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TACHJIAN TO PRESENT MICROHISTORY OF TWO FAMILIES DURING THE GENOCIDE
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2013/04/10/tachjian-to-present-microhistory-of-two-families-during-the-genocide/
April 10, 2013
BELMONT, Mass.-On Wed., April 17, Historian Vahe Tachjian will
give a lecture in commemoration of the 98th anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide entitled "Genocide Diaries: A Microhistory of
Two Armenian Families, 1915-1918," at the National Association for
Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) in Belmont. Tashjian is the
chief editor and project director of the Houshamadyan.org website,
"a project to reconstruct Ottoman Armenian town and village life."
This is his first time lecturing in the Boston area.
Vahe Tachjian In 1915, two Armenian families, the Bogharians and
the Tavukjians, were deported from Aintab, together with many other
Armenian inhabitants of the town. They were forcibly resettled, first
in Hama, and then in the nearby town of Salamiyya, in present-day
Syria. Two diaries written by members of these families have been
passed down: one by Father Nerses Tavukjian, and the other by Krikor
Bogharian. In this lecture, based on his forthcoming book, Tachjian
will attempt to recreate the quotidian world of the deportees-of
ordinary lives caught in an extraordinary historical moment.
Vahe Tachjian was born in Lebanon and earned his Ph.D. in history and
civilization from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
(EHESS) in Paris. His research covers the period of the French
occupation of Cilicia, Syria, and Lebanon between the two World Wars,
the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, and refugee problems in the
Middle East.
Among his publications is La France en Cilicie et en Haute-Mesopotamie:
Aux Confins de la Turquie, de la Syrie et de l'Irak, 1919-1933. He is
the co-editor, with Raymond Kevorkian and Michel Paboudjian, of Ohannès
Pacha Kouyoumdjian: Le Liban a la Veille et au Debut de la Guerre:
Memoires d'un Gouverneur, 1913-1915; with Raymond Kevorkian and Levon
Nordiguian, Les Armeniens, 1917-1939: La Quete d'un Refuge; and with
Raymond Kevorkian, Levon Nordiguian, Mihran Minassian, and Michel
Paboudjian, Les Armeniens de Cilicie: Terroir, Memoire et Identite.
The lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. at NAASR, 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont,
MA. For more information about Tachjian's lecture, call 617-489-1610
or e-mail [email protected].
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2013/04/10/tachjian-to-present-microhistory-of-two-families-during-the-genocide/
April 10, 2013
BELMONT, Mass.-On Wed., April 17, Historian Vahe Tachjian will
give a lecture in commemoration of the 98th anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide entitled "Genocide Diaries: A Microhistory of
Two Armenian Families, 1915-1918," at the National Association for
Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) in Belmont. Tashjian is the
chief editor and project director of the Houshamadyan.org website,
"a project to reconstruct Ottoman Armenian town and village life."
This is his first time lecturing in the Boston area.
Vahe Tachjian In 1915, two Armenian families, the Bogharians and
the Tavukjians, were deported from Aintab, together with many other
Armenian inhabitants of the town. They were forcibly resettled, first
in Hama, and then in the nearby town of Salamiyya, in present-day
Syria. Two diaries written by members of these families have been
passed down: one by Father Nerses Tavukjian, and the other by Krikor
Bogharian. In this lecture, based on his forthcoming book, Tachjian
will attempt to recreate the quotidian world of the deportees-of
ordinary lives caught in an extraordinary historical moment.
Vahe Tachjian was born in Lebanon and earned his Ph.D. in history and
civilization from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
(EHESS) in Paris. His research covers the period of the French
occupation of Cilicia, Syria, and Lebanon between the two World Wars,
the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, and refugee problems in the
Middle East.
Among his publications is La France en Cilicie et en Haute-Mesopotamie:
Aux Confins de la Turquie, de la Syrie et de l'Irak, 1919-1933. He is
the co-editor, with Raymond Kevorkian and Michel Paboudjian, of Ohannès
Pacha Kouyoumdjian: Le Liban a la Veille et au Debut de la Guerre:
Memoires d'un Gouverneur, 1913-1915; with Raymond Kevorkian and Levon
Nordiguian, Les Armeniens, 1917-1939: La Quete d'un Refuge; and with
Raymond Kevorkian, Levon Nordiguian, Mihran Minassian, and Michel
Paboudjian, Les Armeniens de Cilicie: Terroir, Memoire et Identite.
The lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. at NAASR, 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont,
MA. For more information about Tachjian's lecture, call 617-489-1610
or e-mail [email protected].