Address: Balat Orphanage is dedicated to the history of a place of care that played a pivotal role for Istanbul's Armenian community over the course of nearly two centuries: the Khorenyan School and Orphanage in the neighbourhood of Balat, which closed its gates in the late 1970s. As they trace the Khorenyan’s social and cultural memory, co-authors Tigran Amiryan and Arsen Abrahamyan reflect on the distinctive position of Armenian educational institutions in the Ottoman Empire and later in the Republic of Turkey. In exploring the intertwined processes of forgetting and remembrance, they offer intriguing insights into a rich trove of unpublished archival material that documents community life before, during, and after the Armenian Genocide.

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con·stel·la·tions publiziert kollaborative Wissenszusammenhänge, die an der Schnittstelle von künstlerischer und akademischer Praxis entstanden sind. 

con·stel·la·tions showcases the results of collaborative research at the intersection of artistic and academic practice. 

Die Reihe ist ein Format der gleichnamigen Plattform für kollaborative, vernetzte und transdisziplinäre Formate des Exzellenzclusters 2020 Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective an der Freien Universität Berlin. Im engen Dialog mit außeruniversitären Forschungseinrichtungen und Kulturinstitutionen — Museen, Theatern, Archiven, Bibliotheken — verbindet der Bereich Perspektiven und Methoden aus Kunst und Wissenschaft.

The series is a project of the eponymous hub for networked and transdisciplinary work conceived within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence 2020 Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective at Freie Universität Berlin. Entering into close dialogue with cultural institutions such as museums, theatres, archives and libraries, the CONSTELLATIONS hub conjoins methods and perspectives from scholarship, the arts and knowledge formations beyond the university.