ARMENIAN INSTITUTE

ILLUSTRATED LECTURE

KHARPERT AND ITS GOLDEN PLAIN

A Case Study in the Transformation of Armenian Community Institutions, 1871–78

By Ara Sarafian

Wednesday, 12 May 2010, at 7:30 pm

Brunei Gallery, SOAS, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG

(Tube: Russell Square)

Admission: £3; Free for Friends of Armenian Institute

Sarafian will discuss the transformation of the Armenian millet in the Kharpert plain following the Ottoman Armenian National Constitution of 1864. He will look at the larger processes that were at work in communal development, as well as the specific changes in Kharpert.

Ara Sarafian is an archival scholar specialising in late Ottoman and modern Armenian history. He has worked in various archives, including Ottoman archive records in Turkey. Over the past years he has engaged the Armenian issue inside Turkey and recently organised a special conference in Istanbul on the Adana Massacres of 1909. His publications include several documentary accounts of the Armenian Genocide, including a critical edition of the 1916 British Parliamentary Blue Book, The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-16. Sarafian is currently the director of the Gomidas Institute in London.

MY DEAR BROTHER: ARMENIAN LIFE IN TURKEY 100 YEARS AGO

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The Armenian Institute is grateful to the Heritage Lottery Fund for supporting this and other forthcoming events under the project: My Dear Brother: Armenian Life in Turkey 100 Years Ago.

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