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All researchers, whether affiliated with a university or not, are eligible to apply for a call by the Hrant Dink Foundation for history and memory research. The deadline for submissions is January 10, 2014, and the selection will be announced in March, 2014.
This project is supported by the Hrant Dink Foundation History and Memory Research Fund which was created with the aim of promoting and supporting research geared toward revealing scrupulous acts of conscience during the events of 1915, finding people who acted as role models during that era and thus reflecting a facet of history that has not been adequately researched. It includes research on memory and the relationship between memory and history. In addition to its initial scope, the fund will also support research on the traces of the events of 1915 and their memory on subsequent generations and the different ways of remembering. The Fund was created with the assistance of Dr. Alper Öktem in 2010 and was initially called the Fund for the Support of Historical Research.Up to 4,000 Euros will be allotted to a project which includes history and memory research on how different peoples and groups have responded to 1915 with reference to such notions as responsibility, conscience and justice. Questions that the research will address include but is not limited to the following:
How have different people or groups responded to 1915 with reference to such notions as responsibility, conscience and justice?
Who has refused to participate in the orders and acts of violence, elimination and plunder aimed against Armenians and Armenian entities? What have been the consequences of such refusal?
How have the human, social, economic and political dimensions of 1915 effected subsequent generations? How do these transnational traces reverbate today?
How does the current generation relate to the perpetrators, witnesses and dissidents of 1915?
How have the axes of class, geographical location, ethnic/religious/sectarian belonging and gender shaped the memory of 1915?
How are the events of 1915 reflected in literature, visual arts, cinema and theatre? How do the representations of 1915 in literary, visual, cinema and theater works converge with / divert from the dominant historiography and memory of 1915?
How is the relationship between historical events and the contemporary world expressed in different localities?
What kind of research has already been conducted on responsibility, conscience and justice in relation to the eradication of Armenians in Anatolia and to the events of 1915? What is the impact of such research on a macro/micr
The objective of the Fund is to make public hidden acts of conscience and humanity throughout the history of Turkey, especially with regard to 1915; to enable research on the transgenerational effects of 1915, particularly with reference to such notions as responsibility, conscience and justice; to encourage researchers working on the history and memory of 1915, and to contribute to the transfer of research in this field to the greater public.
Detailed information regarding the call is available at http://www.hrantdink.org/index.php?Detail=7&Lang=en
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