DR. TANER AKCAM TO GIVE LECTURE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
ArmRadio.am
07.03.2007 15:30
Turkish scholar Dr. Taner Akcam will give a lecture entitled "A
Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish
Responsibility" on Wednesday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m., at Harvard
University’s Center for Government and International Studies. The
lecture will be co-sponsored by the Zoryan Institute for Contemporary
Armenian Research and Documentation, the National Association for
Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), the Harvard Armenian Society,
the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies, and the Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies.
A pioneer among scholars of Turkish origin, Dr. Taner Akcam is the
author of the recently published A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide
and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Metropolitan Books),
a groundbreaking study that makes extensive, unprecedented use of
Ottoman and other sources largely unexamined in English-language
works. Drawing on all the significant evidence – in Turkish military
and court records, parliamentary minutes, eyewitness narratives,
and previous works of scholarship – Akcam has produced a scrupulous
account of Ottoman culpability.
Dr. Akcam is also the author of From Empire to Republic: Turkish
Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide, Dialogue across an International
Divide: Essays towards a Turkish-Armenian Dialogue, as well as numerous
other books and articles in Turkish, German, and English.
