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WWI, ARMENIA, ORIGIN OF MODERN GENOCIDE TO BE EXAMINED DURING EMU LECTURE SERIES FEB. 12
Heritage Newspapers
Feb 11 2015
Published: Wednesday, February 11, 2015
YPSILANTI - During the First World War, more than half a million
Armenians lost their lives as part of the Ottoman government's
campaign to eliminate them from their historic homeland within what
is now Turkey.
Ronald Grigor Suny, an expert on the Armenian genocide, will discuss
this tragedy and other issues during his presentation, "The First
World War and the Origins of Modern Genocide," from 5-6:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 12, in room 300 at Halle Library on Eastern Michigan
University's main campus.
The event, which is sponsored by Eastern's history and philosophy
department, is free and open to the public.
Suny, the Charles Tilly professor of social and political history at
the University of Michigan, will look at why the Armenian genocide
occurred and how it helps our understanding of the 20th century's
subsequent genocides.
He is an expert in the fields of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet
Russia; nationalism; ethnic conflict; the role of emotions in politics
and Russian, Armenian and Caucasian history.
Suny was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern
Armenian History at the U-M and was the 2013 Berlin Prize Fellow at
the American Academy in Berlin, a research and cultural center that
works to foster a greater understanding between the people of America
and Germany.
His numerous works include, "The Soviet Experiment," "The Making of
the Georgian Nation," and "The Baku Commune 1917-1918."
Suny earned his doctorate from Columbia University and a bachelor's
degree from Swarthmore College.
http://www.heritage.com/articles/2015/02/11/ypsilanti_courier/news/doc54da8e083fe9b222137460.txt
Heritage Newspapers
Feb 11 2015
Published: Wednesday, February 11, 2015
YPSILANTI - During the First World War, more than half a million
Armenians lost their lives as part of the Ottoman government's
campaign to eliminate them from their historic homeland within what
is now Turkey.
Ronald Grigor Suny, an expert on the Armenian genocide, will discuss
this tragedy and other issues during his presentation, "The First
World War and the Origins of Modern Genocide," from 5-6:30 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 12, in room 300 at Halle Library on Eastern Michigan
University's main campus.
The event, which is sponsored by Eastern's history and philosophy
department, is free and open to the public.
Suny, the Charles Tilly professor of social and political history at
the University of Michigan, will look at why the Armenian genocide
occurred and how it helps our understanding of the 20th century's
subsequent genocides.
He is an expert in the fields of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet
Russia; nationalism; ethnic conflict; the role of emotions in politics
and Russian, Armenian and Caucasian history.
Suny was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern
Armenian History at the U-M and was the 2013 Berlin Prize Fellow at
the American Academy in Berlin, a research and cultural center that
works to foster a greater understanding between the people of America
and Germany.
His numerous works include, "The Soviet Experiment," "The Making of
the Georgian Nation," and "The Baku Commune 1917-1918."
Suny earned his doctorate from Columbia University and a bachelor's
degree from Swarthmore College.
http://www.heritage.com/articles/2015/02/11/ypsilanti_courier/news/doc54da8e083fe9b222137460.txt