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Taner Akçam: Confronting Genocide Denial

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Event Date: 06/30/2007
7:00 PM Event Fee: No Fee
Location: Pacific Park Branch Library, 501 S. Pacific Avenue,
Glendale, CA 91204
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What are the personal, moral and political consequences of genocide
denial? Join us for a discussion with Dr. Taner Akçam, a Turkish
historian and author of A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the
Question of Turkish Responsibility.

Using Turkish military and court records, parliamentary minutes,
letters, and eyewitness accounts – Akçam’s research followed the
chain of events leading up to the Armenian Genocide. He also probes
how the perpetrators succeeded in evading responsibility, and Turkey’s
ongoing efforts to do so. The conversation will raise questions about
justice after genocide and what responsibilities individuals, groups
and nations have to confront genocide denial.

Admission is free and open to the public. We expect this event to fill
quickly. Please RSVP today.

About Taner Akçam
Taner Akçam teaches at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide
Studies at the University of Minnesota. Akçam grew up in Turkey,
where he was imprisoned for editing a political publication and
adopted as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International in
1976. He later received political asylum in Germany, where he earned a
PhD from the University of Hannover and worked with the Hamburg
Institute for Social Research on issues concerning the history of
violence and torture in Turkey. Akçam is widely recognized as one
of the first Turkish scholars to write extensively and authoritatively
on the Turkish genocide of the Armenians in the early 20th century. He
is the author of ten scholarly works of history and sociology, as well
as numerous articles in Turkish, German, and English. His most recent
book, A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of
Turkish Responsibility was published in 2006.

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