Time and Trauma: Memory in Global Perspective

Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought hosts a second panel discussion in Istanbul, this one hosted at Studio-X Istanbul.
These conversations bring together scholars in the social sciences and humanities, neuroscientists and psychologists, and curators of historical and memorial museums to explore the relation between individual and collective remembering and the politics of national and transnational memory in the world today.

Turkish-English simultaneous translation will be provided.

Panelists
Selçuk Esenbel | Historian, Boğaziçi University, on peasant rebellion in 19th century Japan
Jie-hyun Lim | Historian, Sogan University, on Korean and Polish diasporic memory
Osman Köker | Birzamanlar Publishing, on Armenian sites of memory

Discussants
Rashid Khalidi| Historian, Columbia University
Carol Gluck | Historian, Columbia University
Minoru Iwasaki | Philosopher, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Edhem Eldem | Historian, Boğaziçi University

Moderators
Carol Gluck | Historian, Columbia University
Denis Peschanski | Historian, CNRS, Université Paris I

This event is kindly supported by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Turkey.