Prior Years — Taner Akcam

The world premiere of the recently discovered lost film, “Jackie in the Near East,” a 1924 short film produced by the Near East Relief (NER) and featuring child-star Jackie Coogan, who helped raise millions of dollars in America for orphans of the Armenian Genocide.

You are invited to a special in-person event to mark a major new addition to the USC Libraries Holocaust & Genocide Studies Collection. The Vahakn Dadrian Armenian Genocide Book Collection is made possible by the Ararat Eskijian Museum and Research Center.

Looking at the situation with respect to attacks against ethnic Armenians as a result of the Lachin Corridor blockade, and recent active military attacks in Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh and in Armenia generally, this panel will explore the following key questions drawing from action taken thus far by States and international actors (or not):

As he prepares to depart from his position as Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair in Armeni-an Genocide Studies at Clark University to become the inaugural director of the Armenian Genocide Research Program within the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, Akçam will engage in a conversation with NAASR Academic Director Marc A. Mamigonian that will touch on such topics as the evolution of Akçam’s work, the history and development of Armenian Genocide Studies, the challenges facing the field, and his plans for the future in his new role.

Monday, June 17, 7:45 p.m. St. Leon Armenian at St. Leon Armenian Church, 12-61 Saddle River Rd., Fair Lawn, NJ  Co-sponsored by AGBU Ararat, Armenian Assembly of America, Armenian Democratic Liberal Party-Ramgavars, Armenian Network of America-Greater NY,  Daughters of Vartan-Sahaganoush Otyag, Knights of Vartan-Bakradouny Lodge, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), Tibrevank Alumni Inc., and St. Leon Armenian Church.   Click here to view flyer.