Name: The Past of the Past: Armenian Heritage in Ottoman and Republican Turkey
Start: 2024-09-27T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-09-27T20:00:00-07:00
Location: Univerity Business Center, 5245 N Backer Ave, Fresno State

The Past of the Past: Armenian Heritage in Ottoman and Republican Turkey

Dr. Simon Maghakyan is Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies in the Armenian Studies Program at California State university, Fresno for Fall 2024. He is a political scientist known for his pioneering forensic and theoretical research on heritage and security
The lecture will address the Ottoman Empire’s and the pre-Erdogan Turkish Republic’s approaches to Armenian cultural heritage as reflective of broader policies towards Armenians, highlighting a mixed record of destruction, dispossession, and accommodation. It will dissect the securitization of and subsequent state-sanctioned heritage crime against religious-cultural sites starting in the 19th century, policies that escalated during and even after the WWI-era Armenian Genocide.