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    PRESS RELEASE

    Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
    Herengracht 380
    1016 CJ Amsterdam
    The Netherlands

    Contact: S.Rottenberg
    Email: [email protected]
    Web: www.chgs.nl

    The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies cordially invites you to
    "The Ottoman Government and the end of the Ottoman Social Formation,
    1915-1917"

    a guest lecture by
    Dr. Hilmar Kaiser


    Thursday, June 17th 2004
    16:00 - 17:30, followed by a reception
    PC Hoofthuis, University of Amsterdam
    Spuistraat 134, room 104

    World War 1 initiated the beginning of the end of the Ottoman
    Empire. Before and after this war, the government of the Empire
    orchestrated an ethnic deportation policy. Hundred of thousands of
    Armenians, Arabs, Turks, Assyrians, Kurds and many more were deported
    to far away places, where they were often left in complete isolation,
    if they did not surrender to the ruling classes. This has led to the
    end of a Christian minority in the region - contemporary Turkey. The
    way this deportation policy has been organized and exercised is still
    being researched. Documents that have been hidden for years are found
    in Ottoman archives and made public by researchers like dr. Hilmar
    Kaiser. His lecture will be based on his most recent findings.

    The lecture will be held in English. The lecturer will be open to
    questions and discussion.

    Dr. Hilmar Kaiser (1961) studied at the University of Bochum and
    the European University Institute in Florence. He lived in Istanbul
    where he intensively researched the Ottoman Archived. He is the
    author of various books on this subject, such as At the Crossroads
    of Der Zor: Death, Survival and Humanitarian Resistance in Aleppo,
    1915-1917 (London: Taderon, 2002); Imperialism, Racism, and Development
    Theories: The Construction of a Dominant Paradigm on Ottoman Armenians
    (Princeton, NJ: Gomidas Institute, 1997); and "Migration, Deportation,
    and Nation Building: The Case of the Ottoman Empire," in: René Leboutte
    (ed.), Migration and Migrants in Historical Perspective: Permanencies
    and Innovations (Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 2000), pp.273-292.

    The lecture is open to the general public. Please register before
    June 15th with Silvia Rottenberg at [email protected] or by phone
    at 020-5233808
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