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Talat Pasha's Genocide Technocrat: A Biography of Mustafa Reşat Mimaroğlu

Talat Pasha's Genocide Technocrat: A Biography of Mustafa Reşat Mimaroğlu

In this talk, Dr. Ümit Kurt explores Mimaroğlu’s biography including his relationship with the Armenian journalist and professor Diran Kelekian, who was arrested by his former student Mimaroğlu in April 1915 and killed; examine the continuation of a genocidal regime in the modern Turkish Republic and how genocidaires such as Mimaroğlu constituted core elements of the new state; and explore what kinds of administrative/bureaucratic mechanisms made the Armenian Genocide possible and how technocrats like Mustafa Reşat, taking charge of these mechanisms, facilitated the genocide for political decision-makers.

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Mapping the Armenian Highland with Matthew Karanian

Mapping the Armenian Highland with Matthew Karanian

Author and lawyer Matthew Karanian discusses how a series of maps that his great uncle Mardiros Kheranian produced one century ago encouraged Matthew's own research of ancient Armenia, and guided him along the way. Matthew has published several books about Armenia.

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'A Wedding of Armenian Types, Armenian Customs:' Revisiting Garabed Nichanian’s Provincial Wedding in Moush (1890)

'A Wedding of Armenian Types, Armenian Customs:' Revisiting Garabed Nichanian’s Provincial Wedding in Moush (1890)

The presentation undertakes a close reading of a major painting – Provincial Wedding in Moush – by the notable, but now forgotten, Constantinople artist Garabed ‘Charles’ Nichanian (1861-1950).

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Armenian Genocide Oral History Collections at USC Shoah Foundation: An overview of the Armenian Genocide Survivor Testimony Collections in the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive (VHA)

Armenian Genocide Oral History Collections at USC Shoah Foundation: An overview of the Armenian Genocide Survivor Testimony Collections in the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive (VHA)

The presentation provided an overview of the collections and a demonstration on how to use the Visual History Archive by Manuk Avedikyan, former program officer (Armenian Genocide collections) at USC Shoah Foundation.

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Fridtjof Nansen: Humanitarianism and the Armenian Question in the Interwar Period

Fridtjof Nansen: Humanitarianism and the Armenian Question in the Interwar Period

Dr. Roy Knocke sheds light on Nansen humanitarian merits during the interwar period, especially on his commitment for the Armenians, a people to whom he admiringly dedicated one of his last books Gjennem Armenia in 1927 (translated as Armenia and the Near East in 1928).

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