“History or Story? Remembering and Rewriting the Past”
by Tuba Baykara
Event Details
Date
Friday, February 13, 2026
Time
1-2 p.m.
Location
Description
This talk examines how Yuva (2012; originally Home, a novel written in English by Toni Morrison and later translated into Turkish) and Cümbezin Kızı (2023, a novel originally written in Turkish by Ülkü Demiray) use storytelling to reconstruct the past by weaving together memory, place, and identity, demonstrating how cultural memory transforms history into a dynamic and continually renegotiated process shaped by lived experience.
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Cost
Free and open to the public
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-4213 or email balgamis@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Friday, January 30, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.