A lecture by Associate Professor Lerna Ekmekçioğlu, Director of the Women and Gender Studies Programme at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, took place on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, from 18:00 to 20:00 at the ‘Alkis Argyriadis’ amphitheatre, as part of a successful academic event organized by the Department of Turkish Studies and Modern Asian Studies of the NKUA School of Economics and Political Sciences.
The lecture was titled ‘A History of Armenian Feminism in the Ottoman Empire and Post-Genocide Turkey.’
Professor Eleni Sella, Chair at the Department of Turkish Studies and Modern Asian Studies, introduced the lecture, which was attended by many people, including members of the faculty and students of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
At the end of the lecture, Associate Professor Lerna Ekmekçioğlu took questions from the audience and then followed a fruitful discussion on the emergence of feminism among the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire and the post-Genocide period. There were also discussions of the connections between political and national identity on the one hand and feminism on the other.
The session has ended for security reasons.