Turkish-Australian transnational life writing with Dr Burcu Cevik-Compiegne

Overview

Join Dr Burcu Cevik-Compiegne as she presents a lecture on her 2024 National Library Fellowship research into uncovering different forms of life writing produced in Australia following the Labour Migration Scheme between Turkey and Australia in 1967.

Dr Burcu Cevik-Compiegne is a 2024 National Library of Australia Honorary Fellow.

The National Library of Australia Fellowships program offers researchers an opportunity to undertake a 12-week residency at the Library. This program is supported by generous donors and bequests.

Dr Burcu Cevik-Compiegne’s Fellowship project, 'Turkish-Australian transnational life writing' explores Turkish-language sources in the National Library’s collections to uncover different forms of life writing produced in Australia following the Labour Migration Scheme between Turkey and Australia in 1967.

Dr Burcu Cevik-Compiegne is a lecturer at ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies as the Convenor of Turkish Studies. Her research focuses on the social and cultural legacies of the First World War and politics and practices of remembrance of the war in post-imperial and postcolonial nations.