Repression Against Study of the Armenian Genocide... 102 Years After the Events

"Scholars Under Fire: The Turkish State, Nationalists, and the Repression Against Study of the Armenian Genocide... 102 Years After the Events"

With: Fatma Müge Göçek, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, and Ronald Grigor Suny, William H Sewell, Jr Distinguished University Professor of History

Recorded on October 11, 2017

Michigan sociologist Fatma Müge Göçek and historian Ronald Grigor Suny have for almost two decades brought Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish, and other scholars together to research, write about, and discuss the massacres and deportations by the Ottoman government of Armenians and Assyrians. The recent conference in Berlin, organized as part of a series of Workshops on Armenian and Turkish Scholarship, was threatened by the right-wing Fatherland Party (Vatan Partisi) and the Turkish government. Scholars from Turkey were prevented from attending; demonstrations against the conference were threatened; and several participants in Turkey came under fire from universities and the state. Professor Göçek and Professor Suny will talk about this threat to academic freedom and censorship that undermines what our university stands for and protects.

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