Inside a hefty volume of multilingual documents stored in La Courneuve, France, there sits nestled a 60-page work written in early modern Armenian script. In his Manoogian Postdoctoral Lecture, Daniel Ohanian takes us into the genre-defying pages of this work, identifying the man (or men?) who produced it, the lies and truths that it contains, and the world that it reveals. Through it, we explore the religious politics of early modern global Catholicism, French-Ottoman diplomacy, and the historiographic benefits of focusing attention on the lives of particular individuals.
A Captive's Testimony
The Lives and Lies of an Ottoman-Armenian Prisoner in the Bastille
Featured Presenter
- Daniel Ohanian
Date & Time
Wednesday, December 2, 2026 | 4:30-6:00 PM
Location
Room 555, Weiser Hall, 500 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI
Format
Hybrid
Sponsors
- Department of History (U-M)
- Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies (U-M)
- Department of Middle East Studies (U-M)
- Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies (U-M)
- National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
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