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Taner Akcam will talk about his new book in New York

Taner Akçam will talk about his new book "From Empire to
Republic:Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide"
and sign it in this
event sponsored by the MIDDLE EAST & MIDDLE EASTERN AMERICAN CENTER in
CUNY-Graduate Center
and Co-sponsored by the Zoryan Institute (Toronto).
Admission is free and books will be available for purchase.

Dr. Akçam will examine the relationship between Turkey’s
transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic in the opening decades of the 20th century, the
Armenian Genocide of 1915, and the process of democratization in Turkey today. He will
analyze the socio-political and historical factors behind that complex and crucial history, and
provide a framework for understanding Turkish nationalism and its on-going relationship
to the Armenian Genocide. Contextualizing the long-term development of Turkey and the
reasons for Turkish silence and denial regarding the Armenian Genocide, Akçam will discuss the
role of the Armenian Genocide in the process of democratization in Turkey today.
Through an exploration of the obstacles to dialogue, he will offer some hope for
reconciliation between the Turkish and Armenian communities.

Taner Akçam is currently Visiting Associate Professor in the
Department of History, University of Minnesota. He was born in the province of Kars-Ardahan in the
northeast of Turkey and became interested in Turkish politics at an early age. In 1977 he settled in Germany as a political refugee. Akçam received his Ph.D. from Hanover
University with a dissertation titled,

Turkish
Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide: On the Background of the Military Tribunals in Istanbul Between 1919 and 1922
. He has since
published five books and half a dozen articles on the topic in Turkish and German. From Empire to Republic was
published in March 2004 by Zed Books, London.



Date:
Friday June 4, 2004,6:30-8:30 pm

Place:
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center City University of New York

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016-4309

Tel: 212-817-7570

Fax:
212-817-1542

Email: MEMEAC@gc.cuny.edu


www.web.gc.cuny.edu/memeac


 


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