Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide
Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide
Thursday, March 20, 2025
6:00 PM (ET)
L-112 Lecture Hall
Stockton University's Galloway Campus
101 Vera King Farris Drive | Galloway, NJ 08205
Among Armenians, the tattooed survivor was seen as a living ethnomartyr or, alternatively,
a national stain, and the
bodies of women and children figured centrally within the Armenian communal memory
and humanitarian imaginary. These tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal a larger
history, as the lived trauma of genocide is understood through bodies, skin, and—in
what remains of those lives a century afterward—bones.
Dr. Elyse Semerdjian is a social historian of the Ottoman Empire whose research focuses on the experiences of women and the empire's Armenian subjects. She has authored “Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo (Syracuse University Press, 2008) and Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide (Stanford University Press, 2023) as well as several articles on gender, Ottoman Armenians, urban history, and law in the Ottoman Empire. She is currently writing the history of Aleppo's Armenian community from Ottoman rule to the present disappearance of Armenians from the post-war landscape.
THE EVENT IS FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - RSVP REQUIRED
609.652.4699 or HRC@Stockton.edu
Co-sponsored by:
Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG) & The Armenian Studies Initiative
For NJ Educators: 2.0 PDH (Professional Development Hours)
