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Author and Lawyer Fethiye Cetin to Speak about the Challenges Facing Islamized Armenians in Turkey

Alumni Lounges (SC156-157) 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Growing up, Fethiye Çetin had no reason to suspect that she had other than Turkish Muslim roots, until one day her maternal grandmother, Seher, revealed to her that she was by birth an Armenian Christian, who had been taken away from her mother on a death march in the course of the Armenian Genocide. This […]

2016 RECIPIENT OF PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY TO VISIT RAMAPO COLLEGE

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

On October 6 in the Trustees Pavilion (4 and 7 p.m.), Peter Balakian, the recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, will present a lecture and a reading. In addition to his poetry that concerns a wide variety of topics, he will discuss his prose work that chiefly deals with the Armenian Genocide. The […]

2016 RECIPIENT OF PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY TO VISIT RAMAPO COLLEGE

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

On October 6 in the Trustees Pavilion (4 and 7 p.m.), Peter Balakian, the recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, will present a lecture and a reading. In addition to his poetry that concerns a wide variety of topics, he will discuss his prose work that chiefly deals with the Armenian Genocide. The […]

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 book Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey (Stanford University Press, 2016) . The book follows the trajectories of the survivors of the […]

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 […]

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 in Switzerland, will discuss his recently published book, Talaat Pasha Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide (Princeton University Press, 2018) The Center for Holocaust and […]

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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 Approved Workshop for Certification Renewal (5 Hours) Assists in Adopting and Implementing N.J. Core Curriculum Standards Language Arts 3.1 Social Studies 6.1­6.3 World Languages 7.1 and 7.2 Register Here: https://bit.ly/2vm2IJo Program 8:30-9 a.m. Registration and Refreshments 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Teaching Film with Testimony I: The Promise:  Introduction of Resources and […]

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The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918

Virtually via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b6Y3DbzWT3qvD33O5OLtcw

On October 27 at 7 P.M., E.T., noted scholar Khatchig Mouradian will discuss his new book, The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitariansm in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 (Michigan State University Press, 2021) with Center Advisory Board member Ani Tchaghlasian who also serves on the National Board of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). Mouradian […]

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