USC INSTITUTE OF ARMENIAN STUDIES
On Wednesday November 5, 2014, Professor MügeGöçekof the University of Michigan spoke to a lunch crowd of USC students, faculty and members of the community about the roots and context of her most recent book – Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians 1789-2009.
***
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 17, 2014
USC INSTITUTE OF ARMENIAN STUDIES
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, USA
Contact: SalpiGhazarian/Director
213.821.3943
What Happened and Why – The Denial of State Violence
On Wednesday November 5, 2014, Professor MügeGöçekof the University of Michigan spoke to a lunch crowd of USC students, faculty and members of the community about the roots and context of her most recent book – Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians 1789-2009.
Professor Donald E. Miller, Leonard K. Firestone Professor of Religion and Executive Director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at USC joined Dr. Göçek in conversation. He began, much as she had begun the book, with a discussion of her personal reasons for tackling such a vast topic. She explained that it was important to understand not just why the centuries-long denial (beginning with violence perpetrated even prior to the genocidal acts of 1915) persisted, but also how it was sustained. She chose to examine the memoirs of public officials, officers, academics, ordinary citizens, published in Turkish, in Turkey, and available to the population at large. Through passages in those memoirs, she was able to study the motivation and the means of sustained denial.
Professor Göçek’s talk was the second in a series initiated by the USC Institute of Armenian Studies. The first featured Rev. Dr. Paul Haidostian, President of Haigazian University, in conversation with USC Professor Laurie Brand, head of the Middle East Studies Program. The third talk in the series featured Syrian-Armenian journalist HaroutEkmanian.
Established in 2005, the USC Institute of Armenian Studies supports multidisciplinary scholarship to re-define, explore and study the complex issues that make up the contemporary Armenian experience – from post-Genocide to the developing Republic of Armenia to the evolving Diaspora. The Institute encourages research, publications and public service, and benefits from communication technologies to link together the global academic and Armenian communities.
This event can be viewed at: https://capture.usc.edu/Mediasite/Play/44fb6753d1d443f3af777360a8758a4f1d
Yorumlar kapatıldı.