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Sociology-Anthropology and
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Contact: Sima Aprahamian, Ph.D.
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A Session that may be of interest to Armenians

Toronto, May 8-12, 2007 the American Ethnology
& Canadian Anthropology Society are having joint meetings at University of
Toronto.
The theme is "Indigeneities and Cosmopolitanisms".
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The session entitled "Words that trigger fear and representations of fear"
brings together papers that are based on research among survivors of
atrocities, genocide, mass murder, and extreme
violence through an examination of verbal and non-verbal triggers of
memory that incite fear. The panel also has papers that examine
representations of fear in survivor memoirs.

While Victoria Rowe (Chuo University, Japan) will examine the consequences
of State generated fear through a focus of 1915, and the experience of the
Armenian people during the Genocide as it is represented in survivor
accounts, Sima Aprahamian (Concordia University) will examine expressions
of fear in Linda Ghan’s novel Sosi. Sosi, the young woman at the centre of
Linda Ghan’s novel speaking about Armenians living in Turkey after the
Genocide states:"They were a frightened, Mediterranean people. The
remnants of terror. I hated them for their fear. I hated them for my
fear"(Ghan 2005: 134) & yearns to be with people who have never known
fear.

The other papers in this panel include Diane George’s (Carleton
University) discussion of Coetzee’s Holocaust novel Disgrace which
portrays the complexity of species relations between humans and dogs, and
Karin Doerr’s (Concordia University) paper which will explore fear induced
by language memories. The paper will examine how certain German words,
used during the Nazi period as part of the genocidal
vocabulary, have remained etched in the memory of survivors. Thus, a word
can conjure up traumatic, life-treating events that the individuals
experienced in the past.

The session takes place on May 9, 2007
9 AM
FA3 – Panel 5
Session organizer and chair: Sima Aprahamian, Ph.D. (Concordia
University)

At the University of Toronto, Toronto

The session is part of the international symposium on "Fear" which is
taking place during the
joint conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) and
the American Ethnographic Society (AES), hosted by the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Toronto, May 8-12, 2007

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