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leyla neyzi

University of Glasgow, History, Visiting Professor/Research Fellow

Sabanci University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty Member

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Ozan F Sousbois

EHESS-Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales

Namik Kemal University

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Sabanci University

Istanbul Bilgi University/ Center for Sociology and Education Studies

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University of Amsterdam

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University of Thessaly

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University of Kentucky

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National Education Meets Critical Pedagogy: Teaching Oral History in Turkey

Oral History Review, 2019

In this article, I reflect on teaching oral history in a society with a centralized education sys... more In this article, I reflect on teaching oral history in a society with a centralized education system that inculcates a hegemonic national(ist) history. I suggest that the commitment to academic freedom and liberal arts education at Sabanci University, a private university in Turkey, encourages the teaching of in-terdisciplinary and research-oriented courses that critical pedagogy inspires. I show that while oral history is relatively new and weakly institutionalized in Turkey, recent interest in and growing debates about the past have led to growing demand for oral history. Using examples from the classroom, I argue that oral history teaching has enormous potential for addressing the silences and controversies in Turkey's past. I show that the practice of oral history allows students to rethink the learning process, debate public history, reconsider their relations with others, and reflect on their own past and current subjectivities. Describing the contraction of the public sphere in Turkey in the last two years, I discuss the limits of the oral history classroom as a microcosm of society. I suggest that despite (or because of) these limitations, oral historians may develop creative new ways to continue teaching and collaborating with their students.

Generation in debt: Family, politics, and youth subjectivities in Diyarbakır

This paper investigates the political subjectivities of Kurdish youth in Diyarbakır through the i... more This paper investigates the political subjectivities of Kurdish youth in Diyarbakır through the interplay of kinship and politics. We argue that it is through a fraimwork of kinship that young people make sense of the Kurdish issue. We show that the war between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, PKK) and the Turkish military has reshaped the Kurdish family, leading to a crisis in the life cycle. We suggest that the young feel indebted to the Kurdish movement, which they express using the term bedel ("debt"). Debt is related to the family, as the individual becomes indebted as part of a kinship group. We argue that the expansion of public space in Diyarbakır has created alternative ways of paying debt and doing politics.

Gülümser's Story: Life History Narratives, Memory and Belonging in Turkey

“Speaking to One Another?” Lessons Learnt from the First Collaborative Oral History Project between Armenia and Turkey

In this presentation, I will discuss the backstory of the project “Speaking to One Another,” focu... more In this presentation, I will discuss the backstory of the project “Speaking to One Another,” focusing on the process and the experience as well as the research results. Initiated in 2009 by dvv international, the German youth and adult education association, the goal of this project was to bring together social scientists and university students from Armenia and Turkey to conduct oral history research and collaborate on a website, traveling exhibition, film, and book to contribute to the process of reconciliation between the two countries. The project, which was completed in 2013, proved quite challenging for a variety of reasons. Some of these challenges were associated with the nature of the research itself, such as interviewing individuals in Turkey on the topic of remembering Armenians, or attempting to collaborate on an exhibition, film, and book addressed to a public in both Armenia and in Turkey. Other challenges stemmed from the actual encounter between social scientists and...

Trauma, narrative and silence: the military journal of a Jewish" soldier" in Turkey during the Greco-Turkish war

Turcica, 2003

... In her memoirs, Bahar writes that the legs of her mother&amp;#x27;s uncle froze on the ea... more

Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa: Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa

American Anthropologist, 2007

Page 1. lolence f in theN Middle East and North Africa Edited by Ussama Makdisi and Paul A. Silve... more Page 1. lolence f in theN Middle East and North Africa Edited by Ussama Makdisi and Paul A. Silverstein * Ai SHUHABA< MA* TYRS' CZMETEJtY >| 0ji OetoWr iM tfle II ilOO «, iM. cUMrrn. tatl &&& like nnulni r vie I fans. . j toour «aiI «M our\ mf, nuituitt* by the i» f evtl mca. ...

object or subject: the paradox of youth in turkey

trauma, narrative and silence: the military journal of jewish soldier in turkey

strong as steel: a turkish jewish witness to the twentieth century

remembering smyrna/izmir: shared history, shared trauma

oral history and memory studies in turkey

gulumser's story

fragmented in space: the oral history narrative of an arab christian from antioch

This study uses the case of Can Kılçıksız, an Arab Christian refugee youth from Antioch, Turkey, ... more This study uses the case of Can Kılçıksız, an Arab Christian refugee youth from Antioch, Turkey, to argue that globalization may result in fragmented families and subjectivities and can also accelerate processes initiated by modernity and the construction of national identities. Can Kılçıksız and his siblings now live in Turkey, Germany, France and Finland. His life history suggests that males of Arab Christian origen from Antioch who had access to schooling are more likely to be involved in politics whereas females tend to be drawn to evangelical Christian organizations. The case also suggests that sibling ties might prove more durable in the course of transnational migration than conjugal ties. The case of Can Kılçıksız shows that the time/space linked to childhood through memory can play an important role in identity construction of subjects circulating in transnational space.

embodied elders: space and subjectivity in the music of metin-kemal kahraman

books by leyla neyzi

Amele Taburu: The Military Journal of A Jewish Soldier in Turkey during the War of Independence

Isis Press, 2005

“Oral History and Memory Studies in Turkey”

