Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024 at 5:30pm Eastern
Room 3-133
33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
Spring 2024 McMillan Stewart Lecture
FEATURED SPEAKER
DR. ELYSE SEMERDJIAN, Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies, at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University
In Remnants, tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal a larger history, as the lived trauma of genocide is understood through bodies, skin, and—in what remains of those lives a century afterward—bones. Learn about Prof. Elyse Semerdjian’s work in gathering individual memories and archival fragments of women survivors, offering a feminist interpretation of the Armenian Genocide and issuing a call to break open the archival record to embrace affect and memory.
Prof. Elyse Semerdjian is the Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. She was a past recipient of Cornell’s Society for the Humanities Fellowship in 2016
Elyse Semerdjian's book Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide is available from the NAASR Bookstore.
ORGANIZER
McMillan Stewart Chair in Women's and Gender Studies
CO-SPONSORS
McMillan Stewart Program in Women's and Gender Studies at MIT
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
