UCLA PRESS RELEASE, OCTOBER 17, 2007
UCLA AEF Chair in Armenian History
Contact: Prof. Richard Hovannisian
Tel: 310-825-3375
Email: [email protected]
Professor M.L. Anderson to Discuss 1895-96 Armenian Massacres at UCLA
"DOWN IN TURKEY FAR AWAY" — Human Rights, the Armenian Massacres of
1895-96, and Orientalism in Imperial Germany, is the topic of a
lecture to be given by Professor Margaret Lavinia Anderson on Friday,
November 2, at 1 p.m. in the History Conference Room, 6265 Bunche
Hall, on the UCLA campus. The lecture is sponsored by the UCLA
Armenian Studies Program and Department of History and the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research.
Margaret Anderson is Professor of History at the University of
California, Berkeley, and an established scholar in Modern German and
European history and in German-Ottoman relations. She will discuss the
responses to the Hamidian massacres, highlighting the differences
between Germany and the rest of the West and the reasons for those
differences. This is a part of a larger study that Anderson has
undertaken on German-Ottoman/Turkish relations From the Armenian
massacres of the 1890s to the 1930s.
The lecture is free and open to the public. Parking is available in
structure 2 (Hilgard and Westholme entrance) and structure 3 (Hilgard
and Wyton Entrance) for $8.00 or, if available, in metered parking
areas. Elevators may be taken to the sixth floor of Bunche Hall. The
conference room is down the corridor. For further information,
contact:
Richard Hovannisian
[email protected]
Peter Cowe
[email protected]
Marc Mamigonian
[email protected]