İlkay Yılmaz reconsiders the history of two political issues, the Armenian and Macedonian questions, approaching both through the lens of mobility restrictions during the late Ottoman Empire from 1876 to 1908 in her book Ottoman Passports.
In light of the ethnic cleansing of the Armenian population of the Artsakh, the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies is hosting a daylong symposium featuring prominent figures from academia, the arts, and civil society, who will share their firsthand experiences of conflict, life under blockade, and dispossession.
Historians Sergio La Porta and Alison M. Vacca will discuss their English translation of Armenian priest Lewond’s chronicle of 8th century caliphal rule in Armenia.
This lecture addresses the politics of visibility and legal belonging by following the Cartozian family—from their sitting for an Ottoman expatriation portrait to exit the Ottoman Empire in 1906 to the family’s own deft use of advertising and portrait photography in the United States.