Professor Bilal will first provide an overall introduction to Feminism in Armenian: An Interpretive Anthology and Digital Archive, a collaborative project with Lerna Ekmekçioğlu (MIT) that aims to end the ever-present invisibility of activist women in Armenian historiography and collective memory. She will then focus on one of the authors featured in this project, namely Yelbis Gesaratsian (1830 - ?) editor of the first Armenian women’s journal in the Ottoman Empire. Drawing on Gesaratsian's writings, Professor Bilal will discuss the interrelatedness of discourses on gender, sexuality, body, emotion, culture, history, nation, modernity, land, and music in the nineteenth-century Armenian intellectual narratives.
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Hosted by: Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies
In conjunction with: April 24 Fund, Center for Global Studies, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, European Union Center, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Program in Women and Gender in Global Perspectives, School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Spurlock Museum
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