PRESS RELEASE
Armenian Studies Program
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2550
Contact: Prof. Stephan Astourian
(510) 643-8872
[email protected]
Forthcoming Public Events of the Armenian Studies Program at the
University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, March 4, 4pm in 3335 Dwinelle Hall
`American Millennialism and the Middle East in the Era of the World Wars.’
Speaker: Dr. Hans-Lukas Kieser (Kratter Visiting Professor, Stanford
University; Privatdozent, University of Zürich)
Respondent: Prof. Daniel Sargent (Department of History, U.C. Berkeley)
Co-sponsored by the Department of History.
Saturday, March 6, 4-6pm, in 370/371 Dwinelle Hall
Public Session of the Seventh Workshop in Armenian-Turkish Scholarship.
This is a two-day international conference on the Armenian Genocide in
a comparative perspective focusing on the following theme:
`From Empire to Nation: The Ottoman Case in Comparative Perspective.’
Twenty scholars from four Western European countries, Russia, Turkey,
and the United States will be participating in this workshop.
The public session will sum up the main issues and debates of the
conference and will address the state of Armenian Genocide Studies in
Armenia, Turkey, and the United States.
Speakers: Prof. Margaret Anderson (University of California,
Berkeley); Prof. Müge Göçek (University of Michigan);
Prof. Jirair Libaridian (University of Michigan); and Prof. Ronald G.
Suny (University of Michigan).
Chair: Prof. Stephan H. Astourian (Executive Director, Armenian
Studies Program)
Co-organized by the Workshop on Armenian/Turkish Scholarship of the
University of Michigan.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Institute
of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies,
and the Department of History of the University of California,
Berkeley.