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Dr. Julien Zarifian is professor of U.S. History and Civilization at the University of Poitiers, France, and fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France. "The United States and the Armenian Genocide: History, Memory, Politics" is the first book to examine how and why the United States refused to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide until the early 2020s.
Although the American government expressed sympathy towards the plight of the Armenians in the 1910s and 1920s, historian Julien Zarifian explores how, from the 1960s, a set of geopolitical and institutional factors soon led the United States to adopt a policy of genocide non-recognition which it would cling to for over 50 years, through Republican and Democratic administrations alike.
Date: Monday, Feb. 24
Time: 7 - 8 p.m.
Location: Grosse Industrial Technology Building, room 101
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