Kazan Visiting Professors

Dr. Simon Maghakyan
Fall 2024

20th Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

a) "The Past of the Past: Armenian Heritage in Ottoman and Republican Turkey"
-September 27, 2024

b) "The Present of the Past: The State of Armenian Heritage in Turkey"
-October 11, 2024

c) "The Future of the Past: Pathways for Saving Armenian Vestiges in Turkey"
-November 8, 2024

Dr. Hrag Papazian
Fall 2022

19th Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

"Armenians and ‘Other Armenians’ in Contemporary Turkey"

a) "The Christian Armenian Community"
- September 9, 2022

b) "Muslim and Alevi Armenians"
- October 7, 2022

c) "The Migrants from Armenia"
-November 1, 2022

Dr. Suren Manukyan
Fall 2021

18th Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

a) "Architects of the Armenian Genocide: The Top-Level Perpetrators"
- September 17, 2021

b) "Bureaucrats of the Armenian Genocide: The Mid-Level Perpetrators"
- October 15, 2021

c) "Ordinary Killers of the Armenian Genocide: The Lower-Level Perpetrators"
- November 12, 2021

Dr. Ohannes Kılıçdağı
Fall 2020

17th Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

a) "'Living Together Requires Dying Together': Conscription of Armenians into the Ottoman Armenia after the 1908 Revolution"
- September 18, 2020

b) "Subjects or Citizens?: Armenians from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic"
- October 16, 2020

c) "The Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul under the Light of the Last Crisis of the Patriarchal Election"
- November 16, 2020

Dr. Ari Şekeryan
Spring 2020

16th Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

a) "An Untold Story of Survival: The Armenian Community in Istanbul during the Armistice Years (1918-1923)"
-February 7, 2020

b) "The Survivors: Armenian Orphans and Refugees after the First World War (1918-1923)" -March 5, 2020

c) "The Armenian Patriarchate, Politics and the Postwar Settlement in Istanbul: The Story of Patriarch Zaven" 
-April 2, 2020

Dr. Ümit Kurt
Fall 2018

15th Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

a) "A Rescuer, an Enigma, and a Génocidaire: Cemal Pasha"
-September 21, 2018

b) "Proactive Local Perpetrators: Mehmet Yasin (Sani Kutluğ) and Ali Cenani" -October 16, 2018

c) "The Curious Case of Ahmed Necmeddin Bey: A Look into the Sociopolitical Climate in Aintab on the Eve of 1915" 
-November 6, 2018

Dr. Yektan Türkyilmaz
Spring 2018

14th Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

a) "Van/Vaspurakan Armenians: From Renaissance to Resistance and Genocide"- February 6, 2018

b) "Armenians on Records: Music Production from Homeland to Diasporas" -March 7, 2018

c) "(Re)-Evaluating the Decision-Making Processes in the Armenian Genocide" -April 17, 2018

Dr. Khatchig Mouradian
Fall 2016

13th Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

"Genocide and Resilience"

a) "Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria: 1915-1917"- September 20, 2016

b) "'Don't Fall Off the Earth': The Armenian Communities in China from the 1880s to the 1950s" -October 20, 2016

c) "The Tale of Two Mid-Wives: The Notebooks of Siphora and Nuritza Shnorhokian of Aintab, 1890-1930" -November 30, 2016

Dr. Roberta Ervine
Spring 2016

12th Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

"In the Harsh Light of Genocide: Insights of Selected Armenian Thinkers”

a) "Armenians on Immortality" -February 29, 2016

b) "Armenians on What Matters Most" -March 30, 2016

c) "Holy Vengeance: Three Hierarchs of the Genocide Speak to America’s Armenians" -April 27, 2016

Dr. Myrna Douzjian
Spring 2015

11th Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

"The Armenian Genocide in Film: Theoretical & Comparative Perspectives"

a) "The Genocide as Allegory in Serge Avedikian's Chienne d'histoire"-February 11, 2015

b) "Atom Egoyan's Ararat: Traumatic Histories and Transnational Identities"-March 19, 2015

c) "Reinventing the Genocide Documentary: Memories without Borders and Solemnity"-April 8, 2015

