Students Attend Armenian Genocide Conference in Istanbul

Four Stanford Students to Travel to Istanbul, Turkey

April 24, 2015 will mark the 100-year anniversary of the concerted Ottoman campaign that resulted in the deaths and exile of the vast majority of Ottoman Armenians.

Stanford Global Studies (SGS) provided travel grants to Anna Blue (Undergraduate Student in International Relations), Alina Utrata (Undergraduate Student in History), Diana Muradova (M.A. Candidate in International Education) and Sabrina Papazian (PhD Candidate in Anthropology) to attend the "The Armenian Genocide: Concepts and Comparative Perspectives" conference in Istanbul on April 26, 2015. Bringing American, European and Turkish scholars together, the conference explores the concept of genocide from a comparative perspective, the forced transfer of children, how the genocide has been mapped in historiography, and the memorialization practices that have enshrined it in collective and historical memory. Through the conference, SGS grantees will interact with civil society leaders, activists, local government officials, and Turkish and Armenian professors and students. They will also have a chance to attend a set of commemoration activities organized by Project2015.