Panel Two: Armenian Genocide – Politics and Precedents

Presenter Information

Clark University

Start Date

10-4-2015 11:00 AM

End Date

10-4-2015 12:45 PM

Description

Moderator: Christian Axboe Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)

• Edip Gölbaşı (Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Turkey and Simon Fraser University, Canada)
  The 1895-1896 Armenian Massacres in the Ottoman Eastern Provinces: A Prelude to Extermination or a Revolutionary Provocation?
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• Urban Jaksa (University of York, United Kingdom)
  Geopolitics of Genocide: Comparing the Ottoman and Russian Empires’ Ethnic Cleansing Policies against Armenians, Greeks, and Circassians in the Late 19^th and Early 20^th Centuries
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• Varak Ketsamanian (University of Chicago)
  Genocide as a Colonial Tool: The Formation of the Armenian Legion
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• David Leupold (Humboldt University, Germany and Erasmus Mundus Grantee at Eurasian University, Armenia)
  Genocide Memorialization beyond the Ethno-National Divide: Bridging Memories of Armenians, Kurds and Turks in Van, Mush, and Sasun
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