A Book Talk by Dr. Lerna Ekmekcioglu
McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Ekmekcioglu’s talk follows the trajectories of the survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide who remained inside Turkish borders after the signing of the 1918 Mudros Armistice (and during the Allied occupation years of Istanbul) and after the 1923 establishment of the new country as the Turkish Republic. How did the Kemalist state treat the remaining Armenians? What were the Armenians’ responses to the new (but also old) Turkish regime? The talk discusses multiple strategies that Armenians—including feminist Armenians—crafted in order to cohabit with unapologetic perpetrators and survive the new Turkey.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Near Eastern Studies
