Since 2000, The Workshop on Armenian-Turkish Scholarship has been meeting regularly to bring together scholars to discuss the causes, circumstances and consequences of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The workshops have covered a wide range of topics, including the Armenians and the end of the Ottoman Empire; Vectors of Violence: War, Revolution and Genocide; Ideologies of Revolution, Nation and Empire: Political Ideas, Parties and Practices at the end of the Ottoman Empire; Ethnic Tensions and Violence at the end of the Ottoman Empire and Critical Approaches to the Armenian Genocide: History, Politics and Aesthetics.

The Armenian Genocide, as the most significant instance of mass violence against civilians during World War I, forms a major fault line in European civilisation. The workshop will address why this instance of mass violence has not played a more prominent role as a means of analyzing repertoires of violence in Europe throughout the twentieth century. In the workshop, we hope to address the silencing of the Armenian Genocide in the European imaginary, as well as exploring instances of denial and justifications of violence.

Topics to be covered by the workshop include:

- new sources and historiographies on the Armenian Genocide, new methods of approaching the Armenian Genocide, discourse analysis,
- the Armenian Genocide in European literature, modernism/postmodernism and the confrontation of literature with genocide, the politics of representation and reception, canon-formation, translation, bilingual authors, Armenian writers writing in European languages,
- significance of memory studies and the Armenian Genocide,
- migration, diaspora and the Armenian Genocide,
- contemporary repertoires of violence and the Armenian genocide,
- new approaches to performance studies, theater, documentary and film,
- the significance of comparative frameworks between the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust (as well as the shortcomings of such comparative analyses),
- gender and sexuality, including representations of femininity and masculinity in literary texts (among others), post-genocide feminisms, trans and queer Armenian subjectivities.

Funding will be available to cover the travel expenses and accommodation of the participants.

Please send abstracts (max. 300 words), short biographical information (max. 150 words), your institutional affiliation, address, email and telephone number by January 30, 2017 to hadak@sabanciuniv.edu, gocek@umich.edu & knocke@lepsiushaus-potsdam.de