USC INSTITUTE OF ARMENIAN STUDIES
On Wednesday November 5, 2014, Professor MügeGöçekof the University of Michigan spoke to a lunch crowd of USC students, faculty and members of the community about the roots and context of her most recent book – Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians 1789-2009.
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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
November 17,
2014
USC INSTITUTE OF
ARMENIAN STUDIES
University
of Southern California
Los
Angeles, California, USA
Contact:
SalpiGhazarian/Director
213.821.3943
What Happened
and Why – The Denial of State Violence
On
Wednesday November 5, 2014, Professor MügeGöçekof
the University of Michigan spoke to a lunch crowd of USC students, faculty and
members of the community about the roots and context of her most recent book – Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish
Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians 1789-2009.
Professor
Donald E. Miller, Leonard
K. Firestone Professor of Religion and Executive
Director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at USC joined Dr. Göçek in conversation. He began, much as she had begun the book,
with a discussion of her personal reasons for tackling such a vast topic. She explained
that it was important to understand not just why the centuries-long denial
(beginning with violence perpetrated even prior to the genocidal acts of 1915)
persisted, but also how it was sustained.
She chose to examine the memoirs of public officials, officers,
academics, ordinary citizens, published in Turkish, in Turkey, and available to
the population at large. Through passages in those memoirs, she was able to
study the motivation and the means of sustained denial.
Professor
Göçek’s talk was the second in a
series initiated by the USC Institute of Armenian Studies. The first featured
Rev. Dr. Paul Haidostian, President of Haigazian University, in conversation
with USC Professor Laurie Brand, head of the Middle East Studies Program. The third talk in the series featured
Syrian-Armenian journalist HaroutEkmanian.
Established in 2005, the USC
Institute of Armenian Studies supports multidisciplinary scholarship to
re-define, explore and study the complex issues that make up the contemporary
Armenian experience –
from post-Genocide to the developing
Republic of Armenia to the evolving Diaspora. The Institute encourages
research, publications and public service, and benefits from communication
technologies to link together the global academic and Armenian
communities.
This event can be viewed at: https://capture.usc.edu/Mediasite/Play/44fb6753d1d443f3af777360a8758a4f1d
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