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    Emil Lazarian
  • 6 years ago
    • Categories: 2018

Armenian studies program to host guest lecturer Sept. 21

The Collegian, CSU Fresno
Aug 29 2018
Seth Casey
Aug 29, 2018
 

Fresno State will host Professor Umit Kurt as a guest speaker for a lecture on historical figures of the Armenian Genocide in the University Business Center at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 21.

The discussion is part of the Fall Lecture Series presented by the Armenian Studies Program, and is the first of three scheduled lectures entitled “Actors, Actions and Ideas in Mass Violence at the Ottoman Periphery.”

According to a news release form the Armenian Studies Program, this discussion, titled “A rescuer, an Enigma and a Genocidaire: Cemal Pasha,” will focus on Cemal Pasha, a military general and ruler of the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

The lecture will be preceded by a reception featuring hors d’oeuvres from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the University Business Gallery before the discussion, which is located in the Alice Peters Auditorium Room 191.

Umit Kurt is a Ph.D. scholar who received his degree from the Department of History at Clark University in 2016, and currently serves as a Polonsky Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS