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CSLS Speaker Series: Portraits of Unbelonging: Photographic Journeys Across Borders (Stanford University Press, 2026)

Date
Mon, Nov 16, 2026
Time
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM PST
Location
200 California Hall, Berkeley, CA
Host
University of California-Berkeley
Details
Featuring Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University–New BrunswickAbstract: In 1896 the Ottoman sultan issued a decree that allowed Armenians—and only Armenians—to emigrate on the condition that they expatriate and never return to their homeland. A key step in this process was sitting for a photograph. The Ottoman state archived the photographs; the Armenian m

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