"The Armenian Genocide and America's Role" by Dr. Charlie Laderman, King's College, London, author of "Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order" (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Date: Sunday, Oct. 25
Time: 1 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Register: bit.ly/armenianstudieskilicdagi2

The destruction of the Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire was an unprecedented tragedy. Even amidst the horrors of the first World War, Theodore Roosevelt insisted that it was the greatest crime of the conflict. "Sharing the Burden" explains how the Armenian struggle for survival became so entangled with the debate over the international role of the United States as it rose to world power status in the early 20th century. In doing so, Charlie Laderman provides a fresh perspective on the role of humanitarian intervention in U.S. foreign policy, Anglo-American relations, and the emergence of a new world order after World War I. The Armenian question illustrates how policymakers, missionaries and the public grappled for the first time with atrocities on this scale. It also reveals the values that animated American society during this pivotal period in the nation’s foreign relations.

Organized by the Armenian Studies Program.