Dr. Egemen Özbek
Egemen Özbek is the Academic Coordinator of Academy in Exile at TU Dortmund, where he works closely with scholars, journalists, and cultural producers who are at risk, supporting them in continuing their intellectual and creative work in Germany.
Alongside this role, he is a researcher of memory politics, with an interest in how societies confront histories of violence, particularly in relation to the Armenian Genocide and its commemorations. He received his PhD in Cultural Mediations from Carleton University in Canada. His doctoral research focused on the ways the Armenian Genocide has been publicly remembered and contested in Turkey since 2010.
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