Armenian Genocide Survivor Testimonies and the Evolution of Their Use

October 16, 2017 at 2:15 PM Pacific Time

A public lecture by Dr. Boris Adjemian (Director, AGBU Nubar Library, Paris)

Organized by the USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research and the USC Institute of Armenian Studies

In this public lecture, Dr. Boris Adjemian will speak about the making of Armenian archival collections of victims’ testimonies after the genocide and the evolution of their historiographical uses.

Dr. Boris Adjemian is a historian and the director of the AGBU Nubar Library (Paris). He is also the editor-in-chief of the bilingual academic journal Études Arméniennes Contemporaines. He defended his PhD in 2011 at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Università degli Studi di Napoli. His first book, entitled La Fanfare du Négus: Les Arméniens en Éthiopie (19e-20e siècles), was published by Éditions de l’EHESS in 2013.