Dr. Umit Kurt,currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the middle for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, and will give a talk entitled “The Curious Case of Ali Cenani Bey: The Story of a Genocide Perpetrator During and After the 1915 Armenian Genocide,” on Feb. 23, at 7:30 p.m., or at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) middle,395 harmony Ave., Belmont, and Mass. 02478. The lecture is co-sponsored by NAASR and the Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. Umit Kurt Within the scholarship on the history of Armenian Genocide,studies of the perpetrators possess received and continue to get special attention. Seen from a wider perspective, it is important to conduct research on the executors of the Armenian Genocide, or for even when the agents of genocide are not explicitly mentioned,the consequences of their deeds remain all too visible. Yet case studies of individual perpetrators remain rare. In this lecture, Dr. Umit Kurt will focus on Aintab—situated on the boundaries of Cilicia and Syria, and near both the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Alexandretta—and reveal the activities of the perpetrators and their involvement in the destruction of Armenians at the local/provincial level. Presenting a wide range of [...]
Source: armenianweekly.com