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A BIAA Hybrid Lecture with Postdoctoral Research Fellow Gizem Pilavcı.
This lecture revolves around the unstudied figure of Aroussiag Iskian, née Torykian, of Marsovan, in the global context of late 19th- and 20th-century displacement, transnationalism, and coloniality by offering a microhistorical analysis of her life and her agency as a well-educated Armenian woman and genocide survivor, in an attempt to restore her voice and rewrite her into history. With its extensive spatial scope, this examination of Aroussiag ventures beyond the confines of area studies and explores the dense entanglements in translocal, transimperial, and transnational connectivities in the spaces she traversed. In tracing her steps and unveiling her intersectionality that cut across different axes and landscapes, the lecture also engages with the multiple layers of Aroussiag’s neglect by the historical enterprise.
A BIAA Hybrid Lecture with Postdoctoral Research Fellow Gizem Pilavcı.
This lecture revolves around the unstudied figure of Aroussiag Iskian, née Torykian, of Marsovan, in the global context of late 19th- and 20th-century displacement, transnationalism, and coloniality by offering a microhistorical analysis of her life and her agency as a well-educated Armenian woman and genocide survivor, in an attempt to restore her voice and rewrite her into history. With its extensive spatial scope, this examination of Aroussiag ventures beyond the confines of area studies and explores the dense entanglements in translocal, transimperial, and transnational connectivities in the spaces she traversed. In tracing her steps and unveiling her intersectionality that cut across different axes and landscapes, the lecture also engages with the multiple layers of Aroussiag’s neglect by the historical enterprise.
