International Affairs Building, Room 1501
420 W. 118th St.
Symposium on “Monuments and Memory: Material Culture and the Aftermaths of Histories of Mass Violence,” with a focus on the ruins of the Armenian city of Ani, to be held at Columbia University, February 20, 2015.
Program
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, a groundbreaking symposium will be held at Columbia and sponsored by the Armenian Center of Columbia University, Columbia’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Peter Balakian, Donald M. Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities at Colgate University, and Rachel Goshgarian, Assistant Professor of History at Lafayette College, are organizers and hosts of the event.
The symposium will be groundbreaking in its comparative analysis of Jewish monuments in Eastern Europe, Muslim monuments in the Balkans, and Armenian Christian monuments in Turkey. Issues of preservation, social justice, and restitution will be discussed.
The symposium will take place in Room 1501 of Columbia University’s Morningside Campus International Affairs Building, located at 420 West 118th Street, from 10 am until 6 pm with breaks for lunch and coffee. A reception will follow. This event is free and open to the public.
