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Armenian Studies - A House in the Homeland:Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory

Armenian Studies - A House in the Homeland:Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory

Presented by Dr. Carel Bertram, Prof. Emerita, San Francisco State University

University Business Center • Alice Peters Auditorium

YouTube live stream: bit.ly/armenianstudiesyoutube

Following the Armenian Genocide of 1915, the United States became an important refuge for genocide survivors. For these survivors, even the idea of returning to a homeland emptied of Armenians and filled with memories of death and terror was unthinkable, and few ever saw their beloved homes again. But slowly and much later, the survivors’ children and then their grandchildren, calling themselves pilgrims, began to make forays to Turkey in search of their families' lost houses in the towns and villages that they had heard so much about. Between 2007 and 2015, Carel Bertram traveled with over a hundred such pilgrims and was in contact with many more, resulting in her book A House in the Homeland, Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory (Stanford University Press, 2022). In this talk, Bertram brings these pilgrimages and their impact to life by telling some of their stories. 

Carel Bertram is Professor Emerita in the Middle East and Islamic Studies, Dept. of Humanities, San Francisco State University. Her MA in Near Eastern Studies was taken at the University of California at Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Islamic Art History at UCLA.  

"A House in the Homeland" will be on sale at the lecture.

Free parking in Lot P6 or P5 near the UBC with a parking permit code available at the lecture. 

Thursday, October 20, 2022


Contact:

Barlow Der Mugrdechian

Phone: 559-278-2669

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5245 N Backer Ave
Fresno, CA 93740

Cost:

Free and open to the public