Forests, Archives, Memory: Decolonizing Environmental Humanities through Turkish Literature

• Dr. Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim
• Tuesday, 25th March 2025
• 14:30 – 16:30 (London GMT) 17:30 – 19:30 (Ankara UTC+3)
• BIAA, Atatürk Bulvarı 154/1 and ONLINE

This talk presents a fresh perspective on the intersection of Turkish literature with ecological violence, collective memory, and socio-political struggles. Drawing on environmental humanities and the emerging field of environmental memory studies, it introduces and explores the concept of “arboreal memory,” positioning trees and forests as living archives that bear witness to environmental and social traumas. Through an analysis of literary representations of Mediterranean and Anatolian landscapes, the talk investigates how arboreal spaces serve as sites where both human and nonhuman collectives remember and respond to ecological destruction and its lasting aftermath.

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