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Ararat-Eskijian Museum
15105 Mission Hills Rd
Mission Hills CA, 91345
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 818-838-4862
ARARAT-ESKIJIAN TO HOST LECTURE ON SEIZURE OF ARMENIAN ASSETS IN AINTAB
Ümit Kurt, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Clark
University IN Worcester, MA, will present a lecture entitled "The
Emergence of the New Wealthy Class Between 1915-1922: The Seizure of
Armenian Property by Local Elites in Aintab," and the documentary "My
Father's Aintab".
On Sunday, September 15, 2013, at 4:00 p.m. at the Ararat-Eskijian
Museum, Hasmik Mgrdichian Gallery, 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission
Hills, CA. The lecture is sponsored by the Ararat-Eskijian Museum and
the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). A
reception will follow the lecture.
The processes of genocide and deportation directed at
Aintab Armenians were in fact put into practice by local notables and
provincial elites themselves, and these local actors actually
prospered and became a new wealthy social class through the
acquisition of Armenians' property and wealth. In this respect, Ümit
Kurt argues that the Committee of Union and Progress' (CUP) genocide
and deportation decree had a certain social background, effective
power, and control and support mechanism(s) at the local levels.
Therefore, what took place at the local areas or periphery deserves to
be examined.
By zooming in on Aintab, Kurt sheds light on the
origins of the property and wealth of local and provincial
elites/notables in Aintab and how massacred and deported Armenians'
properties in Aintab changed hands. To date no comprehensive research
has been done that examines in detail the expropriation of Ottoman
Armenians in general and in Aintab in particular as a component of the
genocide.
Ümit Kurt, a native of Aintab, holds a Bachelor of
Science degree from Middle East Technical University in Political
Science and Public Administration and a Master's from Sabancı
University in the department of European Studies. He is currently a
Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Clark University and
an instructor at Sabancı University. He is the author of numerous
articles and several books, including most recently Kanunların Ruhu:
Emval-i Metruke Kanunlarında Soykırımın İzlerini Aramak (The Spirit of
Laws: Seeking for the Traces of Armenian Genocide in the Laws of
Abandoned Property, 2012), with Taner Akçam. His main area of
interest is confiscation of the Armenian properties and the role of
local elites/notables in Aintab during the Armenian genocide.
For more information contact the Ararat-Eskijian Museum at
818-838-4862 or
[email protected] or NAASR at 617-489-1610 or
[email protected].
Ararat-Eskijian Museum
15105 Mission Hills Rd
Mission Hills CA, 91345
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 818-838-4862
ARARAT-ESKIJIAN TO HOST LECTURE ON SEIZURE OF ARMENIAN ASSETS IN AINTAB
Ümit Kurt, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Clark
University IN Worcester, MA, will present a lecture entitled "The
Emergence of the New Wealthy Class Between 1915-1922: The Seizure of
Armenian Property by Local Elites in Aintab," and the documentary "My
Father's Aintab".
On Sunday, September 15, 2013, at 4:00 p.m. at the Ararat-Eskijian
Museum, Hasmik Mgrdichian Gallery, 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission
Hills, CA. The lecture is sponsored by the Ararat-Eskijian Museum and
the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). A
reception will follow the lecture.
The processes of genocide and deportation directed at
Aintab Armenians were in fact put into practice by local notables and
provincial elites themselves, and these local actors actually
prospered and became a new wealthy social class through the
acquisition of Armenians' property and wealth. In this respect, Ümit
Kurt argues that the Committee of Union and Progress' (CUP) genocide
and deportation decree had a certain social background, effective
power, and control and support mechanism(s) at the local levels.
Therefore, what took place at the local areas or periphery deserves to
be examined.
By zooming in on Aintab, Kurt sheds light on the
origins of the property and wealth of local and provincial
elites/notables in Aintab and how massacred and deported Armenians'
properties in Aintab changed hands. To date no comprehensive research
has been done that examines in detail the expropriation of Ottoman
Armenians in general and in Aintab in particular as a component of the
genocide.
Ümit Kurt, a native of Aintab, holds a Bachelor of
Science degree from Middle East Technical University in Political
Science and Public Administration and a Master's from Sabancı
University in the department of European Studies. He is currently a
Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Clark University and
an instructor at Sabancı University. He is the author of numerous
articles and several books, including most recently Kanunların Ruhu:
Emval-i Metruke Kanunlarında Soykırımın İzlerini Aramak (The Spirit of
Laws: Seeking for the Traces of Armenian Genocide in the Laws of
Abandoned Property, 2012), with Taner Akçam. His main area of
interest is confiscation of the Armenian properties and the role of
local elites/notables in Aintab during the Armenian genocide.
For more information contact the Ararat-Eskijian Museum at
818-838-4862 or
[email protected] or NAASR at 617-489-1610 or
[email protected].