Prior Years — Ronald Suny
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.
WHAT DOES A SMALL NATION KNOW? Armenians and the Wages of Nationalism ~ Friday, February 12, 2021 ~ Live on Zoom
Professor Ronald Grigor Suny explores the benefits and the wages of nationalism, its costs to a small nation, and how it has contributed to the tragic moment the country faces today. Sossie Kasbarian is discussant.
This lecture is part of the UCLA Promise Armenian Institute Distinguished Lecture Series, which is co-sponsored by the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR).