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Reading & viewing tips from Prof. Dr. Alice von Bieberstein 📚

Before her talk this Thursday, @alicebieberstein shares three recommendations:

01 · “Temptations in Ruin: Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025), her own book on the afterlife of the Armenian genocide in today’s Turkey.

02 · “A House in the Homeland: Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory” by Carel Bertram (Stanford University Press), on diaspora Armenians who travel to their families’ lost homes.

03 · “The Other Side of Silence”, the first book on the work of artist Hrair Sarkissian (Lenz Press, 2021).

🔗 Links in our story

🗓 Thu 15.10.2026 · 16:30–17:30
📍 Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne

Photo: Alice von Bieberstein by @alicebieberstein

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“In the wake of destruction, water, mountains, trees, and soil gain in significance and overflow with sacred meaning and affect.”

When buildings and places are destroyed, and property cannot be returned, the land itself (its rivers, trees and mountains) starts to carry memory. Today, Prof. Dr. Alice von Bieberstein (@alicebieberstein) will speak about how descendants of survivors of the Armenian genocide meet the land of their ancestors.

🗓 Thu 15.10.2026 · 16:30–17:30
📍 Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne (@rjmkoeln)
🗣 In German with English subtitles

Quote: Alice von Bieberstein
Photo: Alice von Bieberstein by @alicebieberstein

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🎙️Meet our next speaker: Alice von Bieberstein (@alicebieberstein)

This Thursday at Sensing Loss, Alice von Bieberstein (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) speaks about “Sehnsucht und Berührungsängste: Westarmenien für die Nachfahren der Überlebenden des armenischen Völkermords” (Longing and fear of contact: Western Armenia for the descendants of survivors of the Armenian genocide).

🔸Alice von Bieberstein is a visiting professor at the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her book “Temptations in Ruin: Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey” (Penn Press, 2025) explores the political and economic afterlife of the Armenian genocide in today’s Northern Kurdistan.

🗓 Thu 15.10.2026 · 16:30–17:30
📍 Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne (@rjmkoeln)
🗣 Talk in German with English subtitles

Portrait: Polina Georgescu by @alicebieberstein

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🍃This Thursday at Sensing Loss: Prof. Dr. Alice von Bieberstein(@alicebieberstein)

“Sehnsucht und Berührungsängste: Westarmenien für die Nachfahren der Überlebenden des armenischen Völkermords”
(Longing and fear of contact: Western Armenia for the descendants of survivors of the Armenian genocide)

Genocidal violence shatters and destroys worlds. Until 1915, the region now called Eastern Turkey, also known as Northern Kurdistan, was part of the historical homeland of Armenians. During World War I, around 1.5 million of them were expelled and murdered. Survivors were forced to assimilate or slowly moved to the cities of Western Turkey and later abroad. For decades this land was out of reach; only in recent decades has a careful kind of pilgrimage tourism begun.

The talk looks at genocidal violence as a radical force of separation, and at what this means for how descendants in the diaspora meet the land of their ancestors with their senses and bodies.

🔸Alice von Bieberstein is a visiting professor at the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her book “Temptations in Ruin: Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey” (Penn Press, 2025) explores the political and economic afterlife of the Armenian genocide in today’s Northern Kurdistan.

🗓 Thu 15.10.2026 · 16:30–17:30
📍 Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne (@rjmkoeln)
🗣 In German with English subtitles

Swipe for the full Sensing Loss programme 👉

Photos: Alice von Bieberstein by @alicebieberstein

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Happy to be part of this upcoming series at Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum! by @alicebieberstein

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Crip Fieldwork Toolkit: Hacks and Methods to Make Fieldwork Work as a Disabled Researcher

Our zine is out! This toolkit offers hacks and methods for disabled researchers doing fieldwork.

It features contributions by:
@alicebieberstein @aoife_donnellan_ @code.beschler elliot.mrozinski @___erin.d @izpaehr @kimmerrlee @magdalenaewabu

It was developed during the workshop Tooling Access: Developing Methods and Hacks for Crip Fieldwork by Iz Paehr, as part of the project Cripping Ethnographic Methods. The project is organised by the working group Collective Access of the Institute for European Ethnography at Humboldt University Berlin.

Disabled researchers face significant barriers when doing fieldwork. During the workshop, we collected and invented hacks, methods, and dreams towards crip fieldwork. We are sharing them with you all in this zine.

