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RETIRED BOSTON GLOBE REPORTER KURKJIAN TO SPEAK AT NAASR
By Contributor on April 6, 2014
Stephen Kurkjian, three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative
reporter (retired) for the Boston Globe and the son of a survivor of
the Armenian Genocide, will present an overview of his ten years of
research into a unique Genocide-era photograph in the illustrated
lecture "Kiss My Children's Eyes, Revisited: A Ten-Year Search for
Answers to the Armenian Genocide Through One Remarkable Photograph" on
Wednesday, April 23, 2014, at 7:30 p.m., at the National Association
for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) Center , 395 Concord Ave.,
Belmont, Mass. The lecture will be held on in commemoration of the
99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
The photograph is virtually unique in showing a group of identified men
rounded up by the authorities, many of whose fates--public executions,
massacres, death marches--are known.
A group of Armenian men are photographed standing under Ottoman Turkish
guard in front of a building in Gesaria (Kayseri) in 1915. The building
is a prison and the men, most of whose names have come to be listed
under the photograph, will soon be taken away and murdered, early
victims of the genocide of the Armenians committed by the Ottoman
Empire. Who were these men and how did they die? What became of their
families? Who took this photograph and how did it survive?
Stephen Kurkjian
The photograph is virtually unique in showing a group of identified men
rounded up by the authorities, many of whose fates--public executions,
massacres, death marches--are known. Yet until the past decade it
had never been researched. Acclaimed investigative journalist and
long-serving NAASR Board Member Stephen Kurkjian has attempted to
decode the story told by this photograph and gone on an odyssey with
unexpected revelations and continuing mysteries.
Using his skills as a reporter and the historical documentary resources
available to him, Kurkjian has unraveled some--but not all--of the
puzzles of the photograph, and, with the assistance of a number of
researchers including renowned genocide scholar Dr. Vahakn N. Dadrian,
traced how the Armenian Genocide came to Gesaria. Focusing on the
microcosm offered by this single photograph, Kurkjian has found a
unique window into the macrocosm of the destruction of the Armenians
of the Ottoman Empire.
An article based on Kurkjian's research will appear in the April
2014 special magazine issue of the Armenian Weekly and subsequently
in the Journal of Armenian Studies.
Admission to the event is free (donations appreciated). The NAASR
Bookstore will open at 7:00 p.m. 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 7:30 p.m. and interested parties are
strongly encouraged to arrive early as space is limited and a large
turnout is anticipated.
More information about the lecture is available by calling (617)
489-1610, faxing (617) 484-1759, e-mailing [email protected], or writing
to NAASR, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA 02478.
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2014/04/06/kurkjian/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
By Contributor on April 6, 2014
Stephen Kurkjian, three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative
reporter (retired) for the Boston Globe and the son of a survivor of
the Armenian Genocide, will present an overview of his ten years of
research into a unique Genocide-era photograph in the illustrated
lecture "Kiss My Children's Eyes, Revisited: A Ten-Year Search for
Answers to the Armenian Genocide Through One Remarkable Photograph" on
Wednesday, April 23, 2014, at 7:30 p.m., at the National Association
for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) Center , 395 Concord Ave.,
Belmont, Mass. The lecture will be held on in commemoration of the
99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
The photograph is virtually unique in showing a group of identified men
rounded up by the authorities, many of whose fates--public executions,
massacres, death marches--are known.
A group of Armenian men are photographed standing under Ottoman Turkish
guard in front of a building in Gesaria (Kayseri) in 1915. The building
is a prison and the men, most of whose names have come to be listed
under the photograph, will soon be taken away and murdered, early
victims of the genocide of the Armenians committed by the Ottoman
Empire. Who were these men and how did they die? What became of their
families? Who took this photograph and how did it survive?
Stephen Kurkjian
The photograph is virtually unique in showing a group of identified men
rounded up by the authorities, many of whose fates--public executions,
massacres, death marches--are known. Yet until the past decade it
had never been researched. Acclaimed investigative journalist and
long-serving NAASR Board Member Stephen Kurkjian has attempted to
decode the story told by this photograph and gone on an odyssey with
unexpected revelations and continuing mysteries.
Using his skills as a reporter and the historical documentary resources
available to him, Kurkjian has unraveled some--but not all--of the
puzzles of the photograph, and, with the assistance of a number of
researchers including renowned genocide scholar Dr. Vahakn N. Dadrian,
traced how the Armenian Genocide came to Gesaria. Focusing on the
microcosm offered by this single photograph, Kurkjian has found a
unique window into the macrocosm of the destruction of the Armenians
of the Ottoman Empire.
An article based on Kurkjian's research will appear in the April
2014 special magazine issue of the Armenian Weekly and subsequently
in the Journal of Armenian Studies.
Admission to the event is free (donations appreciated). The NAASR
Bookstore will open at 7:00 p.m. 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 7:30 p.m. and interested parties are
strongly encouraged to arrive early as space is limited and a large
turnout is anticipated.
More information about the lecture is available by calling (617)
489-1610, faxing (617) 484-1759, e-mailing [email protected], or writing
to NAASR, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA 02478.
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2014/04/06/kurkjian/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress