Event Videos — #NAASR
The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province
One cornerstone of the wartime campaign against Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was the confiscation of their properties and wealth, which were subsequently transferred to Muslim elites and used in reshaping the domestic economy as well as covering wartime expenses.
THE POLITCAL MADEMOISELLE OF THE WOMEN'S WARD: Vartouhie Calantar-Nalbandian at Istanbul’s Central Prison (1915-18)
This talk provides a biography of Vartouhie Calantar-Nalbandian and analyze her prison memoirs. It will also briefly discuss her partnership with husband Zaven Nalbandian in taking up the “Zarevand” penname in the mid-1920s in the U.S. for the writing of the book United and Inde-pendent Turania (Միացեալ, Անկախ Թուրանիա).
Seismic Histories in Nadia Owusu's Aftershocks
Join Nadia Owusu and Laure Astourian for a conversation on the reverberations of history in Owusu's widely praised memoir Aftershocks (2021).
UNCOMMON GENEALOGIES: Violence, Belonging and Memory in the Eastern Frontier
Dr. Sengul asks how an analytical focus on (male) gender and methodological orientation in genealogy may help render connective formations and experiences of political violence in these borderlands beyond the limits of historicism and/or methodological nationalism.
Crisis In Armenia's Russia-Only Security Doctrine
Analysts Lilit Gevorgyan and Armen Kharazian discuss Crisis in Armenia's Russia-Only Security Doctrine, the second in the What’s Next series of discussions on the post-war Armenian reality