LECTURE, OPEN HOUSE AT NAASR
Belmont Citizen-Herald, MA
Nov 22 2006
Dr. David Gaunt, professor of history at S?t?University College,
Stockholm, Sweden, will give a lecture entitled "Massacres and
Resistance: The Genocide of the Armenians and Assyrians Based on
New Evidence from the Archives" on Thursday, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. at
the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
Center , 395 Concord Ave., Belmont.
This lecture, Gaunt’s first in the Boston area, will be co-sponsored
by NAASR and the United Assyrian Association of New England. The
lecture will begin promptly at 8 p.m.
Preceding and following Gaunt’s lecture, NAASR will hold its annual
holiday open house, featuring a special sale in NAASR’s bookstore,
refreshments, music, gift-wrapping, and slide presentation of
highlights from NAASR’s recent 50th Anniversary Celebration. The
bookstore will open at 6 p.m. and remain open until 11 p.m.
The lecture will be based on findings from Gaunt’s recently-published
book, "Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations
in Eastern Anatolia during World War I," which will be on sale and
available for signing by the author.
Gaunt will detail how the persecution of Armenian and Assyrian
Christian minorities was organized on the national and local levels
in places where Armenian and Assyrian populations overlap. His work
is based on unique access to hundreds of documents in the archives
of Istanbul and Ankara, as well as documents of Iranian, Russian,
Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, French and German origin. Most of these
documents have never been published before. The new documents fill
in some of the blank spaces in the history of genocide.
Admission to the event is free (donations appreciated). For more
information call 617-489-1610, or e-mail [email protected].