The historical trajectories of ethnic cleansing in the 19th and early 20th centuries will be explored in this year’s Annual Armenian Genocide Commemoration lecture, given by Dr. Khatchig Mouradian. The lecture, “Ethnic Cleansing in the Long 19th Century: The Native American, Circassian, and Armenian Cases,” will be held on Thursday, April 24, at 4:30 p.m. in White Hall room 106.

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“Cases of ethnic cleansing and genocide are often studied in historical isolation, yet Dr. Mouradian’s talk promises to illuminate how instances of forced displacement across world regions took shape out of related conditions of imperial decline and nation-state formation,” said Lori Khatchadourian, associate professor of Near Eastern studies and anthropology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S).

Mouradian is a lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies at Columbia University, and the Armenian and Georgian specialist at the Library of Congress. He is also a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. He is the author of the award-winning book “The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918” (2021).

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