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‘Remnants’ Armenian Genocide Lecture on April 11 Presented by Tekeyan of Boston
April 11 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
In Remnants, Elyse Semerdjian explores how the Ottoman Armenian communal body was dis-membered, disfigured, and later re-membered by the survivor community. Gathering individual memories and archival fragments from Ottoman, Armenian, and humanitarian archives, she traces the histories of women and children rescued during and after the war to center the quietest voices in the historical record. Using gender and feminist theories of genocide, she will explain why sexual violence and atrocity was a central feature of the Ottoman assault on Armenians. The April 11 talk concludes with the genesis of Armenian Geno pilgrimages to the deserts of Dayr al-Zur where many Armenians perished and whose human remains are collected and incorporated into rituals and memorials in Syria and Lebanon.
Elyse Semerdjian is Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University.