University of Michigan
2015 Tisch Hall
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
(734) 764-8503 (F)
Areas of Specialization
Greek-Turkish political and cultural interactions
1923 Greek-Turkish compulsory population exchange
Dissertation/Thesis working title and topic
"Fragments of Homeland, Genres of Return: Geopoetics of Rupture, Repertoire, and Collective Memory in 1923 Greek-Turkish Population Exchange”My dissertation examines the role of cultural products in bringing tragedies such as forced migration to the attention of the public. How are these works produced? Circulated? Received? I argue that cultural products contributed to the meaning-making process of this event (processing repertoires) at both individual and collective levels. In order to study how collective memory repertoires are processed, I propose an interdisciplinary cultural analysis of what I call the geopoetics of rupture.
Asli Igsiz
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Michigan
Program in Comparative Literature
Degrees
M.A. 1999 University of Michigan (Near Eastern Studies)
M.A. 1996 Hacettepe University (French Literature)
B.A. 1993 Bogazici (Bosphorus) University (Foreign Language Education)
Principal Presentations and Publications
“Cultural Resistance and Geographic Kinship in Framing Narratives of the Greek Turkish Population Exchange.” Politics of Public Memory in Turkey. Ed. Esra Özyürek. Syracuse University Press, forthcoming.
“Memleket, Yurt ve Coğrafi Kardeşlik: Arşivci Kültür Politikalari” (Homeland, Motherland and Geographic Kinship: Archivist Cultural Politics). Türkiye’de Toplumsal Tarih ve Bellek (Social History and Memory in Turkey). Ed. Esra Özyürek. İletişim, 2001.