Elke Hartmann M.A.
Historian and Islamic studies scholar. Member of the DFG research group “Self-Narratives in Transcultural Perspective“ since October 2008. Prior to that researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Islamic Studies at Free University Berlin (2003-2008). 2010 co-founder of www.houshamadyan.org.
Research Areas:
Modern Ottoman history, especially concerning question of modernisation, military history, cultural and technical adaptation processes, minorities, nation and state building, collective violence and its organisation, genocide; memory and historiography; self-narratives of Armenian genocide survivors, self-narratives in transcultural perspective
Publications (selection):
„’The Turks and Kurds are our Fate’: ARF Concepts and Strategies of Self-Defense as Reflected in Roupen Der Minasian’s Memoirs“, in: The Armenian Review (Special Issue) (forthcoming)
Geschichtsschreibung als Nationsbildung: Die armenischen Kolonien Ostmitteleuropas in der armenischen Geschichtsschreibung und Erinnerung nach 1915, in: Bálint Kovács (Ed.): Armenier im östlichen Europa, Bd. 1: Armenians in East European History: The State of the Art, Wien / Köln / Weimar (Böhlau) (forthcoming)
Shaping the Armenian Warrior: Clothing and Photographic Self-Portraits of Armenian fedayis in the Late 19th-and Early 20th-Century, in Claudia Ulbrich / Richard Wittmann (Ed.), Fashioning the Self in Transcultural Settings: The Uses and Significance of Dress in Self-Narratives, Würzburg (Ergon) 2012 (forthcoming)
The Central State in the Borderlands: Ottoman Eastern Anatolia in the Late 19th Cetury, in: Eric Weitz / Omer Bartov (Ed.), Shatterzone of Empires. Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands, Bloomington (Indiana University Press) 2013 (forthcoming)
Houshamadyan Projesi: Osmanlı Ermenilerinin tarihine yeni bir yaklaşım, in: Toplumsal Tarih 222 (2012), p. 8-10
(with Gabriele Jancke): Roupens „Erinnerungen eines armenischen Revolutionärs“ (1921/51) im transepochalen Dialog – Konzepte und Kategorien der Selbstzeugnis-Forschung zwischen Universalität und Partikularität“, in: Claudia Ulbrich / Angelika Schaser / Hans Medick (Ed.): Selbstzeugnis und Person – Transkulturelle Perspektiven, Wien / Köln / Weimar (Böhlau) 2012 (Schriftenreihe Selbstzeugnisse der Neuzeit), p. 31-71
Roupeni "Hay heghapokhagani me hishadagnere" – inknavgayakroutian ararga yev badmakragan aghpiur in: Hayasdani Azkayin Arkhiv (Ed.), Roupen Der-Minasian. Pasdatghteri yev niuteri joghovadzou, Yerevan 2011, p. 39-48
The “Loyal Nation“ and Its Deputies. The Armenians in the First Ottoman Parliament, in: Christoph Herzog / Malek Sharif (Ed.), The First Ottoman Experiment in Democracy, Würzburg (Ergon) 2010 (Istanbuler Texte und Studien, Vol. 18), p. 187-222
Articles „Armenier im Osmanischen Reich“, „Enver Paşa“, „Muhacirun“ und „Talât Paşa“ in: Detlef Brandes / Holm Sundhaussen / Stefan Troebst (Ed.), Lexikon der Vertreibungen: Deportation, Zwangsaussiedlung und ethnische Säuberung im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts, Wien / Köln / Weimar (Böhlau) 2010, p. 46-49, 223-224, 444-447, 636-637
“Havadarim Azke“ ou Anor Yerespokhannere, in: Datev Hayakidagan Darekirk 1 (2008), S. 144-206