The next meeting of the Workshop for Armenian/Turkish
Scholarship (WATS) will convene at New York University, May
14-16. This will be the fifth meeting of this important
undertaking.
The three day gathering will start with a session open to the
public, from 7:00-9:00 PM in the Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver
Center, 100 Washington Square East, 1st Floor.
Organized by Professors Fatma Müge Göçek (Sociology, University
of Michigan), Gerard Libaridian (History, Michigan), and
Ronald Grigor Suny (History, Michigan), previous meetings of
WATS were held at the University of Chicago (2000), University
of Michigan (2002), the University of Minnesota (2004) and in
Salzburg, Austria last year. The fifth meeting is being hosted
by New York University and the organizers are joined by Prof.
Paul Boghossian ( Philosophy, NYU). The theme of the workshop
this year is “The Boundaries of Genocide: Intentions,
Histories, Peoples.”
“Dialogue is an ideal that often ends up with one side talking
and the other appearing to listen,” commented Prof. Ronald Suny.
“In discussions about the Armenian Genocide of 1915, neither
side – Armenian or Turkish – seemed to understand, or even hear,
what the other was saying. How could the deportation and
massacre of hundreds of thousands of people be metastasized into
a civil war that never occurred? How could one blame the
victims for their own deaths? This workshop has been one of the
most exciting and productive scholarly initiatives in the last
five years that has brought Turkish, Armenian, and other
historians and social scientists together to present research
and talk about the fate of the Armenians and other minorities in
the last years of the Ottoman Empire.”
The evening session on May 14 will serve to acquaint the
general public with the work of this initiative. In addition to
introductory comments by Prof. Boghossian and officials of the
host institution, Professors Gocek, Suny and Libaridian will
present reports on various aspects of WATS and answer questions.
The public is invited.
For more information write to:
Email: glibarid@umich.edu
Prof. Gerard Libaridian
Department of History
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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