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About the exhibition

The exhibition, which lasted from 29.3 to 28.4.2024, informed the public about the history of Romeyka, a Greek language still spoken in Turkey, and enhance public awareness around the endangered status of Romeyka in contemporary Turkey and its closest cognate, namely, Pontic Greek in Greece. Romeyka is currently spoken by a number of communities across the Trabzon region of Turkey and it presents us with an invaluable linguistic and sociocultural imprint which is soon to become extinct.

Based on long-term ethnographic work in the Black Sea, the exhibition generated further reflections on endangered heritages and collective memory, as well as helped us get a better grasp of localised experiences and how these can transform into cross-national ones; intergenerational stories of co-existence and displacement; and alternative modalities of being and belonging.

Curated by Prof. Ioanna Sitaridou, University of Cambridge and Queens’ College