Dr. Hrag Papazian will discuss the officially Muslim and hence legally “non-Armenian” citizens of the Republic of Turkey who, drawing on their Armenian ancestors Islamized or Alevized generations earlier, identify as Armenians today. The talk will discuss the contextual developments that facilitated the unprecedented public “coming out” of such individuals during the last few decades, and examine these people’s understandings of Armenianness, their experiences in the post-genocidal context, and their relations with the Christian Armenians of Istanbul.

Date: Friday, Oct. 7
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium

For more information contact Professor Barlow Der Mugrdechian, barlowd@csufresno.edu or call 559.278.2669.