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  • Donald Bloxham to Speak at NAASR, June 5

    PRESS RELEASE
    National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
    395 Concord Avenue
    Belmont, MA 02478
    Phone: 617-489-1610
    Fax: 617-484-1759
    E-mail: [email protected]
    www.naasr.org


    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, June 5, at 8:00 p.m., at the National
    Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) Center, 395
    Concord Ave., Belmont, MA. This lecture will be Bloxham's first in the
    Boston area. (The lecture was originally scheduled for December 2007 and
    was postponed due to a snowstorm.)

    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), for which he was 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 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.

    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.
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