Cummings Foundation Grant Recipient

Prior Years

LAWYERS BEYOND BORDERS: Advancing International Human Rights Through Local Laws and Courts ~ Wednesday, October 6, 2021 ~ On Zoom/YouTube

LAWYERS BEYOND BORDERS: Advancing International Human Rights Through Local Laws and Courts ~ Wednesday, October 6, 2021 ~ On Zoom/YouTube

Dr. Maria Armoudian discusses her book Lawyers Beyond Borders: Advancing International Human Rights Through Local Laws and Courts.

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THE ARMENIANS OF AINTAB: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province ~ Tuesday, October 5, 2021 ~ On Zoom/YouTube

THE ARMENIANS OF AINTAB: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province ~ Tuesday, October 5, 2021 ~ On Zoom/YouTube

Dr. Ümit Kurt speaks on the topic of his book The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province.

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THE POLITICAL MADEMOISELLE OF THE WOMEN'S WARD: Vartouhie Calantar-Nalbandian at Istanbul’s Central Prison (1915-18) ~ Wednesday, September 22, 2021 ~ On Zoom/YouTube

THE POLITICAL MADEMOISELLE OF THE WOMEN'S WARD: Vartouhie Calantar-Nalbandian at Istanbul’s Central Prison (1915-18) ~ Wednesday, September 22, 2021 ~ On Zoom/YouTube

This talk will first provide a biography of Vartouhie Calantar-Nalbandian and analyze her prison memoirs. It will also briefly discuss her partnership with husband Zaven Nalbandian in taking up the “Zarevand” penname in the mid-1920s in the U.S. for the writing of the book United and Independent Turania (Միացեալ, Անկախ Թուրանիա).

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SEISMIC HISTORIES IN NADIA OWUSU'S AFTERSHOCKS ~ Wednesday, September 15, 2021 ~ Live on Zoom/YouTube

SEISMIC HISTORIES IN NADIA OWUSU'S AFTERSHOCKS ~ Wednesday, September 15, 2021 ~ Live on Zoom/YouTube

Join Nadia Owusu and Laure Astourian for a conversation on the reverberations of history in Owusu's widely praised memoir Aftershocks (2021).

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UNCOMMON GENEALOGIES: Violence, Belonging and Memory in the Eastern Frontier ~ Friday, September 10, 2021 ~ Live on Zoom

UNCOMMON GENEALOGIES: Violence, Belonging and Memory in the Eastern Frontier ~ Friday, September 10, 2021 ~ Live on Zoom

Dr. Sengul asks how an analytical focus on (male) gender and methodological orientation in genealogy may help render connective formations and experiences of political violence in these borderlands beyond the limits of historicism and/or methodological nationalism.

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