The aftermath of mass killings and deportations in 1915 still reverberates in Turkey today. In this talk, Professor Ronald Grigor Suny will discuss the complex interconnections among the Armenians, Kurds, and Turks, and the architecture of current politics in Turkey. The experience of genocide has irrevocably shaped the lives of the descendants of those perpetrators and victims of the events 107 years ago, as well as distorted the politics of Turkey today.

10 November, 7 pm, in person

Venue: UCL Gideon Schreier Lecture Theatre, 124 Bentham House, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG

This event is free but please register below

Bio:

RONALD GRIGOR SUNY is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago. First holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan (1981-1995), he founded and directed the Armenian Studies Program there. Prof. Suny is author of numerous books from The Baku Commune, 1917-1918: Class and Nationality in the Russian Revolution (1972) to more recent publications: “They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide (2015) [Winner of the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies]; Red Flag Unfurled: Historians, the Russian Revolution, and the Soviet Experiment (2017); and Stalin: Passage to Revolution (2020), winner of the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize. Influential books he has edited or co-edited include Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation (1999); A State of Nations: Empire and Nation-making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (2001); and A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire (2011). Professor Suny’s intellectual interests have centered on the non-Russian nationalities of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, particularly those of the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia).