{"title":"Place, Belonging and History: Reflections on the Ottoman Armenian Past and Heritage","authors":"Vahé Tachjian, Boris Adjemian, V. Davidian","doi":"10.4000/eac.2653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/eac.2653","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70068832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scholarship and Introspection in the Time of War","authors":"Boris Adjemian, V. Davidian","doi":"10.4000/eac.2743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/eac.2743","url":null,"abstract":"The outbreak of war on 27 September 2020 in Artsakh/Karabagh led many scholars – especially those among us at the crossroads of Armenian, Turkish, Ottoman, Caucasian and Middle Eastern studies – towards reflection upon the legitimacy, goals, practices and ethics of scholarly research in a context of full-scale war, naked hatred and unveiled threats of annihilation. The unleashing of extreme violence that raged uninterrupted for 44 continuous days caused much distress. The war also brought hom...","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70069095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"David Gutman, The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885-1915: Sojourners, Smugglers, and Dubious Citizens","authors":"Anouche Der Sarkissian","doi":"10.4000/eac.2709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/eac.2709","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70068996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is Armenia to Me? Diasporicity in the Works of William Saroyan","authors":"A. Ghoogasian","doi":"10.4000/eac.2615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/eac.2615","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues for a rereading of William Saroyan, one that treats him as an artist who engaged critically with concepts of home and homeland within the broader discourse of diaspora. Saroyan was not a panegyrist who idealized what it meant to be an Armenian in diaspora, nor did his Armenianness act as a foil to an optimistic outlook. Rather, his works exhibit a rigorous investigation of the characteristic liminality of diaspora and its attendant contradictions.","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70068781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christine Babikian Assaf, Carla Eddé, Lévon Nordiguian, Vahé Tachjian (dir.), Les Arméniens du Liban. Cent ans de présence","authors":"Boris Adjemian","doi":"10.4000/eac.2294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/eac.2294","url":null,"abstract":"La communaute armenienne du Liban, qui s’est formee essentiellement a la suite du genocide, occupe une place importante et singuliere au sein de la diaspora armenienne. Dans la deuxieme moitie du 20e siecle, et jusqu’a la guerre civile libanaise (1975-1990), Beyrouth a ete l’un des principaux centres culturels de cette diaspora – d’aucuns parleraient meme de capitale. Comme le rappelle Razmik Panossian dans sa preface, parler de capitale diasporique – c’est-a-dire d’un centre dans un phenomen...","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47710525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financing the Ruling Party and Its Militants in Wartime:The Armenian Genocide and the Kemah Massacres of 1915","authors":"Hilmar Kaiser","doi":"10.4000/EAC.1942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/EAC.1942","url":null,"abstract":"Based largely on Ottoman documentation, the article discusses the deportations in the eastern Ottoman province of Erzerum in general and more specifically the massacres in and around Kemah in Erzindjan district. It highlights the central role of key perpetrators like Tahsin [Uzer], Ebu Hindi Djafer Bey, Fuat Sabit [Agacik] and other CUP and Teshkilat-i Mahsusa operatives, as well as that of CUP-controlled civil organizations. Critically, the available evidence provides new insights into the plundering of movable Armenian property and the distribution of the booty. While the economic interests of the ruling party and those of perpetrators on the ground shaped the annihilation of Armenian deportees, commanders, killers, and the ruling party in Constantinople competed for the spoils. Even during this period, a 1915-1916 Ottoman court martial investigation on corruption in connection with the Kemah massacres produced conclusive evidence on the premeditated and state-sponsored nature of the crime.","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70068335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vahé Tachjian, Daily Life in the Abyss: Genocide Diaries 1915-1918","authors":"Boris Adjemian","doi":"10.4000/eac.2283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/eac.2283","url":null,"abstract":"Les recents grands colloques internationaux qui ont eu lieu en France, aux Etats-Unis et ailleurs a l’occasion du centenaire du genocide des Armeniens, en 2015, ont rappele s’il en etait besoin que ce genocide n’est devenu un objet de recherche scientifique que depuis un temps relativement court, et que de larges pans de son histoire sont encore en friche, quand ils ne sont pas entierement vierges. L’historiographie du genocide, qui s’est professionnalisee a partir des annees 1980 ou 1990 seu...","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70068648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vahagn Avedian, Knowledge and Acknowledgement in the Politics of Memory of the Armenian Genocide","authors":"Julien Zarifian","doi":"10.4000/eac.2318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/eac.2318","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge and Acknowledgement in the Politics of Memory of the Armenian Genocide, de Vahagn Avedian, docteur en histoire de l’universite de Lund, en Suede, est un ouvrage important. Tire de la these de l’auteur, soutenue en 2017, c’est sans doute la premiere etude longue, de fond, qui envisage le genocide de 1915 non pas (uniquement) comme un objet historique, mais egalement et avant tout comme un objet politique, geopolitique et memoriel, et qui en etudie les incidences recentes (depuis 1965...","PeriodicalId":31125,"journal":{"name":"Etudes Armeniennes Contemporaines","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70068744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}