Dr. Armen T. Marsoobian, professor at Southern Connecticut State University, will speak on “Memory, Memorialization & Bearing Witness: Contested Memories of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey Today” on September 15 in the University Business Center on the Fresno State campus, Massis Post reports.
The lecture is part of the Armenian Studies Program Fall 2015 Lecture Series. The Professor will describe his project aimed at preserving the memory of the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. The project consists of photography exhibitions in Turkey, two books and the creation of memorial sites relating to the story of his mother’s family, the Dildilians, in Ottoman Turkey.
Marsoobian will also analyze the role of memorialization in collective memory, especially in situations when genocide is denied.
