An International Conference “Empire, Politics, and War: The Armenian Genocide within the Context of the Ottoman Empire”

The California State University, Fresno Armenian Studies Program

cordially invites you to

An International Conference

“Empire, Politics, and War:
The Armenian Genocide within the Context
of the Ottoman Empire”

Friday, March 18, 2016 • Saturday, March 19, 2016

Opening Reception Friday, March 18-6:30PM-7:30PM

 

Session I-Friday, March 18, 2016 • 7:30PM

University Business Center, Room 191 Auditorium, Fresno State

 

Welcome-Dr. Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval, Dean of the College of Arts & Humanities

Keynote address– “Armenian Genocide Studies: Development as a Field,

Historiographical Appraisal, and the Road Ahead”

Dr. Stephan Astourian, Director, Armenian Studies Program, UC Berkeley

 

“The Hunchakian Party and the Assassination Attempts against Maksudzade Simon Efendi and Khoren Ashekian”

Varak Ketsamanian, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago

 

“From Adana to Bolis: Zabel Yesayan’s Letters to Tigran Yesayan in 1909”

Anna Aleksanyan, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Center, Clark University

 

“War and Genocide: Rethinking WWI and the Path to the Armenian Catastrophe”

Dr. Yektan Turkyilmaz, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin

 

Session II-Saturday, March 19, 2016 • 10:30AM-1:00PM

Smittcamp Alumni House, Fresno State

Panel Chair: Dr. Sergio La Porta, Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies

 

“An Armenian Officer in the Ottoman Army during the Genocide:

Memoirs of Kalusd Surmenian”

Yaşar Tolga Cora, University of Chicago

 

“Concentration Camps during the Armenian Genocide: Power, Collaboration,

and Resistance”

Dr. Khatchig Mouradian, Rutgers University

 

Coffee Break

 

“Survival Struggles of Aintab Deportees in Salamiyya: Testimonial

Accounts of Genocide Survivors Krikor Bogharian and Der Nerses Tavukjian”

Ümit Kurt, Clark University

 

“A Survivor’s Memoir: Siranoosh My Child”

Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian, California State University, Fresno

 

Organized by the Armenian Studies Program, Fresno State

 

Co-Sponsored by the Society for Armenian Studies

College of Arts & Humanities, Fresno State

 

Supported by

The Thomas A. Koouyumjian Family Foundation

The Leon S. Peters Foundation

 

Free Admission and Free Parking

 

fresnostate.edu/armenianstudies • 559.278.2669

 

An Unprecedented Commitment and Dedication by the U. S. That Helped Rescue and Empower A Generation of Armenian Survivors Between 1915-1930

Opening Presentation and Video

 

• Noon-1:00PM

Second Floor, Madden Library, Room 2206, Fresno State

Free admission. Parking in Lots P30 and P31

with parking code, 273625.

Entrance at Shaw and Barton Aves.