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  • Upcoming event at Ararat-Eskijian Museum Sept.15,2013

    PRESS RELEASE
    Ararat-Eskijian Museum
    15105 Mission Hills Rd
    Mission Hills CA, 91345
    Email: [email protected]
    Tel: 818-838-4862


    ARARAT-ESKIJIAN TO HOST LECTURE ON SEIZURE OF ARMENIAN ASSETS IN AINTAB


    Ümit Kurt, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Clark
    University IN Worcester, MA, will present a lecture entitled "The
    Emergence of the New Wealthy Class Between 1915-1922: The Seizure of
    Armenian Property by Local Elites in Aintab," and the documentary "My
    Father's Aintab".

    On Sunday, September 15, 2013, at 4:00 p.m. at the Ararat-Eskijian
    Museum, Hasmik Mgrdichian Gallery, 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission
    Hills, CA. The lecture is sponsored by the Ararat-Eskijian Museum and
    the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). A
    reception will follow the lecture.

    The processes of genocide and deportation directed at
    Aintab Armenians were in fact put into practice by local notables and
    provincial elites themselves, and these local actors actually
    prospered and became a new wealthy social class through the
    acquisition of Armenians' property and wealth. In this respect, Ümit
    Kurt argues that the Committee of Union and Progress' (CUP) genocide
    and deportation decree had a certain social background, effective
    power, and control and support mechanism(s) at the local levels.
    Therefore, what took place at the local areas or periphery deserves to
    be examined.

    By zooming in on Aintab, Kurt sheds light on the
    origins of the property and wealth of local and provincial
    elites/notables in Aintab and how massacred and deported Armenians'
    properties in Aintab changed hands. To date no comprehensive research
    has been done that examines in detail the expropriation of Ottoman
    Armenians in general and in Aintab in particular as a component of the
    genocide.

    Ümit Kurt, a native of Aintab, holds a Bachelor of
    Science degree from Middle East Technical University in Political
    Science and Public Administration and a Master's from Sabancı
    University in the department of European Studies. He is currently a
    Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Clark University and
    an instructor at Sabancı University. He is the author of numerous
    articles and several books, including most recently Kanunların Ruhu:
    Emval-i Metruke Kanunlarında Soykırımın İzlerini Aramak (The Spirit of
    Laws: Seeking for the Traces of Armenian Genocide in the Laws of
    Abandoned Property, 2012), with Taner Akçam. His main area of
    interest is confiscation of the Armenian properties and the role of
    local elites/notables in Aintab during the Armenian genocide.

    For more information contact the Ararat-Eskijian Museum at
    818-838-4862 or

    [email protected] or NAASR at 617-489-1610 or
    [email protected].

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