Persecution and Persistence: 75th Anniversary of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars in Historical Context

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a Crimean Tatar Studies Lecture Series with

Brian Glyn Williams
Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Huseyin Oylupinar
Turkish-Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar Studies Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Hanna Abakunova
Mihaychuk Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

This panel will be followed by the screening of the docudrama Haytarma (2013): https://bit.ly/2LkgZhk at CMES.

Program
"The Sultan's Frontier Warriors. The Military Role of the Crimean Tatars in Ottoman Wars in Persia, Russia, Ukraine and the Balkans"
Brian Glyn Williams, Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, author of Crimean Tatars: From Soviet Genocide to Putin's Conquest

"Annexation of the Crimean Khanate in Russian Sources: 1774 and After"
Huseyin Oylupinar, Turkish-Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar Studies Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

"Deportations During the Second World War in Ukraine: Crimean Tatar and Jewish Experience in Comparison"
Hanna Abakunova, Mihaychuk Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Chair: Lubomyr Hajda, Associate, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Refreshments will be served.

Contact: Liz Flanagan