FACULTY OF ORIENTAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Oxford Armenian Studies
Forced Assimilation as a structural element of the Armenian Genocide
A lecture by Prof. Taner Akçam (Clark University)
Chair: Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian (Oriental Institute)
Tuesday, 3 June 2014, 4:00 PM
Mary Hyde Eccles room, Pembroke College
Taner Akçam holds the Kaloosdian and Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. A historian and sociologist, Prof. Akçam has lectured and published extensively, with numerous books and articles in English, French, German and Turkish, including A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Metropolitan Books); Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials (with Vahakn Dadrian) (Berghahn Books). For his most recent book, The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton), Prof. Akçam was awarded the prestigious “Hourani Book Prize” (2013) by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
For further information about this lecture, please contact Dr Hratch Tchilingirian, email: hratch.tchilingirian AT orinst.ox.ac.uk; for Armenian Studies, please contact Prof. Theo van Lint, Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies, email: theo.vanlint AT orinst.ox.ac.uk.
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Date: TUESDAY, 3 JUNE, 2014
Time: 16:00 – 17:30
Cost: Free
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