Reporting from New York - Important Conferences
The Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center in conjunction with the Zoryan Institute and The Middle
East and Middle Eastern American Center (Graduate Center, City University of New York) are organizing a
conference on World War I and the Non-Turkish Minorities in the Ottoman Empire: Armenian, Assyrians
and Greeks. This is a major scholarly event with presentations by US based and international academics. The
conference is supported by the Pan Pontian Federation of USA and Canada.
The goal of the research center—unique in its kind—is to raise awareness about what happened to the Greek
communities of the later Ottoman Empire, and to create resources about the topic that can be made available to
larger audiences in the English speaking world. Though our main focus is the study of the Ottoman Greeks, our
perspective is broad. We seek to develop a multidimensional community of scholarship in collaboration with
Armenian, Assyrian, Jewish and Turkish scholars to gain better insight into the events of that time. The
conference we are organizing is part of this collaborative program.
Scholars from around the world will be presenting original research on the Ottoman Turkish Genocides –
Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek –to yield new insight into the overall strategy, planning, execution and aftermath
of the campaign to eliminate the native Christian populations of Asia Minor. This is the second major
international conference that we have organized in collaboration with the Zoryan Institute, dedicated to the study
of the Christian Genocides of the later Ottoman Empire. The conference also provides innovative analyses and
insights from a broad range of disciplines and perspectives.
The conference will be hosted by the prestigious Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (Graduate
Center, City University of New York) at 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street).
East and Middle Eastern American Center (Graduate Center, City University of New York) are organizing a
conference on World War I and the Non-Turkish Minorities in the Ottoman Empire: Armenian, Assyrians
and Greeks. This is a major scholarly event with presentations by US based and international academics. The
conference is supported by the Pan Pontian Federation of USA and Canada.
The goal of the research center—unique in its kind—is to raise awareness about what happened to the Greek
communities of the later Ottoman Empire, and to create resources about the topic that can be made available to
larger audiences in the English speaking world. Though our main focus is the study of the Ottoman Greeks, our
perspective is broad. We seek to develop a multidimensional community of scholarship in collaboration with
Armenian, Assyrian, Jewish and Turkish scholars to gain better insight into the events of that time. The
conference we are organizing is part of this collaborative program.
Scholars from around the world will be presenting original research on the Ottoman Turkish Genocides –
Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek –to yield new insight into the overall strategy, planning, execution and aftermath
of the campaign to eliminate the native Christian populations of Asia Minor. This is the second major
international conference that we have organized in collaboration with the Zoryan Institute, dedicated to the study
of the Christian Genocides of the later Ottoman Empire. The conference also provides innovative analyses and
insights from a broad range of disciplines and perspectives.
The conference will be hosted by the prestigious Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (Graduate
Center, City University of New York) at 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street).