Check it out via disabledethnographers.com/cripfieldworktoolkit (flip book, link in bio) & izpaehr.xyz/cripfieldworktoolkit.html (PDF download) Two hands of a white person, Iz, hold a booklet into the camera. On the cover, the title reads: Crip Fieldwork Toolkit. Hacks and Methods to Make Fieldwork Work as a Disabled Researcher. This text is displayed atop a curved white banner, that sits playfully stop a vivid photgraph of a pillbox. The pills form a mesmerizing pattern. by @alicebieberstein

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Anhand der Kriminalisierung der kurdischen Freiheitsbewegung in Deutschland untersucht Alice von Bieberstein, wie sich Staatsbürgerschaft in Deutschland verändert. Die Repression gegen Kurd:innen nimmt dabei die Form einer stellvertretenden Aufstandsbekämpfung an. Staatsbürgerschaft werde dadurch vom Mittel der Überwachung nationaler Zugehörigkeitsgrenzen zum Mittel geopolitischer Allianzen.

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Drawing on the criminalization of the Kurdish freedom movement in Germany, Alice von Bieberstein examines how citizenship is changing in Germany. The repression of Kurds takes the form of a proxy counterinsurgency. Consequently, citizenship shifts from monitoring national boundaries of belonging to forging geopolitical alliances.

Link in Bio by @alicebieberstein

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“Cripping Ethnography” hybrid panels at the European Association of Social Anthropologists conference in Poznan, Poland Program listing of all seven presentations taken in Morasko, Poznań, Poland by @alicebieberstein

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Our first disabled anthropologists gathering at EASA takes place tomorrow after the “Cripping Ethnography” double panel organized by Alice Von Bieberstein and Elliot Mrozinski! Come by and get some SANDS stickers! taken in Poland Poznan by @alicebieberstein

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Study Projects – Presentations!

As is customary in the summer term, the study projects on the Master’s program “Ethnography: Theory – Practice – Critique” present their research during the last two sessions of the IfEE Institute Colloquium.

And now, we are looking forward to a presentation from the second study project:

Attempts at an abolitionist anthropology: a snapshot

Abolitionist struggles and theories analyse the intertwining of oppression and exploitation in both the nation-state and global capitalist contexts – with a focus on security infrastructures, strategies of criminalisation and forms of disenfranchisement. They draw on the knowledge of indigenous and resistance movements in the pursuit of the abolition of state, capitalism and patriarchy. Participants in this study project introduce abolitionist debates and link them to impressions from an excursion to Amed/Diyarbakir, where we explored the history and practice of the Kurdish freedom movement, as well as to their own research projects.

Coordination & Moderation: Alice von Bieberstein / @alicebieberstein

14.07. | 14:30 Uhr
@ IfEE, Raum 408 & on Zoom
in English

Everybody is very welcome! The IfEE is accessible; room 408 can be reached by lift, and accessible toilets are available.

More information on the lecture series, for the registration for online participation, and on accessibility can be found here: https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/das-institut/instituts-colloquium

#europäischeethnologie
#europeanethnologyberlin
#abolitionistanthropology
#newpaternalisms
@humboldtuni by @alicebieberstein

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So fabulous news!

Alice von Bieberstein’s / @alicebieberstein monograph

“Temptations in Ruin. Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey” (2025, University of Pennsylvania Press / )

has been awarded with an “honorable mention” by the
Memory Studies Association’s / @memstudiesassoc
Wulf Kansteiner First Book Award!

Co-sponsored by the journal Memory Studies, the Memory Studies Association annually awards the Wulf Kansteiner First Book Award to an outstanding single-authored first book that contributes to the fields of memory, identity, and history.

Congratulations, Alice!!

More on the award and the winners here: https://www.memorystudiesassociation.org/wulf-kansteiner-msa-first-book-award-2026-results/

And the book can be found here:
https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828405/temptations-in-ruin/

And soon in the library of HU Berlin! ;-)

#armeniangenocide
#anthropologyofgenocide
#politicalanthropology
#peaceandconflictstudies
#materialheritage
#ruins
#universityofpennsylvaniapress
#wulfkansteinerbookaward
#memorystudiesassociation
#europeanethnologyberlin by @alicebieberstein

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75,000 Armenians. 113 churches. 66 monasteries. 87 schools. More than 100 villages across the plain.

By the summer of 1915, almost all of them were dead or gone.

In her book “Temptations in Ruin: Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey” (University of Pennsylvania Press), anthropologist Dr. Alice von Bieberstein argues that 1915 didn’t end in 1915.

A century later, the last historic Armenian quarter of Mush was demolished by the state. Neighbors dug through the rubble for buried Armenian gold. One family fought to preserve the last standing house. Diaspora Armenians came and wept at church ruins.

Dr. von Bieberstein shows these are not separate stories. They are all expressions of what she calls sovereign accumulation - value extracted from a history of genocide that the state refuses to name but continues to exploit. The genocide restructured who owns land, who has rights, and whose history gets to exist. That restructuring is still ongoing.

The full program is now live on the NAASR YouTube channel. Link in bio.

📖 Temptations in Ruin is available at the NAASR Bookstore. @bookstore_naasr

Presented by NAASR and the Society for Armenian Studies. by @alicebieberstein

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