Khatchig Mouradian - Houshamadyan: Armenian Memory Books

Program Title: Khatchig Mouradian - Houshamadyan: Armenian Memory Books
Description: April 24th marks the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. I grew up in the 1950s in New York in the shadow of that tragedy. I was surrounded by survivors named Garabedian, Giragosian, Hagopian and others who always spoke fondly of “yergeer,” the country they were forced to abandon. My mother Araxie was from, Dubneh, a village near Diyarbakir and my father Bedros was from Nbishi a village near Palu in what is now Eastern Turkey. Their memories, and those of others from the “old” country filled my ears as did their tales of how they escaped death and got to America. I’d listened to their stories in Armenian not understanding everything but knowing for them “yergeer” was a special place. It was home. Houshamadyan are precious memory books of a millennial-old civilization virtually lost but not forgotten.

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Featured Speakers/Guests: Khatchig Mouradian is the Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist at the Library of Congress and a lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He also serves as Co-Principal Investigator of the project on Armenian Genocide Denial at the Global Institute for Advanced Studies at New York University. He is the author of The Resistance Network and co-editor of The Late Ottoman Empire, and the editor of the journal The Armenian Review.

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