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RECOVERING ARMENIA: THE LIMITS OF BELONGING IN POST-GENOCIDE TURKEY

Trustees Pavilion (PAV1) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, NJ, United States

On November 29 at 7:15 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion of Ramapo College, Dr. Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak about her recent […]

Gumpert Teachers’ Workshop–The Exploitation of Women in Genocide: How to Bring a Delicate Subject into the Classroom

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 3) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, NJ, United States

In the light of the many accounts of sexual vulnerability, abuse and rape that occurred during the genocides in Darfur, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, we have come to accept that sexual violence is an intrinsic feature of genocide. No longer is the issue a taboo. Survivors, witnesses, and scholars have become less reticent to discuss […]

Becoming Aram: The life and Legacy of a Revolutionary Statesman

Trustees Pavilion (PAV 3) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, NJ, United States

Dr. Khatchig Mouradian, the Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian Visiting Professor at Columbia University, will examine the tumultuous journey of the revolutionary turned statesman Aram Manougian, whose struggle against the oppressors of his own people spanned two declining empires, and who is also remembered as the founder the First Republic of Armenia (1918-1920). Through a wealth […]

Screening of Film About Turkish Armenian Identity in Context of 100th Commemoration of Genocide

Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounges (SC157-158) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Naré Mkrtchyan will screen her film,“The Other Side of Home,” an eye-opening account of the legacy of the 1915 Armenian genocide by the Turkish government. on Tuesday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m. in The Robert A. Scott Student Center (Alumni Lounges, SC 157-158) under the auspices of the Armenian Students Association of Ramapo College, the Armenian National […]

Talaat Pasha Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide

Truistees Pavilion (PAV 1-2) Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Dr. Hans-Lukas Kieser, associate professor in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle in Australia and adjunct professor of history at the University of Zurich […]

Free

Workshop on Teaching about Genocide with Testimony and Film

Friends Hall (SC219) 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mawah, NJ

TIME: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 9 a.m.-3 p.m. PLACE: Robert A. Scott Student Center Friends Hall (SC219) Ramapo College of New Jersey 505 Ramapo Valley Road (Rt. 202) Mahwah, NJ 07430-1623  FREE OF CHARGE –Breakfast and Lunch Included […]

Free