Hearing the Footsteps of Dawn: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide

Since 2010, Armenian Scholar Khatchig Mouradian
has crisscrossed Turkey more than a dozen times. From Istanbul to Ankara to
Diyarbakir, he has participated in genocide commemoration events, delivered
lectures on the Armenian genocide, and visited historic Armenian cities and
villages to conduct research and interviews with children and
grandchildren of witnesses and victims of the Armenian genocide. In this
illustrated lecture, he will talk about attempts by "hidden
Armenians" to rediscover their heritage, and the struggles of a handful of
Armenian, Kurdish, and Turkish activists against denial and destruction.
Combining images of ongoing vandalism of Armenian churches and monasteries with
footage of interviews with Islamized Armenians and locals who narrate the
horrors of the Armenian genocide, Mouradian will paint a picture of relentless
struggle against destruction, and hope for truth and justice, as the
centennial of the Armenian Genocide approaches.





Presented by The Center for Holocaust, Human Rights & Genocide Education (Chhange) at Brookdale Community College.