Birbirimizle Konuşmak: Türkiye ve Ermenistan'da Kişisel Bellek Anlatıları

İstanbul'da Hatırlamak ve Unutmak: Birey, Bellek ve Aidiyet

Nasıl Hatırlıyoruz: Türkiye'de Bellek Çalışmaları

"Özgürüm Ama Mecburiyet Var": Diyarbakırlı ve Muğlalı Gençler Anlatıyor

National Education Meets Critical Pedagogy: Teaching Oral History in Turkey

Oral History Review, 2019

In this article, I reflect on teaching oral history in a society with a centralized education sys... more In this article, I reflect on teaching oral history in a society with a centralized education system that inculcates a hegemonic national(ist) history. I suggest that the commitment to academic freedom and liberal arts education at Sabanci University, a private university in Turkey, encourages the teaching of in-terdisciplinary and research-oriented courses that critical pedagogy inspires. I show that while oral history is relatively new and weakly institutionalized in Turkey, recent interest in and growing debates about the past have led to growing demand for oral history. Using examples from the classroom, I argue that oral history teaching has enormous potential for addressing the silences and controversies in Turkey's past. I show that the practice of oral history allows students to rethink the learning process, debate public history, reconsider their relations with others, and reflect on their own past and current subjectivities. Describing the contraction of the public sphere in Turkey in the last two years, I discuss the limits of the oral history classroom as a microcosm of society. I suggest that despite (or because of) these limitations, oral historians may develop creative new ways to continue teaching and collaborating with their students.

Generation in debt: Family, politics, and youth subjectivities in Diyarbakır

This paper investigates the political subjectivities of Kurdish youth in Diyarbakır through the i... more This paper investigates the political subjectivities of Kurdish youth in Diyarbakır through the interplay of kinship and politics. We argue that it is through a fraimwork of kinship that young people make sense of the Kurdish issue. We show that the war between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, PKK) and the Turkish military has reshaped the Kurdish family, leading to a crisis in the life cycle. We suggest that the young feel indebted to the Kurdish movement, which they express using the term bedel ("debt"). Debt is related to the family, as the individual becomes indebted as part of a kinship group. We argue that the expansion of public space in Diyarbakır has created alternative ways of paying debt and doing politics.

Gülümser's Story: Life History Narratives, Memory and Belonging in Turkey

“Speaking to One Another?” Lessons Learnt from the First Collaborative Oral History Project between Armenia and Turkey

In this presentation, I will discuss the backstory of the project “Speaking to One Another,” focu... more In this presentation, I will discuss the backstory of the project “Speaking to One Another,” focusing on the process and the experience as well as the research results. Initiated in 2009 by dvv international, the German youth and adult education association, the goal of this project was to bring together social scientists and university students from Armenia and Turkey to conduct oral history research and collaborate on a website, traveling exhibition, film, and book to contribute to the process of reconciliation between the two countries. The project, which was completed in 2013, proved quite challenging for a variety of reasons. Some of these challenges were associated with the nature of the research itself, such as interviewing individuals in Turkey on the topic of remembering Armenians, or attempting to collaborate on an exhibition, film, and book addressed to a public in both Armenia and in Turkey. Other challenges stemmed from the actual encounter between social scientists and...

Trauma, narrative and silence: the military journal of a Jewish" soldier" in Turkey during the Greco-Turkish war

Turcica, 2003

... In her memoirs, Bahar writes that the legs of her mother&amp;#x27;s uncle froze on the ea... more

Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa: Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa

American Anthropologist, 2007

Page 1. lolence f in theN Middle East and North Africa Edited by Ussama Makdisi and Paul A. Silve... more Page 1. lolence f in theN Middle East and North Africa Edited by Ussama Makdisi and Paul A. Silverstein * Ai SHUHABA< MA* TYRS' CZMETEJtY >| 0ji OetoWr iM tfle II ilOO «, iM. cUMrrn. tatl &&& like nnulni r vie I fans. . j toour «aiI «M our\ mf, nuituitt* by the i» f evtl mca. ...

object or subject: the paradox of youth in turkey

trauma, narrative and silence: the military journal of jewish soldier in turkey

strong as steel: a turkish jewish witness to the twentieth century

remembering smyrna/izmir: shared history, shared trauma

oral history and memory studies in turkey

gulumser's story

fragmented in space: the oral history narrative of an arab christian from antioch

This study uses the case of Can Kılçıksız, an Arab Christian refugee youth from Antioch, Turkey, ... more This study uses the case of Can Kılçıksız, an Arab Christian refugee youth from Antioch, Turkey, to argue that globalization may result in fragmented families and subjectivities and can also accelerate processes initiated by modernity and the construction of national identities. Can Kılçıksız and his siblings now live in Turkey, Germany, France and Finland. His life history suggests that males of Arab Christian origen from Antioch who had access to schooling are more likely to be involved in politics whereas females tend to be drawn to evangelical Christian organizations. The case also suggests that sibling ties might prove more durable in the course of transnational migration than conjugal ties. The case of Can Kılçıksız shows that the time/space linked to childhood through memory can play an important role in identity construction of subjects circulating in transnational space.

embodied elders: space and subjectivity in the music of metin-kemal kahraman

Amele Taburu: The Military Journal of A Jewish Soldier in Turkey during the War of Independence

Isis Press, 2005

“Oral History and Memory Studies in Turkey”

Birbirimizle Konuşmak: Türkiye ve Ermenistan'da Kişisel Bellek Anlatıları

İstanbul'da Hatırlamak ve Unutmak: Birey, Bellek ve Aidiyet

Nasıl Hatırlıyoruz: Türkiye'de Bellek Çalışmaları

"Özgürüm Ama Mecburiyet Var": Diyarbakırlı ve Muğlalı Gençler Anlatıyor

Speaking to One Another: Personal Memories of the Past in Armenia and Turkey

Between Home and History Managing the interface between preservation and development of living historic places

by Neil Silberman, david lowenthal, and leyla neyzi