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Emine Fi艧ek joins the department as an IAS Visiting Fellow

Fi艧ek鈥檚 current research project asks: what is the relationship between theatre and memory in contemporary Turkey? Both domains have undergone significant shifts in the twenty-first century. In a national context historically dominated by centrally funded state and municipal theatre institutions, recent years have witnessed the proliferation of 鈥渁lternative theatres鈥�: small, independent ventures that seek new forms of theatrical expression and explore thorny issues of national memory and cultural identity. Meanwhile, political developments in the new millennium have contested the foundations of Turkey鈥檚 modernization project, producing new readings of the country鈥檚 past. In her research, Fi艧ek asks how alternative theatre has responded to this shifting terrain through a focus on theatre and gentrification, examining how artists depict the relationship between urban history and public memory, and how they negotiate their own involvement in processes of migration and urban transformation.