WORCESTER, Mass. (A.W.)—On Fri., April 9 at 8 p.m., a panel discussion on “The Armenian Genocide: 95 Years Later Academic and Personal Reflections” will take place in Clark University’s Tilton Hall at the Higgins University Center in Worcester. The featured panelists are Prof. Margaret L. Anderson (UC Berkeley), Prof. Richard Hovannisian (UCLA), Dr. Nazan Maksudyan (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin), and Dr. Ugur Ungor (University College Dublin).
The event is co-sponsored and organized by Dr. Taner Akcam, the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide (CHGS), Clark University; Dr. Eric Weitz, Distinguished McKnight University Professor of History and Arsham and Charlotte Ohanessian Professor at the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota; and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR).
Margaret L. Anderson earned her Ph.D. at Brown University and her B.A. at Swarthmore College. Her research has focused on political cultures and, most recently, on the relationship between the German and Ottoman governments and societies from 1894 to 1933. In March 2007, her article “Down in Turkey Far Away: Human Rights, The Armenian Massacres, and Orientalism in Wilhelmine Germany” was published in the Journal of Modern History.
Richard Hovannisian is the chairman of the Armenian Education Foundation in modern Armenian history. Hovannisian received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of California Berkeley, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, and has labored extensively for the advancement of Armenian studies.
Nazan Maksudyan received her Ph.D. in history from the Sabanci University. Her dissertation was titled “Hearing the Voiceless, Seeing the Invisible: Orphans and Destitute Children as Actors of Social, Economic, and Political History in 19th-Century Ottoman Empire.” She has taught courses at Bogazici and Sabanci universities in Ottoman and European history.
Ugur Ungor is a lecturer in international history, including mass violence and genocide, nationalism, and the (post-) Ottoman world. He has studied sociology and history at the universities of Groningen, Utrecht, Toronto, and Amsterdam, where he received his M.A. in Holocaust and genocide studies, and then his Ph.D. His research and writings have focused on mass violence, specifically on the Rwandan and Armenian Genocides. His current research includes an exploration of the nature and ideology of the Young Turks, a study on cultural genocide, and an examination of the relationship between violence, victimization, and vengeance.
For more information, contact Dr. Tatyana Macaulay (508-793-7764, tmacaulay@clarku.edu) or visit www.clarku.edu/departments/holocaust/chgsconference/Armenian/Welcome.html.
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