Book Discussion: Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics, and Aesthetics of 1915

Critical Approaches to Genocide: History, Politics, and Aesthetics of 1915 brings together the multifarious publications of the scholars in the network “Workshop of Armenian-Turkish Scholarship (WATS)”.

The book will be published in August and the following book discussion will be significant in contextualising the book within contemporary debates in memory, trauma and genocide studies.

Moderator: 

Tali Nates is the Director/ Founder of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and chair of the South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation (SAHGF).

Presenters:

Elyse Semerdjian is currently Professor of History at Whitman College and the incoming Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at the Strassler Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University.

Elisa Von Joeden-Forgey is an Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College and the Co-President of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention.

Andrea Petö is a Professor in Gender Studies at the Central European University and a Doctor of Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Hülya Adak is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at Sabancı University and works on trauma and memory studies.

Fatma Müge Göçek who was born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey is a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan where she works on violence and social change in the Middle East and the world at large.

Arlene Avakian is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and author of Lion Woman’s Legacy: An Armenian American Memoir among other publications.

David Kazanjian is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

Egemen Özbek is the Academic Coordinator at the Academy in Exile at Universität Duisburg-Essen.

Deanna Cachoian-Schanz  is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania.

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