Symposium on Adana Massacre of Armenians to be held in London in March 2009

PanARMENIAN.Net - To mark the centenary of the Adana Massacres of 1909 a one-day symposium will be held at the London School of Economics on 28 March 2009. The meeting will look back at Adana 1909 to evaluate the humanitarian activity in the aftermath of the 1909 massacres and to explore the response, imagery and meaning ascribed to those events.



Since 1909, Adana has continued to resonate as an evocative historic community in the consciousness of the Armenian Diaspora, and it has commanded artistic responses in literature, art and film, Gibrahayer.com reports.



Possible subjects might include, but are not limited to, the following: the response to Adana 1909 by observers, survivors, humanitarian organizations and writers; analysis of or new approaches to the classic texts by authors such as Zabel Yesayian, Souren Bartevian, Siamanto, Arshagouhi Teotig or Hagop Terzian; analysis of texts by foreign observers on Adana 1909; Adana in oral narratives or song; the relationship between art, violence and mourning; literary texts or film or artwork exploring Adana as lost (or ancestral) home, images of Adana, memory or Diasporan identity.



Adana Massacre was the second series of large-scale massacres of Armenians to break out in the Ottoman Empire. The atrocities committed in the province of Adana in April 1909 coincided with the counter-revolution staged by supporters of Sultan Abdul Hamid (Abdulhamit) II (1876-1909)



A prosperous region on the Mediterranean coast encompassing the old principality of Cilicia, once an independent Armenian state between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, the province of Adana had been spared the 1890's massacres. The disturbances were most severe in the city of Adana where a reported 4,437 Armenian dwellings were torched. The outbreaks spread throughout the district and an estimated 30,000 Armenians were reported killed.
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