(PDF) (DOC) (JPG)March 13, 2014

(MAHWAH, NJ) – Historian Ugur Ümit Üngör will discuss “Confiscation and Destruction: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property” at Ramapo College of New Jersey on Thursday, April 3 from 1 to 2 p.m. in the Alumni Lounges of the Robert A. Scott Student Center, Alumni Lounge (SC-138).

Dr. Üngör will discuss the mass sequestration of Armenian property by the Young Turk regime during the 1915 Armenian genocide. He will look at the emergence of Turkish economic nationalism, offering insight into the economic ramifications of the genocidal process, and describing how the plunder was organized on the ground, especially how local elites became beneficiaries of state-sanctioned robbery.

Ugur Ümit Üngör earned his Ph.D. in 2009 (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam. In 2008-09, he was a Lecturer in International History at the Department of History of the University of Sheffield. In 2009-2010, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for War Studies of University College Dublin. Currently, he is a Lecturer at the Department of History at Utrecht University and at the Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam.

His main areas of interest are state and nation formation, with a particular focus on mass violence. His most recent publications include Confiscation and Destruction: The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property (Continuum, 2011) and the award-winning, The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950 (Oxford University Press, 2011).

Apart from his academic life, Dr. Üngör writes satirical columns and essays about cosmopolitan life on and across political and cultural boundaries. He places current global issues and themes in serious and ironic perspectives.

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Ramapo College of New Jersey is the state’s premier public liberal arts college and is committed to academic excellence through interdisciplinary and experiential learning, and international and intercultural understanding. The comprehensive college is situated among the beautiful Ramapo Mountains, is within commuting distance to New York City, was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful College Campuses in America by CondeNast Traveler, and boasts the best on-campus housing in New Jersey per Niche.com. Established in 1969, Ramapo College offers bachelor’s degrees in the arts, business, data science, humanities, social sciences and the sciences, as well as in professional studies, which include business, education, nursing and social work. In addition, the College offers courses leading to teacher certification at the elementary and secondary levels, and offers graduate programs leading to master’s degrees in Accounting, Applied Mathematics, Business Administration, Contemporary Instructional Design, Computer Science, Creative Music Technology, Data Science, Educational Leadership, Nursing, Social Work and Special Education, as well as a Doctor of Nursing Practice.

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