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Anna Aleksanyan, Women’s Daily Life in Exile (1915-1918) - November 17, 2025
Hybrid lecture by Dr. Anna Aleksanyan, a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Armenian Genocide Research Program within the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, with commentary by Dr. Taner Akcam. Monday, November 17, 20256:00 PM PT / 9:00 PM ETUCLA Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 Hybrid event: register on Zoom here. After being deported from their homes and arriving at transit camps, Armenian women had varying experiences depending on their location within the empire's Arab-speaking provinces. After crossing the Taurus Mountains, the deportees were forced to follow one of two routes: one to the east and the other to the north of Syria....
Cemal Pasha’s Role in the Armenian Genocide ~ Thursday, October 22, 2020 ~ Live on Zoom
In this presentation, Professor Akçam will explore the contrasting popular and scholarly views of the role of Cemal Pasha in Ottoman and Armenian history. While a commonly-held view of non-historians considers Cemal Pasha to be one of the “Three Pashas” (along with Talat Pasha and Enver Pasha) who were largely responsible for the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian Genocide (1914-1923), many historians in fact have argued that he actually opposed the annihilationist policies directed toward Armenians.
WHEN WAS THE DECISION MADE TO ANNIHILATE THE ARMENIANS? with Taner Akçam ~ LIVE on Zoom ~ Monday, September 14, 2020
In this presentation, Professor Taner Akçam will introduce some newly unearthed documents from the Ottoman archives in Istanbul that indicate that the first decision to exterminate Armenians was taken on December 1, 1914, well before most scholars in the field ever suggested.
WHEN WAS THE DECISION TO ANNIHILATE THE ARMENIANS TAKEN? A Presentation of New Research by TANER AKÇAM ~ Thursday, February 20, 2020
Thursday, February 20, 2020, at 7:30 pm NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building, Batmasian Hall, on the 3rd floor Reception after the program in the Shahinian SolariumIn this presentation of recent research, Taner Akçam argues that documents from the Ottoman archives in Istanbul indicate that first decision to exterminate Armenians was taken on December 1, 1914, well before most scholars have thought. Another document, a letter by Bahaettin Şakir, one of the main architects of the Armenian Genocide, written on March 3, 1915, says that the Central Committee of Union and Progress had decided to exterminate the Armenians, giving the government wide authority...