Özge Özdemir is a postdoctoral researcher at FMSP since September 2022. She was awarded a Philipp Schwartz Fellowship by the Humboldt Foundation to conduct a project on memories of the 1980 coup d’état among Turkish political refugees in Germany. She holds a PhD from Hacettepe University and her thesis is titled “Traces of the 1960-1980 Period in Turkey: Temporality, Generation and Memory”. Her research interest includes memory studies, cultural studies and experiences of refugeehood and migration. More specifically, her interest is located in the mutual interaction between individual and collective memory. Currently, she works on a project about the memories of the Turkish political refugees who had to flee their homes after the September 12, 1980 coup d’état of Turkey and have been living in Germany since then. While thinking about the relationship between memory and mobility, she focuses on issues of refugeehood and integration practices.

Selected Publications and conference presentations:

Özdemir, Özge (2023, forthcoming). Türkiye’nin Altmışlı ve Yetmişli Yılları: Deneyim, Kuşak ve Bellek [Sixties and Seventies of Turkey: Experience, Generation and Memory]. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları.

Özdemir, Özge & Çömelekoğlu, Ozan, “A Heterotopic Memory of a Nation-State: Ankara Cebeci Asri [Modern] Cemetery of Young Turkish Republic”, International Conference “The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place”, 17-19 June 2022, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford and online.

Özdemir, Ö and Dilben, F. (2021). Sesin Taşıdığı Tarih: Müzik Kenti Urfa [History Carried by Sound: Music City Urfa]. In Yıldız, N. A. (Ed.) Bir Ahir Zaman Babil’i: Urfa. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları.

Özdemir, Özge, “Listening to the Past: Analyzing the Sixties and the Seventies of Turkey Through Popular Music”. International Music and Sciences Symposium,17-19 April 2019, İstanbul, Turkey.

Özdemir, Ö. (2018) Politik Mizahın ve Toplumsal Muhalefetin Alternatif Söylemsel Alanı Olarak Zaytung [Zaytung as an Alternative Discoursive Area of Political Humour and Public Opposition] Ankara Üniversitesi İlef Dergisi, 5(2), 7-28. DOI: 10.24955/ilef.491672