Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalaycı

Director and Founder of the Oxford Network for Armenian Genocide Research.

I think and write about silence in history. My interest in the notion of silence arises from the work I have done on the Armenian genocide and for which I have received several awards. My first monograph on the Armenian genocide was a completely empty book (2010, 2015) which is on view in several library and art collections around the world.

My forthcoming monograph Reading Silences: Essays on Women, Memory and War in 20th Century Turkey (under contract with De Gruyter) stresses that women’s experiences and voices are central to the understanding of the Armenian genocide. My book is a unique comparison of Armenian and Turkish women’s diverse and complex historical experiences both during and after the genocide. It brings together women’s stories of martyrdom, trauma, and survival and those in which women took active part in genocidal violence.

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