Staging National Abjection

Official account for the @ERC_Research-funded Staging National Abjection: Theatre and Politics in Turkey and Its Diasporas, PI Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay @LaStatale

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Yesterday we had the great privilege of welcoming Eugenia Paulicelli (@cunygraduatecenter) for her talk "Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt."
A lively Q&A and thought-provoking discussion followed — thank you to everyone who joined!

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Christina Banalopoulou will present her paper “Escaping Algos, Forgetting Nostos: Rum Amnesia as Staying During the Expulsions in 1970s Istanbul” at 10th International Interdisciplinary Conference “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia” InMind Support (Gdansk, Poland) on December 4.

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Francesco Rossetti will present his paper "Nostalgic Sound for Diasporic Youth: Armenian Children’s Songs in Italy" at “10th International Interdisciplinary Conference “Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia" - InMind Support (Gdansk, Poland) on December 4.

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Eugenia Paulicelli (@CUNY Graduate Center) will give a talk titled "Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt" at @LaStatale on December 10.

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We are pleased to conclude the Fall 2025 lecture series!

It has been an honour to welcome a distinguished group of scholars from around the world, whose contributions have stimulated rich and timely discussions on performance, politics, and cultural memory.

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Douglas Eacho will give a talk titled "Theatre without Workers: Automatic Performance after 2008" at Università Statale di Milano on September 25.
#stagingnationalabjection #ulusalabjeksiyonusahnelemek #nationalabjection #politics #performance #turkey #drama #theatre

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Oana Marin will give a talk titled "From Tragedy of the Commons to the Communality of Tragic: Spectacle and Power in the Polycrisis" at Università Statale di Milano on September 18.
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Esther Kim Lee will give a talk titled "Made-Up Asians: Rethinking Theatre History Through Yellowface Performance" at Università Statale di Milano on September 16.
#stagingnationalabjection #ulusalabjeksiyonusahnelemek #nationalabjection #politics #performance #turkey #drama

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Bilal Akar will present his paper "Decolonizing and Decentring the Archive: The Nebula of "Kurdish Princess" Leila Bederkhan” at EASTAP Annual Conference 2025: Decentre | Distribute | Democratise - International Conference on September 4.
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Bilal Akar will present his paper "Diaspora and Artistic Performance: Dance of Kurdish Princess Leila Bederkhan” at TaPRA- Theatre and Performance Research Association - International Conference on August 28.

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📣We are proud to share that Daniel Dilliplane, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, has received the New Scholars' Prize from the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR)! ���
His essay, was recognized for its originality, coherence, and scholarly rigor. Congratulations! 👏

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Francesco Rossetti will present his paper "A Deferred Primordial Sound: Resurfaced Musical Performance in the Milanese Armenian Avant-Garde" at “Global Mediterranean. Postcolonial Music Histories (16th-20th Century)” - IMS Intercongressional Symposium on July 10.

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We are pleased to conclude the Spring lecture series hosted by our Interdisciplinary Laboratory at the University of Milan. It has been an honour to welcome a distinguished group of scholars from around the world. #politics #performance #turkey #drama #theatre

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Bilal Akar will present his paper "Dancing Without a Homeland: Leila Bederkhan and the Fluid Communities of Stateless Performance" at "COMMUNITIES Literature, Culture, Environment" International Postgraduate Symposium - University of Malta on June 6.
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Sarah Balkin will give a talk titled "Smiling Deadpan: the Catwalk" at Università degli Studi di Milano on June 4.
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Fulvia Caruso will give a talk titled "Alliances and Isolation of Asylum Seekers in Italy" at Università degli Studi di Milano on May 26.
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Aurelién Bellucci will give a talk titled "People's Theaters: Democratic Experiments in the Performing Arts of Europe and Asia" at Università degli Studi di Milano on May 21.
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Melis Sulos will give a talk titled "Staging the Robust Child: Performing Puericulture in Early Republican Turkey" at Università degli Studi di Milano on May 14.
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Bilal Akar will present his paper "Negotiating Identity and Legacy Across Disparate Narratives: The Case of Leila Bederkhan" at The American University of Paris - Université Paris Cité on May 14.
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Prof. Görkem Aydemir-Kundakci will give a talk titled "Reviving the Passports of Dead State: Protracted Conflict and Hyper-documented Encounters in the de facto Georgia-Abkhazia" at Università degli Studi di Milano on May 8.
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