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Articles and Translations | 22.04.2025

The Responsibility to Remember: Memory Activism and Dialogue in Armenia

Interview: Noémi Lévy-Aksu  A photo taken during the memory walk titled "From Sebastia to Sebastia: Tracing Genocide Memories," organized by BANALIK…

Activities, Articles and Translations | 9.01.2025

A Journey with Young People into Balat’s Multi-Layered Memory

On December 13–14, 2024, we organized an international conference titled “Confronting the Past, Building the Future: Memory Studies with Youth,” aiming to introduce a new dimension to efforts for…

Statements and Announcements | 29.11.2024

International Conference - Confronting the Past, Building the Future: Memory Studies with the Youth

On December 13-14, Hafıza Merkezi will organize an international conference titled "Confronting the Past, Building the Future: Memory Studies with the Youth". The conference aims to contribute to the…

Activities | 11.10.2024

Symposium on Restorative Justice Approaches to Conflicts and Human Rights Violations-Istanbul, November 15-16

In the framework of its Justice Heals project, Hafıza Merkezi will organize an international symposium titled “Restorative Justice Approaches to Conflicts and Human Rights Violations: Opportunities…

Articles and Translations | 15.06.2024

Restorative Justice Interviews (2): Colombia, Mexico and the transformation of transitional justice

 Interview: Noémi Lévy-Aksu You have worked on transitional justice processes from a comparative and critical perspective, with a special focus on Latin America. How have approaches to…

Articles and Translations | 30.05.2024

Reclaiming the memory of dictatorship in Chile (4): Iran 3037

Interview by: Noémi Lévy-AksuIran 3037 is a memory site built in the 1950s and located in a residential neighborhood of Santiago. It was used by the DINA (National Intelligence Department) between…

Articles and Translations | 23.05.2024

Restorative Justice Interviews (1): Structural dimensions of injustice and restorative dialogue

Interview: Noémi Lévy-Aksu How did you become interested in restorative justice? What does restorative justice refer to in contexts of conflict or post-conflict?When I first heard about…

Articles and Translations | 20.05.2024

Museum of Memory and Human Rights (2): Museum as a learning space

Interview by: Noémi Lévy-AksuThe Museum of Memory and Human Rights (MMDH), our partner for the Connecting the Past to the Present project supported by the International Coalition of Sites of…

Articles and Translations | 7.05.2024

Museum of Memory and Human Rights (1): Chile's national memory institution

Interview: Merve Bakdur and Noémi Lévy-AksuThe Museum of Memory and Human Rights (MMDH) is the partner of our project Connecting Past to Present, supported by the International Coalition of Sites of…

Articles and Translations | 3.04.2024

Reclaiming the memory of dictatorship in Chile (3): Villa Grimaldi

Interview by: Noémi Lévy-AksuLocated in the suburbs of Santiago, Villa Grimaldi is a large estate which was known as Cuartel Terranova and used as a place of detention, torture, and execution during…

Articles and Translations | 27.03.2024

Reclaiming the memory of dictatorship in Chile (2): Casa Memoria José Domingo Cañas

Interview by: Noémi Lévy-AksuLocated in the Chilean capital of Santiago, Casa Memoria Jose Domingo Cañas 1367 was known as Cuartel Ollagüe and was used as a center of detention, torture, and…

Articles and Translations | 18.03.2024

Reclaiming the memory of dictatorship in Chile (1): Londres 38

Interview by: Noémi Lévy-AksuLondres 38 was one of the memory sites we visited during our field visit to Santiago between 7-13 January 2024. Located in a central district of Santiago, the house was…

Articles and Translations | 6.03.2024

Embroidery as a political tool: The empowering role of arpilleras for Chilean women

Interview by: Noémi Lévy-AksuMemorarte is a Chilean collective composed of women embroiderers [arpilleristas] who use traditional “arpillera” [embroidery] techniques to defend human rights. We had…

Activities | 1.02.2024

Notes from the Field: Memory Sites of Santiago

 The field visit started with the visit of the MMDH, a museum which was inaugurated in 2009 by the then President of the Republic Michelle Bachelet. The museum addresses the human rights…

Activities | 21.12.2023

New podcast series “Crossing the Aegean” traces the memory of the population exchange between Greece and Turkey

Hafıza Merkezi and the Legal Centre Lesvos, in collaboration with Community Peacemaker Teams, have joined forces to envision a transnational Aegean that opposes xenophobia, racism, and anti-migrant…

Activities | 6.09.2023

Timeless Crimes: Statute of Limitations and Human Rights

The history of the Republic of Turkey, as in many states with imperial pasts and nationalist ideologies, is characterized by distorted and covered-up realities, massacres, rights violations and…

Activities | 26.01.2023

Spatial Memory of Divided and Conflict-affected Cities: Diyarbakir and Nicosia

Diyarbakir Suriçi (Walled City) and Nicosia are two cities that have been physically and discursively divided by mechanisms of repression and violence. As a collaborative endeavor of Hafiza Merkezi…

Activities | 15.12.2022

Online Workshop: Memorializing Conflict-Related Violations of Children and Youth Rights

Click here to register for the workshop.As Hafıza Merkezi, we are organizing an online workshop to discuss different experiences and approaches on memorializing conflict-related violations of…

Activities | 15.12.2022

Online Workshop: Memorializing Conflict-Related Violations of Children and Youth Rights

Click here to register for the workshop.As Hafıza Merkezi, we are organizing an online workshop to discuss different experiences and approaches on memorializing conflict-related violations of…

Activities | 8.12.2022

Nominees for the Caring Workspaces Award have been announced

We completed the nomination and evaluation processes for the Caring Workspaces Award, which we run to encourage caring practices in our workspaces. We would like to thank everyone who participated…