2014 AHDA Fellow Oriol López-Badell and the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM) co-organized the Annual Conference of the International Committee of Memorial Museums in Remembrance of the Victims of Public Crimes as part of ICOM’s General Conference held in July in Milan.
The conference included a presentation by 2014 Fellow Nayat Karakoseoglu titled “Challenging the social amnesia and politics of oblivion through the Hrant Dink Site of Memory“. The presentation focused on the importance of creating creating a site of memory at the former offices of Hrant Dink, a prominent Armenian journalist assassinated in 2007 in Istanbul,and how creating such a site will contribute to coming to terms with the past, reconciliation and mutual understanding as well as setting a precedent for the creation of other sites.
Oriol López-Badell is the coordinator at EUROM, a multidisciplinary network of partners that analyze, discuss, and reflect on remembrance policies. It is supported by the University of Barcelona Solidarity Foundation.The Solidarity Foundation seeks to encourage social responsibility, to foster initiatives for defending democracy, peace and human rights, and to promote social action through various projects and community outreach.
Nayat is a program coordinator at the Hrant Dink Foundation and is particularly interested in sites of memory as a means for remembering, raising awareness and dealing with violent pasts. She is coordinating the project for creating the Hrant Dink Site of Memory and Conscience in Turkey.
