"The Sigh of Displacement: Affective Imaginaries of Post-Gezi Migration from Turkey" with Dr. Özlem Savaş
Savas
Research Factory B/ORDERS IN MOTION
October 30, 4:15-5:45 pm
on-site, room HG 109 (Main Building, Senate Hall)
The Sigh of Displacement: Affective Imaginaries of Post-Gezi Migration from Turkey
Dr. Özlem Savaş (Chair of Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology, EUV)
Due to escalating political oppression in Turkey after the 2013 Gezi movement, many dissident academics, artists, journalists, and students left for Berlin, Germany. Based on engaged ethnographic research across media, artistic projects, and public events, this talk examines affective practices and imaginaries that mediate the lived experiences of post-Gezi displacement. Through examples of audiovisual art, online blogs, and YouTube videos, it explores how they form subjectivities, relationalities, and belongings through the collective and political emotions they reveal, create, circulate, and archive. Rather than confining them to a distinct sphere of migrant culture or community, it situates these affective imaginaries within broader frameworks for living with and acting on troubled times, drawing on feminist and queer explorations of negative affect and cross-boundary relationalities.
Registration is not required.