| A History of Genocide: Memory, Continuity and Defiance |
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In conversation with Ara Sarafian (UK), Director of the Gomidas Institute in London Sat 10 November 3pm Laboratory Theatre Space Admission free This talk will give an academic perspective on the official Turkish denial of the Armenian genocide, with a case study of a fabricated petition sent to the British Parliament by Turkish Parliamentarians in 2005, claiming that the Armenian genocide thesis was simply forged by British propagandists during World War I. Ara Sarafian is an archival historian and the director of the Gomidas Institute, an independent research centre and publisher of books related to the modern Armenian experience. His academic specialisation is late Ottoman and modern Armenian history. He is best known today for his work on the Armenian Genocide of 1915 through publications such as the critical edition of the 1916 British Parliamentary Blue Book The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1916. He conducts frequent archival research in Turkey regarding projects related to Armenians and is well known in the Turkish and Armenian press. www.gomidas.org |