Armenian Genocide Commemoration Event

 

Time: 6-9 PM

Place: Chumash Auditorium (Cal Poly)

(Bldg. 65 - University Union)

 

Join us for an educational evening commemorating the Armenian Genocide. We will be screening a movie ("The Armenian Genocide") and will hear from a Cal Poly Research Scholar in Residence, Dr. Earlene Craver.

 

About "The Armenian Genocide"

The Armenian Genocide is the complete story of the first Genocide of the 20th century, when over a million Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Turks during World War I – an event that is still denied by Turkey to this day. This film features interviews with the leading experts in the field, such as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samantha Power and New York Times best-selling author Peter Balakian. The documentary includes never-before-seen historical footage of the events and key players including Rafael Lemkin telling the story of how he invented the word Genocide in the 1940s. The Armenian Genocide is narrated by Julianna Margulies and includes historical narrations by Ed Harris, Natalie Portman, Laura Linney, Jared Leto, Lou Zorich and Orlando Bloom. Summary courtesy of Two Cats Productions. 

 

About Dr. Earlene Craver

Dr. Craver has a B.A. in History from Fresno State College, and an M.A. in Economics and Ph.D. in History from University of Southern California. Dr. Craver has published on a number of topics in early twentieth century European and American history. Her work on the intellectual migration to the U.S. in the 1920s and 1930s includes “The Emigration of the Austrian Economists,” History of Political Economy (1986) and a 1978 television interview with the 1974 Nobel Memorial prize-winner in economics , Friedrich von Hayek. Her work, “On the Boundary of White: The Cartozian Naturalizaton Case and the Armenians, 1923-1925,” Journal of American Ethnic History (2009), examines a 1923 legal case challenging the admissibility of Armenians to U.S. citizenship. She has also written on the Italian socialist party and labor movement including “The Third Generation: The Young Socialists in Italy, 1907-1915,” Canadian Journal of History (1996). She has previously taught at UC Riverside, University of Kentucky, and other universities including the University of Trento (Italy). Bio courtesy of Cal Poly.