Three Apples Fell from Heaven: An Exploration of Armenian Identities in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman World

Date: 

Monday, April 20, 2015, 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present A Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide

with

Rachel Goshgarian, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Lafayette College
A 17th-century Armenian (Dis)Placement: Deacon Mikayel of Kaffa/Միքայէլ Կաֆֆացի (d.c. 1670) and his Armenian and Turkish Texts

Nora Lessersohn, History and CMES, Harvard University
Sources of Ownership, Forces of Dispossession: The Memoir of Hovhannes Cherishian/Յովհաննէս Չիրիշեան of Marash (1886-1967)

Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History, MIT
Speaking Feminist while Armenian in Post-Genocide Turkey: Hayganush Mark/Հայկանոյշ Մառք (1885-1966)

Moderator: Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies, Department of History, Harvard University

ContactNora Lessersohn