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  • What Happened and Why - The Denial of State Violence

    PRESS RELEASE
    October 28, 2014


    USC INSTITUTE OF ARMENIAN STUDIES
    Los Angeles, California, USA
    Contact: Salpi Ghazarian/Director
    Email: [email protected]
    Tel: 213.509.7109


    What Happened and Why - The Denial of State Violence

    Fatma Müge Göçek, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the
    University of Michigan, will be the guest of the USC Institute of
    Armenian Studies at a lunch-time conversation to be held on Wednesday,
    November 5, 2014, at 1:15 p.m. at the Ground Zero Coffeehouse, on
    campus.

    Entitled "What Happened and Why - The Denial of State Violence,"
    Dr. Göçek will speak about the centuries of collective violence
    against the Armenians, beginning in the Ottoman period and continuing
    through the republican period, until today. USC Professor of Religious
    Studies, Dr. Donald Miller, who is also Executive Director of USC's
    Center for Religion and Civic Culture, will be guiding the discussion.

    Dr. Göçek, a Turkish-born historical sociologist, has focused on the
    comparative analysis of history, politics and gender in the first and
    third worlds. She has analyzed the impact of processes such as
    development, nationalism, religious movements and collective violence
    on minorities. Her most recent book is an Oxford University Press
    publication called The Denial of Violence. Her other books include
    Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East (SUNY Press, 2002),
    The Transformation of Turkey: Redefining State and Society from the
    Ottoman Empire to the Modern Era (I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2011), and A
    Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman
    Empire (Oxford University Press, 2011 co-edited with Ronald Grigor
    Suny and Norman Naimark.)

    Dr. Donald Miller is a professor of religion and sociology. He has
    conducted extensive research on religion and social change, religion
    and community organizing, social ethics, immigrant religious
    communities in Los Angeles, and the Armenian and Rwandan genocides. He
    heads the USC Center on Religion and Civic Culture.

    Salpi Ghazarian, the director of the USC Institute of Armenian
    Studies, says, "We invite the community to join us for this program at
    the USC campus. This is not a lecture. It's a conversation between
    two people who have spent many years studying why and how states
    inflict violence on their own peoples. Dr. Göçek's research goes on to
    try to decipher the roots of the denial that has followed,
    specifically in the case of state violence against the Armenians of
    the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. This is critical to understanding the
    present and future state of Armenian-Turkish relations."

    Lunch will be served.

    The event will be live streamed at:
    https://capture.usc.edu/Mediasite/Play/44fb6753d1d443f3af777360a8758a4f1d

    Directions and parking information:

    We advise guests to park in Parking Structure D, which is located on
    the corner of Jefferson and Figueroa (across from the Shrine). See
    attached map for the location of the event (Ground Zero Coffeehouse.)

    Please call (213) 821-3943 if you have any questions regarding the
    event, including parking and directions.

    About the Institute
    Established in 2005, the USC Institute of Armenian Studies supports
    multidisciplinary scholarship to re-define, explore and study the
    complex issues that make up the contemporary Armenian experience -
    from post-Genocide to the developing Republic of Armenia to the
    evolving Diaspora. The institute encourages research, publications and
    public service, and benefits from communication technologies that link
    together the global academic and Armenian communities.

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