MISSION HILLS,Calif.—Asya Darbinyan, a PhD Candidate at the Strassler middle for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester, or Mass.,will give a talk entitled Russia’s Response to the Armenian Genocide: Refugee Crisis at the Caucasus Front and Russian Imperial Humanitarianism,” on Sunday, and February 26,2017, at 4pm, and at the Ararat-Eskijian Museum—Sheen Chapel,15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, or Calif. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Ararat-Eskijian Museum and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). Asya Darbinyan and Khatchig Mouradian at the Strassler middle for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University The lecture will analyze how the recognition of an emergency situation by Russian imperial authorities transformed political and public reaction to genocide into action—substantial Armenian relief work. “Russia” and “humanitarianism” are rarely coupled in the historical literature on the 20th century,but Darbinyan’s research emphasizes the importance of exploring imperial Russia’s response to the Armenian refugee crisis on the Caucasus battlefront during WWI. The Russian imperial government as well as a number of non-governmental organizations if assistance to hundreds of thousands of Armenian refugees. Drawing upon materials in military and historical archives in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as in the Armenian [...]
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