MENA Mondays: The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province
When:
Monday, January 9, 2023
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM CT
Where: Harris Hall, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
MENA
Group: Middle East and North African Studies
Category: Lectures & Meetings, Academic, Multicultural & Diversity, Global & Civic Engagement
Description:
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunch provided. This event is co-sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program.
Zoom option available upon request.
Speaker: Umit Kurt, History, University of Newcastle.
Talk Title: The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province.
In this book talk, Umit Kurt reflects on the erasure of Armenian presence in Gaziantep, Turkey, where he was raised. Kurt uncovers who benefited materially when Armenian properties and businesses were confiscated, and how this new economic elite also funded the nationalist movement in Turkey.
Umit Kurt is an Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities, Creative Industry, and Social Sciences and an affiliate of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. A former Polonsky Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, he is the author of The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province (Harvard University Press, 2021), and the co-author of The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide (Berghahn, 2017).