17 04 2007 - The Genocide of the Armenians and Assyrians

Massacres and Resistance: The Genocide of the Armenians and Assyrians Based on New Archival Evidence
A Lecture by - Dr. David Gaunt
Professor of History, Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden
This lecture will be based on Dr. Gaunt’s recently- published book Massacres, Resistance, Protectors:
Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I (Gorgias Press, 2006), which will be on sale and available for signing by the author.
Gaunt will detail how the persecution of Armenian and Assyrian Christian minorities was organized on the national and local levels in places where Armenian and Assyrian populations overlap. Case studies involve the Turkish occupation of Urmia and its surrounding villages, the Assyrian tribes in Hakkari,the massacres of Armenians in Diyarbekir and Mardin,the massacres of Syriacs in the hundreds of villages in Tur Abdin, the successful armed resistance mounted by the villagers of Azakh and Ayn Wardo, and the victory of Antranik’s Armenian and Assyrian volunteers at the battle of Dilman.

Gaunt’s work is based on unique access to hundreds of documents in the archives of Istanbul and Ankara, as well as documents of Iranian, Russian, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, French, and German origin. Most of these documents have never been published before. In addition, nearly forty persons were interviewed about their experiences of the war period. The Turkish documents confirm events and decisions of what was believed to have happened, but for which evidence has been lacking. In some ways the new documents fill in the blank spaces in the history of genocide.

The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) and the Assyrian American National Federation (AANF) are the organizing sponsors of Dr. Gaunt's lecture tour, with the unprecedented collaboration of the following Assyrian and Armenian civic and academic organizations:
(Listed in alphabetical order)
• Advancement of Education Foundation
• Analysis Research and Planning for Armenia (ARPA Institute)
• Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History at UCLA
• Armenian Student Association at UCLA
• Armenian Student Association at Stanford
• Armenian Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley
• Armenian Studies Program, California State University, Fresno
• Assyrian Academic Society – Bay Area Chapter
• Assyrian Aid Society of America – Central Valley Chapter
• Assyrian Aid Society of America–Southern California Chapter
• Assyrian American Association of Modesto
• Assyrian American Association of Southern California
• Assyrian American Civic Club of Turlock

• Assyrian Foundation of America
• Assyrian Student Alliance at UC Berkeley
• Assyrian Student Association at UCLA
• Mesopotamian Museum
• Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies at UCLA
• Zinda Magazine


SCHEDULE OF LECTURES
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Thurs., May 3, 7:30 p.m.: Stanford University,
Tresidder Union, Cypress Rm., 2nd floor, 459
Lagunita Dr., Stanford, CA


Fri., May 4, 7:00 p.m.: University of California,
Berkeley, Dwinelle Hall, Room 219, Berkeley,
CA


Sun., May 6, 4:00 p.m.: California State
University, Stanislaus, Demergasso-Bava Hall, Room
166, 801 West Monte Vista Avenue, Turlock,
CA


Tues., May 8, 7:30 p.m.: California State
University, Fresno, University Business Center, Alice
Peters Aud., Rm. 191


Weds., May 9, 7:30 p.m.: Assyrian American
Association of Southern California Hall, 5901
Cahuenga Blvd., North Hollywood, CA


Thurs., May 10, 7:00 p.m.: University of
California, Los Angeles, Moore Hall, Room 100, Los
Angeles, CA


Fri., May 11, 7:30 p.m.: Merdinian Armenian
Christian School, 13330 Riverside Drive, Sherman
Oaks, CA

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