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WOMEN MOBILIZING MEMORY
Susan Meiselas, Family members wear the photographs of Peshmerga martyrs, Saiwan Hill cemetery, Northern Iraq, December 1991, from the series Kurdistan, Courtesy of the artist.
Women Mobilizing Memory
EDITED BY
Aye Gl Altnay and Mara Jos Contreras, Marianne Hirsch, Jean Howard, Banu Karaca, and Alisa Solomon
Columbia University Press
New York
Columbia University Press gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions to this book provided by the Leonard Hastings Schoff Publication Fund, University Seminars, Sarah Cole, the Center for the Study of Social Difference Publication Fund, and the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Altnay, Aye Gl, 1971- editor.
Title: Women mobilizing memory / edited by Aye Gl Altnay [and five others].
Description: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018057995 (print) | LCCN 2019001271 (e-book) | ISBN 9780231549974 (e-book) | ISBN 9780231191845 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231191852 (paperback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Feminism. | WomenViolence against. | WomenCrimes against. | Collective memory.
Classification: LCC HQ1155 (e-book) | LCC HQ1155 .W673 2019 (print) | DDC 305.42dc23
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Cover design: Milenda Nan Ok Lee
Cover image: Detail of Freundschaft (installation, 2011).
Silvina Der-Meguerditchian. Photo: Vivi Abelson.
Contents
Marianne Hirsch
Katherine Hite and Marita Sturken
Andreas Huyssen
Carol Becker
Brge Abiral, Aye Gl Altnay, Dilara alkan, and Armanc Yldz
Nancy Kricorian
Diana Taylor
Meltem Ahska
Mara Jos Contreras Lorenzini
Marcela A. Fuentes
Andrea Crow and Alyssa Greene
Dilara alkan
Deva Woodly
Laura Wexler
Nicole Gervasio
Deborah Willis
Banu Karaca
Silvina Der-Meguerditchian and Marianne Hirsch
Susan Meiselas and In nol
Jean E. Howard
Leticia Robles-Moreno
Nomie Ndiaye
Alisa Solomon
Milena Grass Kleiner
Sibel Irzk
Hlya Adak
Mara Soledad Falabella Luco
A book that takes shape over a number of years across three continents incurs many debts. As editors, we are grateful to the many people and institutions who have helped provide the conditions that made this book possible. First, we wish to thank Women Creating Change at Columbia Universitys Center for the Study of Social Difference, which hosted our working group and fostered a dynamic transnational feminist collaboration. Vina Tran, Laura Ciolkowski, and Terence Roethlein provided invaluable administrative support along the way.
Safwan Masri, Columbias executive vice president for global centers and global development, supported the Women Mobilizing Memory project from its inception and introduced us to Karen Poniatchik, director of the Columbia Global Center, Santiago, Chile, and to pek Cem Taha, director of the Columbia Global Center, Istanbul, Turkey. Both were wonderful hosts when our working groups convened at their Centers in 2013 and 2014. Associate Directors Rana Zincir Celal and Gisele Feldman, and their staff, were extraordinary in their efforts to make every aspect of our complicated visits rich and meaningful.
The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University, its director, Diana Taylor, and associate director Marcial Godoy, were invaluable partners in conceiving and realizing our project. Together, we expanded our Women Mobilizing Memory working group at the Hemi Encuentro in Montreal, Canada in 2014. Sabanc University Gender and Womens Studies Center (SU Gender, formerly Gender Forum) was a creative partner and host of our 2014 workshop and public panel in Istanbul, and Sabanc University provided generous support for both the 2014 (Istanbul) and 2015 (New York) workshops. We thank the Depo Gallery in Istanbul, the Kunstgalerie Exnergasse in Vienna, and the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia for hosting art exhibits emerging from our work, on Mobilizing Memory: Women Witnessing, and Women Mobilizing Memory: Collaboration and Co-Resistance, our wonderful curators In nol, Aye Gl Altnay, and Katherine Cohn, as well as the extraordinary international group of artists who contributed their work.
This project owes a great deal to discussions at Columbias University Seminar on Cultural Memory. We are grateful to the University Seminars for supporting our New York conference and to its Leonard Hastings Schoff publication fund for its financial assistance.
We remain grateful to President Lee Bollinger, who has generously sustained Women Creating Change and this project from its inception, and to Jean Magnano Bollinger, who joined our events. Ann Kaplan saw the promise of Women Creating Change and has helped us realize our vision. Carol Becker, Dean of the School of the Arts, has been both a member of our group and a creative partner in our work. We thank her and Dean of Humanities Sarah Cole, for invaluable support. The Blinken European Institute at Columbia helped support our meeting in Turkey.
Teresa Anativia Lopez was the most gentle guide through the sites of Chiles violent past. She inspired those who were there to witness her openness and courage to continue working together for a better future. Andrea Crow was both a member of our group and served as our extremely capable graduate and editorial assistant on the project. Mary Childers provided crucial editorial support at key moments. Aye Yksel, Olcay zer, and Armanc Yldz of SU Gender helped us organize the workshop, public panel, and memory walk in Istanbul. Women Mobilizing Memory working group members Rstem Ertu Altnay, Henry Castillo, Zeynep Gambetti, Marcial Godoy, Ximena Goecke, zlem Kaya, Leo Spitzer, and Kate Trebuss as well as participants and audiences in our conferences and roundtables in Santiago, Istanbul, and New York contributed creatively to the evolution of the project and we thank them all.
Finally, we wish to thank Columbia University Press and its director, Jennifer Crewe, for supporting us so magnificently through the publication process, and to the two anonymous readers secured by the press who gave us crucial and incisive feedback as we were bringing the project to completion.
The image on the cover of this volume was generously provided by artist and contributor Silvina Der-Meguerditchian. Drawn from her 2013 installation
