Ekmekçioğlu Delivers 2019 Campagna-Kerven Lecture
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu, McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, delivered the 24td annual Campagna-Kerven Lecture on Modern Turkey on April 3, 2019. The lecture was hosted by the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations and the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.
Ekmekçioğlu, who specializes on Turkish and Armenian lands in the 19th and 20th centuries, delivered a lecture entitled “Survivors into Minorities: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey.”
Ekmekçioğlu’s work focuses on minority-majority relationships and the ways in which gendered analytical lenses help us better understand coexistence and conflict, including genocide and post-genocide. She is also interested in the history of non-Western feminisms, including Armenian, Turkish, Kurdish, Jewish, and Greek women’s movements.
The Campagna-Kerven Lecture series was launched by Madame Suzanne Campagna to provide a forum for informed discussion and debate about modern Turkey, and particularly to inspire students to learn about the country. The multidisciplinary series was inaugurated in 1996 and it features scholars, artists and public intellectuals. The annual lectures have addressed and will continue to address a rich variety of themes on modern Turkish society, economy, culture and politics. Campagna’s father, Mehmet Nahid Kerven, who died in 1974, was one of the famed “Young Turks.”