The Armenian Studies Program Spring 2020 Lecture Series presents a talk by Dr. Ari Şekeryan titled "The Survivors: Armenian Orphans and Refugees After the First World War (1918-1923)" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 5, in the Alice Peters Auditorium, room 191, at the University Business Center.

The lecture presents the story of Armenian orphans and refugees by employing Armenian and Ottoman Turkish media sources published in Istanbul and Anatolia during the Armistice period. This talk explores the nature of the aid campaigns organized by the community leadership and the importance of the contribution of the Armenian intellectuals, press and the community members to these aid campaigns.

Şekeryan graduated from the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford, defending his dissertation entitled, “The Armenians in the Ottoman Empire after the First World War (1918-1923).” In the 2018-19 academic year, Şekeryan was an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Institute for Research in the Humanities. He was a Visiting Lecturer in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Yerevan State University (summer of 2018) and a Research Assistant in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford in 2016.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Free parking, with a permit, is available in Lot P6 or P5. Free parking codes are available through the Armenian Studies Program.

For more information, contact the Armenian Studies Program at 559.278.2669, visit www.fresnostate.edu/armenianstudies or Facebook @ArmenianStudiesFresnoState.