Dr. Nefissa Naguib (Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway) gives a talk this week called “Visitors: Armenian Orphans in Jerusalem” ( Tuesday March 6, 5pm, Green College).
A lecture on how genocide, loss and deportation are experienced, conceptualized and generated among Armenians in Jerusalem, based on Dr. Naguib’s fieldwork and ongoing research on the Armenian Diaspora. Her presentation will focus upon the deportation of Armenians from Eastern Anatolia/now Turkey in 1915 to the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. It will sketch a history of the arrival of orphans and the immediate relief efforts which followed in an attempt to get at the individual stories which will tell us more about impacts of relief efforts on individual lives and how wider forces of history, altered by moments of conflict, are brought to bear on the lives of this community today.
Jointly sponsored by Green College and the Department of Anthropology.