We are delighted to announce that in this round, the Hrant Dink Foundation will be offering support in the form of a travel grant to a total of 39 individuals – 28 from Turkey, 11 from Armenia – for their visits to the neighbouring country.
The panel on the ways in which literature forms a new language took place under the moderation of Karin Karakaşlı and with the participation of authors Ayfer Tunç and Kemal Varol.
In the first event of the ASULIS, with the contribution of Ebru Nihan Celkan, Melek Özman and Ahmet Sami Özbudak, how theatre and cinema can be used as a tool for combatting against discrimination was discussed.
The first roundtable meeting was held in Hrant Dink Foundation and "needs", "problems", "suggestions" and "goals" in education were discussed with participants consisting of various institutions and independent researchers.
The report covering January - April 2015 is based on the analysis of hate speech towards national, ethnic and religious identities along with content targeting LGBTI individuals and women.
ASULIS is designed as an interdisciplinary space to engage from experimental studies and research in the field of discourse studies to conduct discussions on methods to combat discrimination and discriminatory discourse.
Hrant Dink Foundation organized a new panel with the participation of Cultural Heritage Without Borders (CHwB) representatives in Eastern Europe and of the Association for the Protection of Cultural Heritage.
The Hrant Dink Foundation is organizing, as a part of its 'Revealing and Advocating the Multi-Cultural Heritage of Anatolia' project, a new panel called ‘Topographies of Memory: Exchanging Knowledge and Best Practices’.
With the contribution of Istanbul Bilgi University Children’s Studies Unit and Hayat Sende Youth Academy Association, the media-children relation and the representation of children under legal protection in the media were discussed.
As a part of the cultural heritage in Anatolia project, Hrant Dink Foundation and Houshamadyan jointly organized a series of panels and workshops on intangible cultural heritage of non-Muslim communities in Turkey.
In the 56th Venice Biennial Pavilion of Turkey was the instalment of ‘Respiro’ by Sarkis. The Golden Icon, which is one of the six signals of this instalment, was exhibited in the Anarad Hıghutyun Building.
Within the framework of the 14th Istanbul Biennial, the artworks by Vietnamese artist Nguyen Huy An were on display in the exhibition area and library of the Anarad Hıghutyun Building.