1. Social memory: places and rites of remembering February 10, 2009

2. The Swords of Qādisīyah, also called the Hands of Victory, Baghdad (1989)

3. Monument as site-specific art: Mount Rushmore National Memorial Keystone, South Dakota (1927-1941) Originally known to the Lakota Sioux as Six Grandfathers, this Native American sacred mountain was renamed after Charles E. Rushmore, a prominent New York lawyer, during an expedition in 1885. The site was seized from the Lakota tribe after the Great Sioux War of 1876-77.

4. Nation state and its monuments Ataturk’s mausoleum in Ankara- Anitkabir (1953)

5. Modernizing Ankara: Ataturk Boulevard in early 20 th c.

6. Ground zero: WTC Site, New York 2001Ground zero: Hiroshima 1945 “The term Ground Zero may be used to describe the point on the earth's surface where an explosion occurs.” (Wikipedia)

7. Aerial view of the World Trade Center site, 2001.

8. New Orleans: An aerial view showing floodwaters around the entire downtown area after Hurricane Katrina (2005).

11. the interviewing of individuals about their personal experiences of past events for the purpose of recollecting alternative narratives, which are not necessarilybound by official histories, and which are essentially silenced by those official histories.  storytelling  performance  collective memory  narrativity What is oral history?

12. ... that there were people who realised that the struggle of citizens against state power is the struggle of their memory against forced forgetting, and who made it their aim from the beginning not only to save themselves but to survive as witnesses to later generations, to become relentless recorders... Connerton 15

13. Population exchange between Greece and Turkey 1919-1922 1,400.000 uprooted State violence and memory

14. Maurice Halbwachs (11 March 1877 - 16 March 1945) a French philosopher and sociologist

15. Diaspora narratives: Armenians of Providence

16. North Burial Ground, Providence

20. Palu on the Euphrates, Eastern Turkey

21. Old Palu: homeland of Providence Armenians

23. Armenian family from Palu, Karakoçan/Depe/Tepeh Bedros and Mariam Bedrosian Manuk Vartanian’s wife Elizabeth Krekorian, from Palu

24. Surp Boghos Vank Church, Old Palu, Pesi (Nubshi) Village

26. Armenian Monastery in Akdamar Island in Lake Van, Eastern Turkey Cathedral Church of the Holy Cross (915-921 AD) Sites of memory

27. Memory is not stored: it is performed collective action that re-animates history by re-iteration, social performance

28. Collective memory, social performance and architectural space Paul Connerton: commemorative ceremonies ritual performances Pierre Nora: inscription of memory in the material world, architectural surfaces sites, places, landscapes of memory Bernard Tschumi: Event-places

30. Woodstock