Turkish scholar to lecture on Armenian Genocide

PanARMENIAN.Net - The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research will hold its 57th Annual Assembly of Members on May 14, at the NAASR Headquarters in Belmont.

The Assembly will be convened at 12 noon and lunch will be served at 12:15 p.m. Following lunch, there will be a lecture by Dr. Taner Akcam, the Robert Aram & Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen & Marian Mugar Professor of Modern Armenian History and Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. Akcam will speak on the subject of “The State of Armenian Genocide Research and Needs for the Future.”

Akcam has held the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair at Clark since 2008. He is the author of ten scholarly works of history and sociology, including From Empire To Republic: Turkish Nationalism and the Armenian Genocide and A Shameful Act: the Armenian Genocide and Turkish Responsibility, as well as numerous articles in Turkish, German, and English, The Armenian Weekly reports.

In 2010, Akcam partnered with NAASR and the University of Minnesota’s Ohannessian Chairholder Eric Weitz to organize the workshop “The State of the Art of Armenian Genocide Research: Historiography, Sources, and Future Directions” at Clark University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. In fall 2011, the same organizers will present the one-day conference “Beyond the Armenian Genocide: The Question of Restitution and Reparation in Comparative Review.”