Cummings Foundation Grant Recipient
Cummings Foundation Grant Recipient
Lecture Series

Nazi Looted Art as a Model for Recovery of AGLA: Armenian Genocide Looted Art

Taner Akçam • Michael Bazyler
Date & Time
May 1, 4, & 5, 2026 (see description)
Location
Various (see description)
Format
Hybrid
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Nazi Looted Art as a Model for Recovery of AGLA: Armenian Genocide Looted Art flyer
Nazi Looted Art as a Model for Recovery of AGLA: Armenian Genocide Looted Art
Featured Presenters
  • Taner Akçam
  • Michael Bazyler
Date & Time
May 1, 4, & 5, 2026 (see description)
Location
Various (see description)
Format
Hybrid
Sponsors
  • Armenian Genocide Research Program (AGRP)
  • Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC) at the CUNY Graduate Center
  • NYC Times Square Armenian Genocide Committee
  • St. Leon Armenian Church
  • National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) / Calouste Gulbenkian Series on Contemporary Armenian Issues
Description

Note on locations and times:

  • Friday, May 1, at 6:30 PM (ET)
    • Location: Skylight Room in the Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY) (365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016)
    • Parking: There are paid garages nearby or attendees can take the subway to 34th Street Herald Square (N/Q/R/W and B/D/F/M) and walk several minutes to the venue.
    • More info: CUNY Event Post
  • Monday, May 4, at 7:30 PM (ET)
    • Location: St. Leon Armenian Apostolic Church (12-61 Saddle River Rd #369, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410).
    • Parking: There is a parking lot on site.
    • More info: St. Leon's Website
  • Tuesday, May 5, at 7:30 PM (ET)
    • Location: National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) (395 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA 02478).
    • Parking: There is a parking lot on site.
    • More info: NAASR Event Flyer

Dr. Taner Akçam and Law Professor Michael Bazyler, will explore efforts to identify and recover Armenian art looted during the Armenian Genocide, drawing parallels with Nazi-looted art restitution.

The programs will touch on UCLA's Armenian Genocide Looted Art Research Project (AGLARP), which brings together law students and art students—many of them Armenian-Americans—to search museum and institutional collections for Armenian art objects, aiming to create a comprehensive list of all Armenian art in the United States and their provenances.

The AGLARP specifically seeks to identify objects looted during or after the Armenian Genocide. Law Professor Michael Bazyler of Chapman University will discuss how models of Nazi-looted art recovery can inform this work, highlighting the legal and historical dimensions of restitution efforts. AGRP Director Dr. Taner Akçam will provide additional context on the Armenian Genocide and the scholarly significance of this unprecedented initiative.

Dr. Taner Akçam is the is the inaugural director of the Armenian Genocide Research Program of the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA. Previously he was the Kaloosdian and Mugar Chair in Modern Armenian History and Genocide in the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Akçam is widely recognized as one of the first Turkish scholars to write extensively on the Ottoman-Turkish Genocide of the Armenians in the early twentieth century. His latest book is Killing Orders: Talat Pasha’s Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide (Palgrave 2018).

Dr. Michael Bazyler is professor of law and the 1939 Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies. He is holder of previous fellowships at Harvard Law School and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In fall 2006, he was a Research Fellow at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem (The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority of Israel) and the holder of the Baron Friedrich Carl von Oppenheim Chair for the Study of Racism, Antisemitism and the Holocaust. Before joining Chapman in 2008, he was a professor for 25 years at Whittier Law School. He received his B.A. from UCLA and his JD from USC.

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