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SAVE THE DATE--SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2005
2:00-5:30 P.M.
UCLA--COURT OF SCIENCES 50 (YOUNG HALL)
"THREE TURKISH VOICES ON THE OTTOMAN ARMENIANS"
F EATURING PROFESSORS:
TANER AKCAM, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
(a new assessment of Ottoman documents)
ELIF SHAFAK, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
(memory and literature)
F. MUGE GOCEK, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
(the recent Istanbul conference on Ottoman
Armenians)
SPONSORED BY ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAIR
IN MODERN ARMENIAN HISTORY, UCLA
CONTACT: Richard Hovannisian =
[email protected]
Open to the Public at No Charge. Parking Structure
#2,
Westholme Entrance at Hilgard Avenue, Daily Parking
Fee! , $ 8.00
SAVE THE DATE--SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2005
2:00-5:30 P.M.
UCLA--COURT OF SCIENCES 50 (YOUNG HALL)
"THREE TURKISH VOICES ON THE OTTOMAN ARMENIANS"
F EATURING PROFESSORS:
TANER AKCAM, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
(a new assessment of Ottoman documents)
ELIF SHAFAK, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
(memory and literature)
F. MUGE GOCEK, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
(the recent Istanbul conference on Ottoman
Armenians)
SPONSORED BY ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAIR
IN MODERN ARMENIAN HISTORY, UCLA
CONTACT: Richard Hovannisian =
[email protected]
Open to the Public at No Charge. Parking Structure
#2,
Westholme Entrance at Hilgard Avenue, Daily Parking
Fee! , $ 8.00
) and there was no room in the main lecture hall. I guess they weren't expecting this huge crowd. So many young people... people were amazed. It was great! So they opened another lecture hall and had the rest of the attendees sit there (and there were still people left outside) and once Tener Ackam was done in the first room, he came to ours. His main focus was on the Turkish documents and that not only they don't dismiss the genocide, but they actually prove it. He gave some examples. It was VERY interesting. I might write more on his speech later, I'm too tired.
. She talked about the conference that was held in Turkey last month and how it kept getting cancelled and that actually 3 thousand Turkish people were interested in attending it, but only 120 attendees were allowed! She said it's a big step for Turkey. She also said people threw tomatoes and eggs at the attendees when it was finally held 
. She said some of her fathers friends consider her a traitor, and she said I tell my dad, I'm a scholar. I read alot - probably more than I should. Ask your friends to read my books and I'll be happy to discuss it with them but after they read my writings. She said she never hears from them again. haha. 
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