April 11, 2006
Clark's Payaslian to speak about Politics and the Armenian Genocide on April 20
Worcester, Mass.
Lecture
"Power, Politics, and the Armenian Genocide"
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Tilton Hall, Clark University
7:30 p.m.
Simon Payaslian, Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies and Modern Armenian History at Clark University, will discuss the advent of the United States as a global power and how it coincided with the internationalization of the Armenian question in the late nineteenth century. Professor Payaslian will discuss the Wilson administration (1913-1921) and its policy of promoting American missionary and economic interests, while maintaining friendly relations with the Ottoman government during the Armenian Genocide.
This lecture is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. For more information, call 508-793-8897.