Cummings Foundation Grant Recipient

Current Year — Armenian Genocide Research Program at PAI

The Right of the First Night and Sexual Violence Against Armenian Women in the 19th Century ~ Monday, April 29, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA) and on YouTube

The Right of the First Night and Sexual Violence Against Armenian Women in the 19th Century ~ Monday, April 29, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA) and on YouTube

In this lecture, Dr. Anna Aleksanyan will discuss how different types of sexual violence, including the right of the first night, affected provincial Armenian life in the 19th century and what was done to prevent these acts of violence.

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IMAGINING THE PAST: Atrocity Trauma and the Armenian Genocide ~ Thursday, April 18, 2024 ~ In Person: UCLA

IMAGINING THE PAST: Atrocity Trauma and the Armenian Genocide ~ Thursday, April 18, 2024 ~ In Person: UCLA

Peter Balakian will discuss how he has worked through filaments of Armenian history to create an inventive body of literature. He will explore how his work has moved across generations in his writing both poetry and memoir about the Armenian Genocide.

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EMPIRE OF QUESTIONS: The Late Ottoman Empire and Dersim '38 ~ Friday, March 15, 2024 ~ In Person: UCLA/On Zoom/YouTube

EMPIRE OF QUESTIONS: The Late Ottoman Empire and Dersim '38 ~ Friday, March 15, 2024 ~ In Person: UCLA/On Zoom/YouTube

Join us as we examine the emergence of various groups as “questions” within the overarching Eastern Question and trace their subsequent solutions through various means of coerced homogenization in the global context of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century racial thinking.

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