Annemarike Stremmelaar - LUCIS/MOS Lecture Series Fall 2013
| Datum | donderdag 19 september 2013 |
|---|---|
| Tijd | 15:00 – 17:00 uur |
| Faculteit | Geesteswetenschappen |
| Locatie | Matthias de Vrieshof 4, room 008/A |
Annemarike Stremmelaar will give a LUCIS/MOS lecture entitled: ‘Turkish Antisemitism in the Netherlands’. She studied Turkish Languages and Cultures at Leiden University, where she defended her PhD dissertation Justice and Revenge in the Ottoman Rebellion of 1703 in 2007. From 2007 to 2009, she worked at the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) as editor of ISIM Review. From 2008 to 2010 she was also Lecturer in History of the Middle East in the Department of Arabic and Islam at Radboud University Nijmegen.
She is currently employed as researcher on the project “The Dynamics of Contemporary Antisemitism in a Globalising Context” at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. She is board member of the Dutch Association for Middle Eastern Studies (MOI) and editor-in-chief of ZemZem, a Dutch-language journal on the Middle East, North Africa, and Islam.
Dissertation: Justice and Revenge in the Ottoman Rebellion of 1703 (Leiden 2007).
Lecture
In February this year, a fierce public debate was sparked by a television program featuring four Turkish-Dutch youngsters who expressed their appreciation for Hitler and their aversion to Jews. Politicians and officials expressed their alarm at this manifestation of Antisemitism and stakeholders called for action, while publicists and analysts gave their opinions as to causes and solutions. With much of the debate evolving around the Turkish and Islamic roots of Antisemitism, the long history of Antisemitism in the Netherlands seemed to have been forgotten. This history has been shaped by the global movement of people and ideas, just like Antisemitism in Turkey has evolved as a result of such transnational interactions. The lecture will focus on the changing shapes of antisemitism in Turkey and their traces in the Netherlands.