A two day international conference

Day 1-7:00PM-University Business Center, Fresno State

Keynote speaker: Dr. Hans Lukas Kieser

Victoria Abrahamyan (University of Neuchâtel)
“The Contested Armenian Participation in the Syrian Great Revolt, 1925-1926”

Ara Sarafian
(Gomidas Institute)
“The Great Drought/Famine of Van and Kurdish Armenian Relations cir. 1880”

Sam Dolbee
(Vanderbilt University)
“Hovhannes Doumanian and the Last Ottoman Agronomists”

Day 2-10:00AM-Smittcamp Alumni House, Fresno State

Robert Sukiasyan
(Yerevan State Univ & AUA)
“A Scheme for Extortion and Targeted Eliminations of Surviving Sivas Armenian Community Leaders in the Summer of 1915”

Ümit Kurt
(University of Newcastle NSW)
“The Fate of Armenian Family Wealth: Confiscation of Property in Ottoman Aintab during the First World War”

Hazal Özdemir
(Northwestern University)
“They Vowed to Never Return: Bureaucratic Violence and Border-Building in the
Ottoman Empire”