Dr. Sona Haroutyunian
Spring 2013

10th Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

"The Theme of the Armenian Genocide in Literature, Translation, and Cinema"

a) "The Armenian Genocide in Literature" -February 25, 2013

b) "The Armenian Genocide in Translation" -March 14, 2013

c) "The Armenian Genocide in Cinema" -April 10, 2013

Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian
Spring 2011

9th Kazan Visiting Professor

Two Public Lectures:

"Armenian-American Literature in English"

a) "Armenian-American Literature: The First Generation"
-February 23, 2011

b) "The Theme of Genocide in Twentieth Century Armenian-American Literature"-April 27, 2011

Dr. Abraham Terian
Spring 2010

8th Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

"In the Darkness of the Genocide"

a) "Armenian Identity and the Genocide" –February 17, 2010

b) "The Loud Cry: Early Literary Responses to the Genocide"–March 11, 2010

c) "The Less-Known Victims of the Armenian Genocide" –April 29, 2010

Dr. George Bournoutian
Spring 2009

7th Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

"The Armenian Church Under Foreign Rule: 16th-20th Centuries (Russia, South Asia, and Iran)"

a) "The Armenian Church Under Persian Rule: 1600-1800"
-March 3, 2009

b) "The Armenian Church under Russian Rule: 1600-1800"
-March 24, 2009

c) "The Armenian Church in South Asia: 1600-1800" -April 21, 2009

Dr. Levon Chookaszian
Fall 2006

6th Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

"Armenian Massacres and Genocide Reflected in Armenian Art of the 20th Century"

a) "The Armenian Painters of Constantinople at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries" -September 27, 2006

b) "Armenian Massacres and Genocide and the Liberation Movement as Reflected in Armenian Art" -October 18, 2006

c) Armenian Art Treasures Saved from the Genocide"-November 15, 2006

Dr. James Reid
Spring 2006

5th Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

"Inner Dimensions of the Armenian Genocide"

a) "The Effect of World War I on the Human Psyche" -February 21, 2006

b) "The 'Death World' and its Influence on Victim Survivors" -March 22, 2006

c) "Symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Genocide Survivor Writing" -April 25, 2006

Dr. Ara Sanjian
Fall 2003

4th Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

"The Armenian Quest for Mountainous Karabagh Under Soviet Rule: 1923-1988"

a) "The Question of Mountainous Karabagh in Soviet Armenian Politics, 1923-1987" -September 24, 2003

b) "The Armenian Quest for Mountainous Karabagh and the Diaspora: 1923-1987" -October 15, 2003

c) "The Armenian Church Under Soviet Rule" -November 19, 2003

Dr. Barbara Merguerian
Fall 2002

3rd Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

"The Armenian Question in United States Foreign Policy"

a) "The Impact of the American Missionaries" -October 22, 2002

b) "The Witness of the American Consulates" -November 12, 2002

c) "Isolationism vs. Internationalism in US Foreign Policy: The Case of Armenia" -December 6, 2002

Dr. Robert Hewsen
Fall 2001

2nd Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

"The Conversion of Armenia to Christianity"

a) "Armenia on the Eve of the Conversion" –October 4, 2001

b) "The Conversion of King Trdat: Reading Between The Lines"-November 1, 2001

c) "The Conversion of the Armenian People" –December 6, 2001

Dr. Richard Hovannisian
Fall 2000

1st Kazan Visiting Professor

Three Public Lectures:

"The Armenian Genocide  and Its Denial"

a) "Remembrance and Denial: The Armenian Genocide"- October 8, 2000

b) "The Last Generation of Ottoman Armenians: Bitter Sweet Memories" -October 30, 2000

c) "Historical Memory and Armenian Foreign Affairs" -December 5, 2000