Prof. Nazan Maksudyan & Rober Koptaş

Title: Survivors: Children and Women as Resisting Subjects of Genocide (One Part)
Başlık: Sağkalanlar: Soykırımın Direnen Özneleri Olarak Çocuklar ve Kadınlar (Tek Bölüm)
Date: 2 Nov/Kas 2023

Recommended Readings / Önerilen Okumalar

Abrahamian, A. A., Avedis’ Story: An Armenian Boy’s Journey, C. S. Najarian (ed.), London, Gomidas Institute, 2014.
Dadrian, V. N. « Children as Victims of Genocide: The Armenian Case », Journal of Genocide Research, 2003/3, n° 5, 421–437.
Darbinyan, A. and R. Peroomian, « Children: The Most Vulnerable Victims of the Armenian Genocide », in Samuel Totten (ed.), Plight and Fate of Children During and Following Genocide, New York, Routledge, 57–84.
Derderian, Katharine. “Common fate, different experience: Gender-specific aspects of the Armenian genocide, 1915-1917.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 19.1 (2005): 1-25.
Dzarugyan, A. Çocukluğu Olmayan Adamlar (trans. by K. Z. Çelik), Istanbul, Aras Yayıncılık, 2016 [1955].
Eisen, G., Children and Play in the Holocaust: Games Among the Shadows, Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.
Ekmekçioğlu, L. (2013). ‘A Climate for Abduction, a Climate for Redemption: The Politics of Inclusion during and after the Armenian Genocide’. In Comparative Studies in Society and History 55/3, pp. 522–3.
Ekmekçioğlu, Lerna. Bir Milleti Diriltmek 1919-1933: Toplumsal Cinsiyet Ekseninde Türkiye’de Ermeniliğin Yeniden İnşası (Istanbul: Aras, 2021).
Injarabian, P., Azo the Slave Boy and His Road to Freedom, trans. from the French by E. Eaker, London, Gomidas Institute, 2015 [1980].
Maksudyan, Nazan, Orphans and Destitute Children in Late Ottoman Empire, Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 2014;
Maksudyan, Nazan, Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I, Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 2019.
Maksudyan, Nazan. “Gendered Violence against Children during the Armenian Genocide,” In ‘For Civilisation’: The First World War in the Middle East 1914 – 1923, edited by Pieter Trogh. (TIJDSBEELD, 2022), 78-83.
Maksudyan, Nazan. “Bir Avuç Leblebiyi Paylaşan Masal Kahramanları,” [Fairytale heroes sharing a fist full of chickpeas] in Elveda Antura: Bir Ermeni Yetimin Anıları [Goodbye Antoura: Memoirs of an Armenian Orphan] (Istanbul: Aras Yayıncılık, 2018), 389-398.
Maksudyan, Nazan. “Hem Ermeni Hem Yetimdik / Soykırım Tanıklıklarında Çocukluk ve Büyümek,” [We were both Armenians and Orphans: Childhood and Growing up in Genocide Testimonies] Notos 55 (Dec. 2015 – Jan. 2016): 52-58.
Maksudyan, Nazan. “The Armenian Genocide and Survival Narratives of Children”, Childhood Vulnerability Journal 1/1 (2019): 15-30.
Maksudyan, Nazan. “Üç Kuşak Üç Katliam: 1894’ten 1915’e Ermeni Çocuklar ve Yetimler,” [Three generations, three massacres: Armenian orphans from 1894 to 1915], Toplum ve Bilim [Society and Science] 132 (2015): 33-49.
Maksudyan, Nazan. « The Orphan Nation: Gendered Humanitarianism for Armenian Survivor Children in Istanbul, 1919–1922 », in Esther Möller, Katharina Stornig, Johannes Paulmann (eds.), Gendering Global Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century: Practice, Politics, and Power of Representation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 117–142.
Miller, D. E. and L. Touryan Miller, Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1993.
Panyan, K. Elveda Antura, Bir Ermeni Yetimin Anıları (trans. from the Armenian by M. Fuchs), Istanbul, Aras Yayıncılık, 2018 [1992].
Sarafian, A., « The Absorption of Armenian Women and Children into Muslim Households as a Structural Component of the Armenian Genocide », in Omer Bartov, Phyllis Mack (eds.), In God’s Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century, New York, Berghahn Books, 2001, 209–221.
Semerdjian, Elyse. “The Liberation of non-Muslim Women and Children in Turkey: Notes on the Question of the Abduction of non-Muslim Women and Children by the Turks, Retained until Today by Muslims By Zabel Essayan.” Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies 28.2 (2021): 235-248.
Semerdjian, Elyse. Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide. Stanford University Press, 2023.
Suciyan, Talin. Modern Türkiye’de Ermeniler: Soykırımsonrası Toplum, Siyaset ve Tarih (Istanbul: Aras, 2018).
Tachjian, Vahé. “Gender, nationalism, exclusion: the reintegration process of female survivors of the Armenian genocide.” Nations and nationalism 15.1 (2009): 60-80.
Tachjian, Vahé. “Mixed Marriage, Prostitution, Survival: Reintegrating Armenian Women in Post-Women Cities,” in Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman History, ed. by Nazan Maksudyan (Berghahn, 2014).
Watenpaugh, K. D., « “Are There Any Children for Sale?”: Genocide and the Transfer of Armenian Children (1915–1922) », Journal of Human Rights, 2013/3, n° 12, 283–295.