PRESS RELEASE
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
395 Concord Ave.
Belmont, MA 02478
Tel.: 617-489-1610
E-mail: [email protected]
LECTURE AT NAASR ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
BY LEMKIN AWARD-WINNER DONALD BLOXHAM
Prof. Donald Bloxham, Professor of Modern History at the University of
Edinburgh and currently the J. B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior
Scholar-in-Residence at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.,
will give a lecture entitled "The Role of the Great Powers in the
Armenian Genocide" on Thursday, December 13, at 8:00 p.m., at the
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) Center,
395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA. This lecture, Bloxham’s first in the
Boston area, will take place the same evening as NAASR’s Christmas Open
House.
Bloxham is the author of the acclaimed book The Great Game of Genocide:
Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians
(Oxford Univ. Press), recently released in paperback, and for which
Bloxham has been awarded the Raphael Lemkin Award for 2007 by the
International Association of Genocide Scholars.
Interaction Between Ottoman Empire and Great Powers
Bloxham has written, "The project from which the book evolved originally
intended to focus upon Turkish denial of the Armenian genocide, and
Western acceptance of that denial. But it soon became clear that denial
and its accommodation could not be properly understood without knowledge
of how the outside world related to the deeds of the Ottoman Empire
during and immediately after the First World War … [and that] it was
impossible to explain this pattern of interaction between the Ottoman
state and the ‘Great Powers’ in the Armenian Question up to and during
the genocide."
Bloxham is the youngest full professor of history in the UK and the
winner of several prizes and honors for his work in addition to the
Lemkin Award for genocide scholarship. He is also the author of
Genocide on Trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust
History and Memory, The Holocaust: Critical Historical Approaches (with
Tony Kushner), and the forthcoming Genocide, the World Wars, and the
Unweaving of Europe. He is also author of nearly fifty articles and
book chapters, and serves on the editorial board of four journals:
Holocaust Studies, Patterns of Prejudice, Zeitschrift für
Genozidforschung, and the Journal of Genocide Research.
The NAASR Center and Headquarters 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 8:00 p.m. The bookstore will open at 6:00 p.m.
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.