Memories of Imvros: Transformed Spaces of Identity and Belonging on an Aegean Island
Research Area 1 – Displacements, “Dépaysement” and Discrepencies: People, Knowledge and Practices
Research Area 3 – Objects, Traces, Mapping: Everyday Experience of Spaces
Contact: laura.brody(@)alumni.duke.edu
Fitting into the wider context of studies on diasporic transformation, the purpose of this research is to investigate intergenerational differences in the relationship that members of the Greek-speaking Imvriot diaspora have to Imvros (Gökçeada), one of the islands ceded to Turkey in the aftermath of WWI. The project seeks to take an alternative approach to understanding the experiences of ‘being Imvriot’ and ‘belonging to Imvros’ through an exploration of both the individual and collective relationships that members of the Imvriot diaspora exhibit towards both the island as a whole and to specific sites across the island.