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    "WHY GENOCIDE? THE FATE OF THE ARMENIANS AND ASSYRIANS AT THE END OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE" SUNY IN BERLIN

    AGA Online
    Feb 27 2014

    Berlin-Wannsee, 6. Marz 2014, 19:30 Uhr: "Why Genocide? The Fate
    of the Armenians and Assyrians at the End of the Ottoman Empire"
    - Vortrag von Prof. Ronald Suny an der American Academy in Berlin
    (Am Sandwerder 17-19)

    27.02.2014 17:33 PDF Version

    Understanding why the Young Turk government decided in early
    1915 to deport - and eventually massacre - its Armenian subjects
    requires attention both to strategic calculations of a government
    perceiving immediate dangers and to the emotional environment in
    which construction of enemies and allies were made. Rather than
    propose that the genocide was the planned first step in creating a
    Turkish nation-state (Kemalism avant la lettre), Ronald Suny proposes
    that the Young Turks were more empire-preservers than nation-makers,
    and that the genocide was a pathological response to a perceived
    existential threat. Distinct from earlier massacres (1894-1896,
    1909), which had different etiologies, the mass murders of 1915 were
    a radical ethno-religious cleansing to reshape Anatolia and render
    the Armenians politically and culturally impotent. To explain why
    the Young Turks committed genocide, Suny investigates what he calls
    their "affective disposition:" the emotional environment and world
    view that led them to construct the Armenians as subversive to the
    empire and nation's continued existence.

    This event will be livestreamed.

    BIOGRAPHY

    Ronald Suny is the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and
    Political History at the University of Michigan, where he directed the
    Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies. He is also a professor
    emeritus of political science and history at the University of
    Chicago. Suny's work has centered on the non-Russian nationalities
    of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, imperialism, and social
    and cultural history. From 1981 to 1995, Suny held the first Alex
    Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of
    Michigan, where he founded and directed the Armenian Studies Program.

    His many accolades include election to presidency of the American
    Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, two fellowships at
    the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford,
    a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, and a Guggenheim
    Fellowship. Together with his Michigan colleague Fatma Muge Gocek he
    was awarded the Academic Freedom Prize by the Middle East Studies
    Association for their success in bringing together Armenian and
    Turkish scholars to investigate the Armenian genocide.

    Suny is the author of several books, including Looking Toward Ararat:
    Armenia in Modern History (Indiana, 1993), and the co-editor of A
    State of Nations: Empire and Nation-making in the Age of Lenin and
    Stalin (Oxford, 2001), and A Question off Genocide: Armenians and
    Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire (Oxford, 2011). He has served
    on the editorial boards of Slavic Review, International Labor and
    Working-Class History, International Journal of Middle East Studies,
    The Armenian Review, Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies,
    Armenian Forum, and Ab Imperio. A frequent guest on news broadcasts
    such as the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, Voice of America, and National
    Public Radio, Suny also writes for The New York Times, The Washington
    Post, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, New Left Review, Dissent, and
    other publications.

    AMERICAN ACADEMY PROJECT

    Why Genocide? The Fate of the Armenians and Assyrians at the End of
    the Ottoman Empire

    At the Academy, Suny will complete Why Genocide? The Fate of the
    Armenians and Assyrians at the End of the Ottoman Empire, under
    contract with Princeton University Press. Instead of looking at the
    deportations and massacres of Armenians and Assyrians in 1915 as the
    outcome of nationalist or religious conflict, Suny argues that the
    Armenian genocide occurred when state authorities decided to remove
    the Armenians from eastern Anatolia in order to realize a number
    of strategic goals. He employs the concept "affective disposition"
    to explain an environment in which the Armenians were seen as an
    existential threat to the Empire and the Turkish people, thus rendering
    genocide, in the minds of the perpetrators, rational. Rather than a
    long-planned and orchestrated program of extermination, the Armenian
    genocide appears as more a vengeful and determined act of suppression
    that turned into an opportunistic policy to rid Anatolia of Armenians
    in a racialist vision of a Turanian empire.

    http://www.aga-online.org/event/detail.php?locale=de&eventId=64

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