Saturday, 7 April 2012

Presentation on Turkish Seizure of Armenian Property 4/30/12

Dear Friends,
We think this event will be of interest to you, and we hope that you will be able to attend.

Confiscation and Colonization:
The Young Turk Seizure of Armenian Property

A public presentation by author
Prof. Ugur Üngör
The Genocide Education Project will also give a brief presentation about
its work bringing genocide education into the U.S. public schools.

Hosted by:
The Genocide Education Project

Date/Time:
Monday, April 30, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.

Charge:
Free of charge

Location:
Vaspouragan Hall at St.Gregory Armenian Church
51 Commonwealth Avenue, San Francisco, CA

Online:

Flyer (PDF):
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From 1913 to 1950, successive Turkish governments subjected the eastern
provinces of the Ottoman Empire to a violent policy of ethnic homogenization.
Based on a decade of research on a range of unexamined records, Üngör
will demonstrate that the Armenian genocide was part and parcel of this wider
process. He will offer insights into the economic ramifications of the genocide
and describe how the plunder was organized on the ground. He will conclude
that this violent process destroyed historical regions and emptied multicultural
cities, but also cleared the way for the modern Turkish nation state.

Prof. Üngör is Assistant Professor of History at Utrecht University in the Netherlands
and a regular contributor to the Armenian Weekly newspaper. He studied sociology
and history in North America and Europe, and received a Master’s Degree in
Holocaust and Genocide Studies from the University of Amsterdam. His PhD thesis,
published by Oxford University Press is titled, The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation
and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950.

Sincerely,

Armenian National Committee
San Francisco Bay Area
51 Commonwealth Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118
(415) 387-3433

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