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UCLA East Coast lecture series examines Armenian Genocide looted art, restitution
The Armenian Genocide Research Program (AGRP) of the Promise Armenian Institute (PAI) at UCLA is pleased to announce an East Coast lecture series titled “Nazi Looted Art Recovery as a Model for Recovery of AGLA: Armenian Genocide Looted Art,” to take place in early May.
This lecture series, featuring Dr. Taner Akçam and Professor Michael Bazyler, will explore efforts to identify and recover Armenian art looted during the Armenian Genocide — and to establish “Armenian Genocide Looted Art” (AGLA) as both a term and a framework for justice.
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AGLARP is doing the Turks work for them: threatening by intimidation the emptying of museums and collections in America and Europe of Armenian objects and thus removing worldwide awareness of the existence of Armenia and its cultural and historical importance. In Turkey, except for a few misrepresented propaganda examples, there is nothing identified as Armenian in museums located either within the territory of historical Armenia, or within areas historically inhabited by Armenians. AGLARP needs to examine why Turkey has done this, and have some basic self-awareness that its agenda walks hand-in-hand with Turkey’s genocide-denial and cultural genocide agendas. Armenian culture is not some insular “mud-hut” affair – it is inextricably linked in important and revealing ways to wider cultures dating from the classical-era down to the present day and this requires artefacts from Armenia to be held and properly presented in the collections of the world’s museums and galleries.