PRESS RELEASE
National Association for Armenian
Studies and Research (NAASR)
395 Concord Avenue
Belmont, MA 02478
Tel.: 617-489-1610
E-mail: hq@naasr.org

COMMEMORATION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AT TUFTS
TO FEATURE LECTURE BY CLAIRE MOURADIAN

Tufts University, the Darakjian-Jafarian Chair in Armenian History,
the Department of History, the Armenian Club at Tufts University, and
the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research will
sponsor the Commemoration of the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide
at Tufts on Wednesday, April 15, 2015, at 7:00 p.m. The Tufts event
will feature a lecture by Dr. Claire Mouradian of Centre National de
la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France, entitled “A Century of
Oblivion: The Time Has Come to Listen to the Voices of the Victims.”
The evening will be hosted by Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Professor of
History and Darakjian-Jafarian Chair of Armenian History at Tufts
University.

The commemoration and lecture will take place in Goddard Chapel on
Tufts’ Medford, MA, campus. A reception will follow in the Coolidge
Room in nearby Ballou Hall.

For the first time Claire Mouradian explores a collection of private
letters written in 1915-1919 by survivors in the Ottoman Empire to
their relatives in the USA. This correspondence is a first-hand
account of events and uncovers an intimate record of their lives. The
necessity for scholars to confront the continuing denial of the
Turkish state has led historians to give priority to archival
research, external diplomatic testimonies, and eye-witness accounts
over the voices of the victims. These letters highlight the
consequences of the Armenian Genocide on families and individuals and
will be read as a tribute to their memory.

Dr. Claire Mouradian is a director of research at the CNRS, Paris, and
is in charge of the section on the Caucasus within the Centre d’études
des Mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen (CERCEC) at the École
des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). She is the author and
editor of numerous books and articles including Caucase, terres
d’empire, (2005), L’Arménie, (2002), and De Staline à Gorbatchev :
histoire d’une république soviétique, l’Arménie, éd. (1990).

She has organized many exhibits, seminars, and conferences and has
given lectures on Armenian history and on the Armenian Genocide in
numerous universities across the globe. She is also the official
translator to François Hollande during his trips to Armenia.

More information about the lecture is available by calling
617-489-1610, e-mailing hq@naasr.org, or writing to NAASR, 395 Concord
Ave., Belmont, MA 02478; or by contacting Prof. McCabe at
ina.mccabe@tufts.edu.

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Belmont, MA
March 16, 2015