Dr. Elyse Semerdjian, Clark University, will discuss her new book. This exploration of the Armenian genocide is told through the traces left in the memories and on the bodies of its women survivors. Foremost, among the images of the Armenian Genocide is the specter of tattooed Islamized Armenian women. Blue tribal tattoos that covered face and body signified assimilation into Muslim Bedouin and Kurdish households. Among Armenians, the tattooed survivor was seen as a living ethnomartyr or, alternatively, a national stain and the bodies of women and children figured centrally within the Armenian communal memory and humanitarian imaginary.

Date: April 25
Time: 7 - 8 p.m.
Location: Smittcamp Alumni House

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