The Forgotten Genocide at 100:
Why the Armenian Genocide Still Matters Today
Political Science and Public Policy Programmes
in conjunction with the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs (Waikato)
Branch)
When:
Wednesday 5 August, 6.00pm
Where:
J.2.18 (J Block, Second Floor, University of Waikato)
Abstract: On April 24, 100 years ago, Ottoman Turkey began its systematic annihilation of its indigenous
Christian population - particularly the Armenians, but also the Assyrians and Greeks, who lived within its
borders. The atrocities became a model for future genocidal regimes, including the Nazi regime of Adolf
Hitler. On the eve of World War II, Hitler argued that history would support him, remarking, “Who, after all,
speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” What have we learned from what scholars have
called the first major Genocide of the Twentieth Century? What does it mean in today’s context? Can
current genocides be stopped and future genocides be prevented?
Presenter Bio: Dr Maria Armoudian is a lecturer at the University of Auckland, the author of Kill the
Messenger: The Media’s Role in the Fate of the World, and the host and producer of the syndicated
radio programme, The Scholars’ Circle. She has served as an environmental commissioner for the
City of Los Angeles and worked for the California State Legislature, prior to which she worked a
journalist. Dr Armoudian is currently working on a book about war correspondents. She is also a
musician and songwriter. Her CD, Life in the New World, was released in 2006.
You are welcome to join us for refreshments in J.2.12 from 5.30pm
For more information, please contact Professor Dov Bing at [email protected]