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

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 9, 2019** 

 03:00PM - 05:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

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

   ![Crimean Tatars](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/cmes/files/230731.jpg?itok=e6SLq-Qp) 

 

 **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](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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- [ History ](/research-field/history)
- [ Turkey ](/research-region/turkey)
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