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We invite you to the presentation of the historian Dr. Boris Adjemian titled as “Writing the History of a Vanishing Homeland in Diaspora: Armenians in Ethiopia”. The presentation will focus on the memories and narratives of Armenian immigration to Ethiopia from the end of the 19th century. It will emphasize the original status that Armenians enjoyed within the Ethiopian society throughout the 20th century.

Date: December 6th, 2017, Wednesday
Time: 18.30
Place: Hrant Dink Foundation, Havak Hall

Presentation:

Dr. Boris Adjemian
“Writing the History of a Vanishing Homeland in Diaspora: Armenians in Ethiopia (19th-20th c.)”

The presentation will be in English. Simultaneous translation will be available.

The speech will be broadcast live on Facebook.

Boris Adjemian is a historian and the director of AGBU Nubar Library (Paris). He is also the editor-in-chief of the bilingual academic journal Études arméniennes contemporaines and a member of the editorial board of Vingtième Siècle: Revue d'histoire. He defended his PhD in 2011 at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Università degli Studi di Napoli. His first book, entitled La fanfare du négus: les Arméniens en Éthiopie (19e-20e siècles), was published by Éditions de l’EHESS in 2013. With Alexandra Garbarini, he has also published Victim Testimony and Understanding Mass Violence (special issue of Études arméniennes contemporaines, no. 5, June 2015, 244 p.) and, with Sossie Andézian and Talin Suciyan, Jerusalem in the Making: Spaces and Communities (special issue of Études arméniennes contemporaines, no. 9, September 2017, 256 p.)