): The parallel lifes of Kazim Ozalp, Şükrü Kaya and Abdulhalik Renda
Roundtable 2, Public Debate, 17:15. World War I and the end of the Ottomans. Book discussion
Chair: Nada Boškovska (Zürich)
With Margaret L. Anderson (Berkeley); Erik J. Zürcher (Leiden); Mustafa Aksakal (Washington D.C.); Kerem Öktem (Graz, editor), Maurus Reinkowski (Basel, editor)
Saturday, 31 October
Panel 7, 09:30-11:30. An island of resistance? Dersim between the Armenian genocide and the Tertele of 1937-38
Chair and discussant: Uğur Ü. Üngör (Amsterdam)
Kazım and Nezahat Gündoğan (Istanbul): Screening of the documentary film Manastırın Çocukları / Children of
the Monastery (75 min.)
Roundtable 3, Public Debate, 12:30-14:00. Turkey in the shadow of 1915: A year of contested remembering
Chair: Kerem Öktem (Graz)
With Ayşe Gül Altınay (Istanbul); Seyhan Bayraktar (San Francisco); Sossie Kasbarian (Lancaster)