Cummings Foundation Grant Recipient

Prior Years — Hamidian Massacres

THE HAMIDIAN MASSACRES OF 1894-97: Challenging Traditional Perspectives ~ Wednesday, May 31, 2023 ~ On Zoom/YouTube

THE HAMIDIAN MASSACRES OF 1894-97: Challenging Traditional Perspectives ~ Wednesday, May 31, 2023 ~ On Zoom/YouTube

Dr. Owen Miller, the author of a thesis and several research articles on the Sasun massacre of 1894 and its background, will discuss with Dr. Jelle Verheij his findings and the need for revision of the traditional perspectives, touching on many of the key issues and players: the death toll, characteristics and motivation of the perpetrators, the roles of the Ottoman authorities, foreign powers and Armenian revolutionary parties.

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THEY VOWED NEVER TO RETURN: Armenian Transatlantic Mobility and ‘Undesirable Subjects’ at the end of the Ottoman Empire ~ Tuesday, March 28, 2023 ~ On Zoom/YouTube

THEY VOWED NEVER TO RETURN: Armenian Transatlantic Mobility and ‘Undesirable Subjects’ at the end of the Ottoman Empire ~ Tuesday, March 28, 2023 ~ On Zoom/YouTube

This talk will expand the category of anti-Armenian violence in the Hamidian era to contain the denaturalization of targeted populations and methods devised to control their movements, such as photo registers. It will focus on the Armenian mobility between the Ottoman Empire and the United States between 1896-1908. 

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POSTPONED: THE HAMIDIAN MASSACRES OF 1894-97: Challenging Traditional Perspectives

POSTPONED: THE HAMIDIAN MASSACRES OF 1894-97: Challenging Traditional Perspectives

Dr. Owen Miller, the author of a thesis and several research articles on the Sasun massacre of 1894 and its background, will discuss with Jelle Verheij his findings and the need for revision of the traditional perspectives, touching on many of the key issues and players: the death toll, characteristics and motivation of the perpetrators, the roles of the Ottoman authorities, foreign powers and Armenian revolutionary parties.

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