Vahé Tachjian will deliver a talk on Armenian daily life from 1908 to 1915 at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 in Room 191 of Fresno State’s University Business Center.
The lecture will open the Armenian Studies Program’s Spring Lecture Series and will focus on Armenians in the Kharpert/Harput region of the Ottoman Empire. It looks at first-hand accounts from the region during the years leading up to the Armenian Genocide.
Tachjian is the director of the Houshamadyan Project, which looks at the French occupation of Cilicia, Syria and Lebanon between the world wars, Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and refugee problems in the Middle East.
Contact Rory Appleton: (559) 441-6015, rappleton@fresnobee.com