{"id":533,"date":"2025-11-13T19:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/necro-ist\/?p=533"},"modified":"2025-11-25T13:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:20:52","slug":"call-for-papers-necro-ist-workshop-cemetery-as-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/necro-ist\/call-for-papers-necro-ist-workshop-cemetery-as-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Call For Papers: NECRO\u2013IST Workshop, Cemetery as Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are delighted to announce our very first NECRO-IST workshop! Here are the details of the workshop:<\/p>\n

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NECRO\u2013IST WORKSHOP<\/strong><\/p>\n

CEMETERY AS ARCHIVE<\/b><\/p>\n

INTERDISCIPLINARY & APPLIED PERSPECTIVES ON NECROGEOGRAPHIES OF ISTANBUL<\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b>Saturday December 13th, 2025<\/p>\n

Sabanc\u0131 University<\/p>\n

Karak\u00f6y Minerva Han Communication Center<\/p>\n

Minerva Palas, Bankalar Caddesi No:2, Karak\u00f6y, 34420 \u0130stanbul<\/p>\n

Cashier\u2019s Lounge<\/p>\n

Deadline for submissions:<\/b> 4 December 2025<\/b><\/p>\n

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WORKSHOP PROGRAM\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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9:30 \u2013 10:00\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Registration & Coffee<\/p>\n

10:00 \u2013 10:15 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Welcoming Remarks<\/p>\n

10:15 \u2013 12:15\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Methodological Discussions & Approaches to Istanbul\u2019s Necrogeographies<\/p>\n

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N\u00fckhet Varl\u0131k\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cCemeteries as Necropolitical and Necrogeograpical Sources\u201d<\/p>\n

\u0130kbal Sezen Polat \u201cCemeteries as Topographical Archives: Istanbul\u2019s Land Walls\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilhelmine Coste \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cCemeteries and Archival Theory\u201d<\/p>\n

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12:15 \u2013 2:15 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Lunch Break<\/p>\n

14:15 \u2013 18:00 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Applied workshop<\/p>\n

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NECRO-IST: Necrogeographies of Istanbul <\/b>is an interdisciplinary research and public history initiative dedicated to mapping out surviving and lost graveyards of Istanbul, identifying the individuals buried therein, researching their stories, and generating publicly accessible information about them. We invite applications for our first public workshop,\u00a0 organized in collaboration with Sabanc\u0131 University and Rutgers University-Newark, to be held on December 13, 2025 at Sabanc\u0131 University\u2019s Minerva Han Communication Center in Istanbul. The purpose of the workshop is to showcase new and ongoing research, address emerging questions on methodology and sources, and collectively seek new perspectives for studying the necrogeographies of Istanbul and beyond.<\/p>\n

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CALL FOR PAPERS<\/b><\/p>\n

CEMETERIES AS ARCHIVES: INTERDISCIPLINARY & APPLIED PERSPECTIVES ON NECROGEOGRAPHIES OF ISTANBUL<\/b><\/p>\n

Cemeteries are more than a designated resting space for the dead. They are layered repositories of memory, identity, mobility, and landscape. We seek to understand cemetery<\/i> in its broadest sense, that is, not only as surviving and officially preserved burial grounds, but also as displaced, fragmented, destroyed, repurposed or even as entirely vanished mortuary sites. Cemeteries can endure in traces, in oral memory, as archival fragments, archeological layers, skeletal remains or molecular data. What does it mean to treat necrogeographies, burial grounds, and human and material remains as archives? How do cemeteries keep, transmit, and transform knowledge across time and space? What are the various methodological, historical, ethical, and theoretical tools that are required to examine these sites as archives?<\/p>\n

At a moment when the archive<\/i> is being reimagined across the humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, and design disciplines, cemeteries invite us to reconsider what constitutes evidence beyond institutional holdings. At the intersection of cultural studies, death studies, memory studies, and critical heritage research, cemeteries emerge as sites that now demand to be explored from interdisciplinary and applied perspectives. We thus invite scholars, artists, and practitioners to examine cemeteries, burial grounds, and mortuary landscapes as archives.<\/p>\n

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We especially encourage research in progress as well as experimental and interdisciplinary contributions that test new methodologies, revisit known materials or present preliminary findings. The workshop will be discussion-based, emphasizing collective reflection over polished results.<\/p>\n

Proposals may address, but are not limited to:<\/b><\/p>\n

–\u00a0 Archaeology and archeothanatology, as modes of archival interpretation<\/p>\n

–\u00a0 Human remains as archives of lived experience, disease, ancestry, movement, care, and violence<\/p>\n

–\u00a0 Bioarcheology and archaeogenetics, where molecular data serve as historical record<\/p>\n

–\u00a0 Lost, relocated or desecrated cemeteries, and methodologies required to reconstruct them<\/p>\n

–\u00a0 Cemeteries as ecological, topographic, and memory landscapes<\/p>\n

–\u00a0 Gravestones and epitaphs as biographical and literary archives<\/p>\n

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Possible Themes:<\/b><\/p>\n

– Burial topographies & urban memory<\/p>\n

– Demographic & social histories<\/p>\n

– Architectural landscape & art historical approaches<\/p>\n

– Material culture, epigraphy & the use of symbols<\/p>\n

– Cultural studies & death studies<\/p>\n

– Ritual, mourning & affective archives<\/p>\n

– Forensic, osteological & archaeogenetic archives<\/p>\n

– Digital mapping, data visualization & virtual reconstruction<\/p>\n

– Power, sovereignty & governance of the dead and cemeteries<\/p>\n

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We welcome submissions from historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, art and architectural historians, architects, urbanists, designers, digital mappers, geographers, sociologists, archivists, bioarcheologists, archaeogeneticists, and artists working on topics related to death, memory, landscape, and cultural heritage.<\/p>\n

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Submission Guidelines<\/b><\/p>\n

Please submit an abstract of approximately 300 words<\/b>, along with a short biographical note (100\u2013150 words)<\/b> including your affiliation (if any) and contact information.<\/p>\n

Presentations may be delivered in English or Turkish<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Please send submissions in a single PDF file to: necroist@outlook.com<\/b><\/p>\n

Deadline for submissions:<\/b> 4 December<\/strong>\u00a02025<\/b><\/p>\n

Place: <\/b>Minerva Han, Sabanc\u0131 University. Minerva Palas, Bankalar Caddesi No:2, Karak\u00f6y, 34420 Istanbul<\/p>\n

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For more information about NECRO-IST Project see our website and instagram page:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/necro-ist\/<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/necro_ist\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Workshop Organizers:<\/b><\/p>\n

N\u00fckhet Varl\u0131k, Rutgers University-Newark<\/p>\n

Akarsu Melike Demirkol, Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University<\/p>\n

Batu\u011fhan Tatar, Rutgers University-Newark<\/p>\n

\u0130kbal Sezen Polat, Middle East Technical University<\/p>\n

Mey\u00e7em Ceren Ulu, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin<\/p>\n

Tarkan G\u00f6r\u00fcc\u00fc, Middle East Technical University<\/p>\n

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