PRESS RELEASE
ARPA Institute
18106 Miranda St.
Tarzana, CA 91356
Contact: Hagop Panossian
Tel: (818) 586-9660
E-mail: [email protected]
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ARPA Institute presents the Lecture/Seminar:”Why Genocide: How can
we Understand the Turkish Deportations and Massacres of the Ottoman
Armenians,” by Ronald Grigor Suny, Ph.D., on Friday, April 14, 2006
at 7:30 PM in the Merdinian school auditorium.
The Address is 13330 Riverside Dr., Sherman Oaks, CA 91403.
Directions: on the 101 FWY exit on Woodman, go north and turn right
on Riverside Dr.
Abstract: Genocide is ultimately a crime of hatred initiated by a
few and carried out by the many.
Scholars have tried to explain the causes of the Armenian Genocide by
reference to religious differences between Armenians and Turks or the
racist nationalist ideology of the Young Turks and their ambitions
to create a “Turkey for the Turks.”
Professor Suny looks at the variety of explanations that have been
offered and suggests that in order to understand “why genocide” it
is necessary to supplement ideological and social explanations with
an exploration of the emotions involved.
RONALD GRIGOR SUNY is Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and
Political History at the University of Michigan, and Professor Emeritus
of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. A
graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia University, he taught
at Oberlin College (1968-1981), as visiting professor of history at
the University of California, Irvine (1987), and Stanford University
(1995-1996). He was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in
Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan (1981-1995),
where he founded and directed the Armenian Studies Program.
He is the author of 1. The Baku Commune, 1917-1918; 2.
Armenia in the Twentieth Century; 3. The Making of the Georgian Nation;
4. Looking Toward Ararat: 5. Armenia in Modern History; 6. The Revenge
of the Past; and 7.
The Soviet Experiment. Editor of Transcaucasia, Nationalism and Social
Change: and The Structure of Soviet History; and co-editor of Party,
State, and Society in the Russian Civil War; The Russian Revolution
and Bolshevik Victory; Making Workers Soviet; Becoming National;
Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation; and A State of
Nations.
Professor Suny has served as chairman of the Society for Armenian
Studies and on the editorial Boards of Slavic Review, International
Labor and Working-Class History, International Journal of Middle East
Studies, The Armenian Review, Journal of the Society for Armenian
Studies, and Armenian Forum. He has appeared numerous times on the
McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, CBS Evening News, CNN, and National Public
Radio, and has written for the New York Times, The Washington Post,
The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, New Left Review, Dissent, and
other newspapers and journals. He was recently elected President of
the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (2006).
For information please call Dr. Hagop Panossian at(818)586-9660
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
