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WATENPAUGH TALKS ABOUT HUMAN TRAFFICKING AFTER THE GENOCIDE AT NAASR TONIGHT
Belmont Citizen-Herald
http://www.wickedlocal.com/belmont/newsnow/x1471836269/Watenpaugh-talks-about-human-trafficking-after-the-genocide-at-NAASR-tonight
Oct 28 2010
MA
Belmont, Mass. - Prof. Keith David Watenpaugh of the University of
California at Davis will give a lecture entitled, Finding the Lost: The
Rescue of Trafficked Women and Children After the Armenian Genocide, at
8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 28, at the National Association for Armenian
Studies and Research (NAASR) Center, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont,
MA. The lecture will be co-sponsored by the Armenian International
Women's Association (AIWA) and NAASR.
Drawn from his forthcoming book, "Bread from Stones: The Middle
East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism," Watenpaugh's talk
will examine the League of Nations' efforts on behalf of deported
and vulnerable populations of trafficked Armenian women and children
(1920-1927). It presents a case in which the rescuing of trafficked
survivors of genocide and civil violence - a seemingly unambiguous
good - was at once a constitutive act in drawing the boundaries of
the international community, a critical moment in the definition of
humanitarianism, and a site of resistance to the colonial presence
in the post-Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean; a presence that was often
defended in the language of human rights, progress, and civilization.
Watenpaugh is a historian and Associate Professor of Modern Islam,
Human Rights & Peace who teaches in the Religious Studies Program at
UC-Davis. He is the author of "Being Modern in the Middle East" and has
written articles for the American Historical Review, the International
Journal of Middle East Studies, Social History, and Middle East Report.
Admission to the event is free (donations appreciated). The NAASR
Center is located opposite the First Armenian Church and next to the
U.S. Post Office. Ample parking is available around the building and
in adjacent areas. The lecture will begin promptly at 8 p.m.
More information about the lecture is available by contacting
NAASR at 617-489-1610 or [email protected], or AIWA at 617-926-0171 or
[email protected].
From: A. Papazian
Belmont Citizen-Herald
http://www.wickedlocal.com/belmont/newsnow/x1471836269/Watenpaugh-talks-about-human-trafficking-after-the-genocide-at-NAASR-tonight
Oct 28 2010
MA
Belmont, Mass. - Prof. Keith David Watenpaugh of the University of
California at Davis will give a lecture entitled, Finding the Lost: The
Rescue of Trafficked Women and Children After the Armenian Genocide, at
8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 28, at the National Association for Armenian
Studies and Research (NAASR) Center, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont,
MA. The lecture will be co-sponsored by the Armenian International
Women's Association (AIWA) and NAASR.
Drawn from his forthcoming book, "Bread from Stones: The Middle
East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism," Watenpaugh's talk
will examine the League of Nations' efforts on behalf of deported
and vulnerable populations of trafficked Armenian women and children
(1920-1927). It presents a case in which the rescuing of trafficked
survivors of genocide and civil violence - a seemingly unambiguous
good - was at once a constitutive act in drawing the boundaries of
the international community, a critical moment in the definition of
humanitarianism, and a site of resistance to the colonial presence
in the post-Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean; a presence that was often
defended in the language of human rights, progress, and civilization.
Watenpaugh is a historian and Associate Professor of Modern Islam,
Human Rights & Peace who teaches in the Religious Studies Program at
UC-Davis. He is the author of "Being Modern in the Middle East" and has
written articles for the American Historical Review, the International
Journal of Middle East Studies, Social History, and Middle East Report.
Admission to the event is free (donations appreciated). The NAASR
Center is located opposite the First Armenian Church and next to the
U.S. Post Office. Ample parking is available around the building and
in adjacent areas. The lecture will begin promptly at 8 p.m.
More information about the lecture is available by contacting
NAASR at 617-489-1610 or [email protected], or AIWA at 617-926-0171 or
[email protected].
From: A. Papazian