Excavating Women’s Testimony of the Armenian Genocide

3 April 2025 | 5:30pm | Higgins Lounge | Dana Commons Excavating Women’s Testimony of the Armenian Genocide  Speaker: Elyse Semerdjian (Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies; Professor, Department of History) Semerdjian will share her translations of some of the earliest Armenian women’s accounts of the weaponizing of sexual violence during the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1919. She will discuss the challenges in locating everyday Armenian women’s genocide experience within traditional archival sources. Introducing her concept of “embodied archives,” Semerdjian will highlight how wounds and tattoo inscriptions are yet another form of genocide testimony. Zoom Registration Link Sponsored by the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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