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Eray Çaylı
Eray Çaylı, Ph.D. (University College London, 2015), studies the material and spatial legacies of political violence in Turkey anthropologically. His current research concerns how these legacies shape and are shaped by contemporary imaginaries of disaster and resilience. Çaylı is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow (2018–21) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he also teaches the postgraduate course ‘Imaging Violence, Imagining Europe’. He is currently completing a monograph tentatively titled Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of ‘Confronting the Past’ in Turkey and co-editing the volume Architectures of Emergency in Turkey: Heritage, Displacement, Catastrophe. Çaylı is a co-founder of Amed Urban Workshop, an independent academy for critical spatial research based in the city of Amed (officially known as Diyarbakır) in Turkey’s Kurdistan, where he also undertook a residency at the artist-run space Loading in summer 2019.