You are invited to Armen T. Marsoobian’s public talk entitled “Presencing an Absence: Accountability and Memory in the Aftermath of 1915” on Tuesday, 30 July at the Hrant Dink Foundation.

Marsoobian will talk about a memory project based on an historic archive of Ottoman-era photographs, glass negatives, drawings, and original documents preserved by the Dildilian family, many members of which were professional photographers. The focus of the talk will be the objectives, successes and failures of this project which employs a variety of media to “to repair a cultural loss”.

The event will be broadcasted live on Facebook.

Date: 30 July 2019, Tuesday
Time: 18.30
Venue: Hrant Dink Foundation, Havak Hall

There will be simultaneous translation into Turkish during the event.
The event will be broadcasted live on Facebook.

Armen T. Marsoobian is the Chair of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University and editor of the journal Metaphilosophy. He publishes in American Philosophy, aesthetics, moral philosophy, genocide studies, and memory studies, co-editing seven books, most recently, Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Memory. His award-winning book, Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia, is based upon extensive research about his family. A Turkish edition, Yitik Bir Yurdun Kırıntıları: Ermenistan’ı Hatırlamak was recently published. A companion book of photographs, Dildilyan Kardeşler – Kayıp Bir Ermeni Evin Hatıraları: Anadolu’da Ermeni Bir Ailenin Fotoğrafları ve Öyküsü, 1888-1923, appeared in 2015. An expanded version of this book was published in 2017, Reimagining a Lost Armenian Home: The Dildilian Photography Collection. Exhibitions based on the collection were mounted in Turkey, Armenia, Great Britain, and the United States.