Trauma, Memory, and fear of Repetition
Panel 3 – Trauma, Memory, and Postcolonial Silence
Chair: Nezih Erdoğan
İlker Özçelik – Two Worlds in 10 Minutes: Emotional Divide through Caruth’s Trauma Theory in Bosnian War Cinema
Aynaz Ghaderi Ghalehno – Voices of Fear: Women in Patriarchal Short Cinema (Online)
Nezih Erdoğan has published articles and book chapters on colonial discourse and sound and body in Turkish popular cinema, the reception of Hollywood in Turkey, censorship and the distribution and exhibition of American films in Turkey. He co-edited with Miyase Christensen Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European Context (2009). In 2010 he made a found footage video with composer Çigdem Borucu, Istanbul Do/Redo/Undo: Sular, Sokaklar, Suratlar/Waters, Streets, Faces, compiled from archival materials of Istanbul in the late 1890s and early 1900s. In recent years, he has published and given talks at national and international conferences on the problems of Turkish film history and historiography, how the introduction of cinema was received in the Istanbul press, and on the spectatorial experiences of Istanbulites in the late 1890s and early 1900s. He co-edited with Ebru Kayaalp Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age: Reinventing the Archive which came out from Amsterdam University Press in 2023. He is currently researching cinema in occupied Istanbul during 1918 and 1923.
