03 04 2007 - THE GENOCIDE OF ARMENIANS AND ASSYRIANS

UCLA AEF LIST--PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING JOINTLY SPONSORED LECTURE. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LIST MEMBERS ARE URGED TO ATTEND THE TALK AT THE ASSYRIAN CENTER IN NORTH HOLLYWOOD TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ASSYRIAN AND ARMENIAN SHARED AND DIVERGENT EXPERIENCES. PLEASE NOTE THAT PROF. GAUNT WILL ALSO SPEAK AT UCLA, 100 MOORE HALL, ON MAY 10 AT 7 P.M., AND FOR ARPA AT THE MERDINIAN ARMENIAN SCHOOL IN VAN NUYS ON MAY 11 AT 7:30 P.M. ALL EVENTS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AT NO CHARGE.

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THE ASSYRIAN AMERICAN N ATIONAL F EDERATION
THE N ATIONAL A SSOCIATION FOR A RMENIAN S TUDIES AND R ESEARCH THE A SSYRIAN A MERICAN A SSOCIATION OF S OUTHERN C ALIFORNIA ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAIR IN MODERN ARMENIAN HISTORY AT UCLA
AND ASSYRIAN A ID S OCIETY OF A MERICA--SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER

PROUDLY P RESENT

MASSACRES AND RESISTANCE:
THE GENOCIDE OF ARMENIANS AND ASSYRIANS
BASED ON NEW ARCHIVAL EVIDENCE

A Lecture by
Dr. David Gaunt
Professor of History, Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden

Wednesday, May 9, 2007
7:30 p.m.
The Assyrian Center
5901 Cahuenga Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91601
For information: (818) 506-7577

Free Admission Book signing following lecture

This lecture is based on Dr. Gaunt’s recently-published book Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I (Gorgias Press, 2006).

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 Antranig’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.

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