APRIL 14, 2009 • Genocide Commemoration (Tufts University, Medford, Mass.)
The Tufts Day of Remembrance is sponsored by Tufts University, the Darakjian-Jafarian Chair in Armenian History, the Department of History, and NAASR. This year, it features a lecture by Dr. Claire Mouradian of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, France, entitled “The American Jews and the Armenian Genocide.” Mouradian is the first to publish the full story of one of the founders and most active members of the Committee on Armenian Atrocities, Rabbi Stephen Wise (“Rabbi of the people,” “Apostle of the Armenians”). As a member of the first American commission in charge of investigating the atrocities committed against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Wise ardently defended the creation of an independent Armenian state, as well as the creation of an independent Jewish state at the Conference of Paris in 1919. Mouradian is the author of numerous articles about the Caucasus and the Soviet Union. She is also a founding member and the current chair of the Société des Etudes Arméniennes. Begins at 7 p.m. in the Goddard Chapel on Tufts’ Medford campus; a reception will follow in the Coolidge Room in nearby Ballou Hall. For more information, contact NAASR (617-489-1610, hq@naasr.org) or email Prof. McCabe at ina.mccabe@tufts.edu.
