Two panels, "Walking for Historical, Societal, City justice " and "Waking in between cities and the fields", will be organised in the frames of the topic, walking as a city experience, different meanings and possibilities of it. After the event, the participants will be invited to walks on May 27th. Presenters from architecture, sociology, art, anthropology and other disciplines will talk about their own walking experiences and will invite participants to walk along.
"Understanding the city and Walking in the city for Justice" event is organised by Spatial Justice Center, the host organisation of Hrant Dink Foundation fellow at Turkey-Armenia Fellowship Scheme, Arpenik Atabekyan, Cins Adımlar and Karakutu NGO, on May 24th, Wednesday, at Hrant Dink Foundation.
Programme Agenda:
Panel | May 24th
17:00 - 18:30 Walking for historical, societal, city justice.
Walking for the spatial justice - Yaşar Adnan Adanalı, Spatial Justice Center
Walking in gendered spaces as a woman - Arpenik Atabekyan, fellow at Turkey-Armenia Fellowship Scheme
Walking in gendered memory spaces - Sema Semih, Cins Adımlar
Walking to listen to unspoken stories - Sevinç Coşkun, Karakutu
19:00 - 20:00 Waking in between cities and the fields
Walking between two seas - Serkan Taycan
Walk in order to understand the nature of the city and the city of the nature - Sinan Erensü, Spatial Justice Center
Walking in Istanbul 2023 - Sinan Logie, Spatial Justice Center
Walks* | 27th May
Alternative 1: Gendered Spaces in Karaköy - Guide : Arpenik Atabekyan
Alternative 2: Gender and Memory - Guide : Cins Adımlar
*Walks are open only to panel participants.
The panels will be held in English and Turkish. Simultaneous interpretation will be available at the panel.
Arpenik Atabekyan currently continues her research at Center for Spatial Justice – Beyond Istanbul as a fellow of Turkey-Armenia Fellowship Scheme and her research is focused on mapping of gendered spaces in Karaköy, Istanbul.
Arpenik Atabekyan was born in Yerevan, in 1989. She graduated from Yerevan State University, Department of Oriental Studies, Chair of Turkish Studies (B.A.). In 2011 she received DAAD (Der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst e. V.) and Humboldt University academic excellence scholarship and studied Social Sciences in German-Turkish MA program (GeT MA), a joint programme between Middle East Technical University (Ankara) and Humboldt University (Berlin). She worked at the Centre of Oriental Studies in Berlin (ZMO), Berlin Institute of Social Sciences (WZB). Arpenik participated in a number of international conferences (INALCO Institute, conference “Choosing one’s language”, 2013, Paris, France; International Conference on Language, Literature & Community 2015, Bhubaneshwar, India, “Focus Caucasia 2.0 Narrating, Imagining and Crafting ‘Modernities’ in the Caucasus”, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena). Arpenik’s academic interests are modern Turkish literature, literary sociology, urban sociology, social anthropology, feminism in Turkey and Armenia.
Currently, Arpenik is enrolled in PhD programme at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena. The topic of her dissertation is “Mapping women’s exclusion: the private, the public and the production of gendered spaces in urban Yerevan”.
The Hrant Dink Foundation has established the Turkey-Armenia Fellowship Scheme in 2014 with a view to promote cross-border affiliation and cooperation in areas where further exchange of expertise and lasting cooperation is much needed, such as academia, civil society, media, culture and arts, language-learning and law. 15 fellows from Armenia and Turkey are now living and following a special program at a host organisation in the neighbouring country.
This activity takes place within the framework of the programme
Support to the Armenia-Turkey Normalisation Process: Stage II
funded by the European Union.
