/earthquake-memory-turkiye/ en /earthquake-memory-turkiye/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/earthquake-memory-turkiye/article/guest-contributions/reflections-recovery-processes-after-2023-kahramanmaras-earthquakes%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Post-disaster reconstruction, demolition and debris removal, rehabilitation, and other recovery processes in Kahramanmaraş are currently interwoven. The authorities responsible for urban governance often experience difficulties in setting priorities, tending to favor short-term and highly visible projects while neglecting fundamental and structural problems. Local administrators, who are already grappling with the chronic problems of the city, now face additional post-disaster challenges and suffer from shortcomings in merit-based management and institutional responsibility. Although new Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:31:22 -0400 A. Emre Cengiz 116 /earthquake-memory-turkiye/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/earthquake-memory-turkiye/article/guest-contributions/kataribe-and-memory-sites-japan-how-japan-treats-disaster-remains-long%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Japan offers a distinctive institutional approach to disaster remains. National and local governments support the preservation of selected ruins as disaster memory facilities and integrate them into museums, educational programs, guided tours, and regional initiatives such as the 3.11 Densho Road network. Through these programs, disaster remains become part of long-term recovery infrastructure that sustains reflection on past events and transmits lessons across generations. An important component of this memory infrastructure is the practice known as kataribe. The term kataribe (語り部), meaning Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Fatma Özdoğan 114 /earthquake-memory-turkiye/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/earthquake-memory-turkiye/events/article/research-workshop-three-years-after-2023-kahramanmaras-earthquakes-insights-ground%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E On February 8, 2026, Fatma Özdoğan led a workshop at the Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan for the third anniversary of the 2023 earthquakes in Southeastern Anatolia. The event brought together scholars based in Japan who have conducted, or are currently conducting, research on a range of disaster-related topics, including disaster education, risk governance, housing recovery, and memory studies. Özdoğan introduced and discussed the TEMP project, situating it within broader conversations on post‑disaster knowledge and community memory. The program featured several presentations followed by a Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:10:04 -0500 TEMP Team 111 /earthquake-memory-turkiye/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/earthquake-memory-turkiye/article/events/temp-workshop-ii-expanding-dialogue-turkiye-earthquake-memory-project%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E TEMP’s second workshop brought together students from Dr. Faika Çelik’s class at Manisa Celal Bayar University in Türkiye and the doctoral students in Dr. Ipek Türeli’s Fall 2025 ARCH 711/712 Proseminar at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture at �鶹��ý��վ. Throughout the semester, the �鶹��ý��վ doctoral students worked with oral history interviews from the TEMP website—first by closely analyzing an interview of their choice, and then by developing a research-creation project grounded in that material. During the workshop, Dr. Çelik’s students presented their experiences conducting Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0500 TEMP Team 112 /earthquake-memory-turkiye/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/earthquake-memory-turkiye/article/events/international-resilience-conference%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E Dr. Faika Çelik and Fatma Özdoğan presented the paper “Earthquake Memory and the Built Environment: Spatial Narratives from Türkiye” at the 7 th International Resilience Conference in Elazığ, Türkiye. October 13-15, 2025 Elazığ, Türkiye Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:23:42 -0400 TEMP 115 /earthquake-memory-turkiye/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/earthquake-memory-turkiye/article/events/society-architectural-historians-2025-78th-annual-international-conference%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E At the 2025 Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians’ inaugural poster session, the team represented by Dr. Ipek Türeli and Fatma Özdoğan presented the project poster, designed by the project’s undergraduate student assistants Andy Lin and Karya Yılmaz. The poster details the project’s purpose, research questions, methodology, contribution, and significance, along with an overview of the project’s work over the past year. April 30 th to May 4 th, 2025 Atlanta, Georgia Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:15:55 -0400 TEMP Team 113 /earthquake-memory-turkiye/%3Ca%20href%3D%22https%3A//www.mcgill.ca/earthquake-memory-turkiye/article/1939-erzincan-0%22%20hreflang%3D%22en%22%3Eview%3C/a%3E The devastating Erzincan Earthquake, which struck on December 26-27, 1939, profoundly impacted not only Erzincan but the entire eastern region of Türkiye. Marking the first major disaster in the young Republic's history, the quake registered a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale, resulting in 32,962 fatalities and approximately 100,000 injuries. The immense force of the earthquake transformed Erzincan and its surrounding provinces into scenes of devastation, with an estimated 116,720 buildings destroyed. Newspapers of the era, including Cumhuriyet, Akşam, Anadolu, Beyoğlu, Haber, Halkın Sesi Tue, 26 Dec 1939 12:35:39 -0500 TEMP team 104