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“Preserved with Compassion: Collections of Hope” by Dr. Talin Suciyan

February 28 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST

Free

This talk will present one of the largest known collections of postcards of Ottoman Armenian villages and towns, dated both before and after 1915. In the absence of visual material from the old country, this collection provides a vivid picture of the towns and villages, architectural monuments and social environment of the time. They belong to the archive of the Fenerci family, an Armenian family living in Montreal. Meticulously categorized and carefully preserved, the collection itself is one of the most important acts of memory preservation. The lecture will present the postcards and associated documents along with the logic of their categorization to trace the mental steps of the collection’s creator.
Talin Suciyan is Kazan Visiting Professor of Armenian Studies at Fresno State. She was born and raised in Istanbul. After graduating from the University of Istanbul, she continued her studies in Germany, where she obtained her Ph.D. Based in Munich, she has been teaching and researching at the Institute for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Munich over 15 years. She is the author of Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces (Syracuse University Press, 2023) and The Armenians in Modern Turkey: Post-Genocide Society, History and Politics (I. B. Tauris, 2016). Her research focuses on Armenians in the Middle East and Mediterranean. Her areas of interests are colonialism, histories of the autochthonous populations, medicine, peasantry and temporality.

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Date:
February 28
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PST
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://cah.fresnostate.edu/armenianstudies/news-events/index.html

Organizer

Armenian Studies Program, Fresno State
Phone
559.278.2669
Email
barlowd@csufresno.edu
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Venue

Smittcamp Alumni House
2625 E Matoian Way
Fresno, CA 93740 United States
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(559) 278-2761
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