Prior Years — Armenian Genocide
Bir Arşiv: Emval-i Metrukelerin Açık Artırma ile Satış İlanları (The Auctioning of Stolen Armenian Properties: Emval-i Metruke) - September 18, 2025
Sait Çetinoğlu and Taner Akçam present an archive of digitized advertisements from the 1920s and 1930s of the confiscated properties of Armenian Genocide victims.
TEACHING WITH TESTIMONY: Denial and the Armenian Genocide ~ Tuesday, December 12, 2023 ~ Webinar
In this webinar, educators will learn about the impact of genocide denial and distortion on Armenian Genocide education as well as strategies on how to integrate testimony into the classroom to develop students' agency and resilience to misinformtaion.
MARIAM'S TATTOOS: The Afterlives of a Humanitarian Photograph ~ Wednesday, November 15, 2023 ~ On Zoom
Dr. Elyse Semerdjian will discuss her book Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide wherein tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal the larger history of gender and genocide. In this talk she will focus her discussion on contextualizing a single 1919 humanitarian portrait of a young woman named Mariam Azarian.
AFTER THE OTTOMANS: Genocide's Long Shadow and Armenian Resilience ~ Tuesday, September 26, 2023 ~ In Person at NAASR/On Zoom/YouTube
Edited by Hans-Lukas Kieser, Seyhan Bayraktar, and Khatchig Mouradian, After the Ottomans: Genocide’s Long Shadow and Armenian Resistance (I.B. Tauris, 2023), presents the work of eleven scholars of history, anthropology, literature, and political science exploring the Ottoman Armenians not only as the major victims of the First World War and the post-war treaties, but also as agents striving for survival, writing history, transmitting the memory and searching for justice.
WITNESSING the ARMENIAN MASSACRES ~ The Story of a Physician, a Poet, an a Book of Poems: Dr. Diran Balakian, Siamanto, and Bloody News from My Friend ~ Thursday, April 27, 2023 ~ In-Person/On Zoom/YouTube
Peter Balakian will discuss the book of poems Bloody News from My Friend by Siamanto (1878-1915). Dr. Diran Balakian, Peter Balakian’s grandfather, at the time of the 1909 Adana massacres was working as a physician tending to the wounded and was also an eyewitness to the atrocities.
EMERGING From The GENOCIDE'S SHADOW: Stories of Armenian Resilience ~ Sunday, April 23, 2023 ~ In-Person Event
Dr. Khatchig Mouradian is the author of the award-winning book The Resistance Network:The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 (Michigan State University Press, 2021).
THAT TROUBLESOME WORD, GENOCIDE: How Should We Understand It? ~ Friday, April 21, 2023 ~ In-Person/On Zoom/YouTube
Professor Ron Suny, emeritus of the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan -- and author of a major study of the massacres and deportations committed by the Ottoman Turks in 1915, "They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else": A History of the Armenian Genocide (Princeton University Press, 2015) -- uses the insights of Moses' work to take a fresh look at the Armenian tragedy and how it provides another lens to look at the concept of genocide.
COLLECTIVE TRAUMA AND THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: Armenian, Turkish and Azerbaijani Relations Since 1839 ~ Thursday, June 2, 2022 ~ On Zoom
The lessons Dr. Pamela Steiner has taken about what might be needed to achieve something positive among Armenians, Turks and Azerbaijanis is pulled together in her recent interdisciplinary book, Collective Trauma and the Armenian Genocide: Armenian, Turkish and Azerbaijani Relations Since 1839.