Ara Sarafian, director of the Gomidas Institute in London, will discuss the publication of a new special edition of “Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story,” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17, at Fresno State. The free, public lecture will be at the Alice Peters Auditorium in the Peters Business Building (Room 191) and is co-sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program and the Leon S. Peters Foundation. The Gomidas Institute is a leading research and publication center related to modern Armenian history. Sarafian, an archival historian specializing in late Ottoman history, will discuss how starting in the 1980s, Turkish authorities embarked on a concerted forward policy to deny the Armenian genocide in the United States. “An object of denial was the legacy of Henry Morgenthau, the American ambassador to Ottoman Turkey between 1913 and 1916,” said Barlow Der Mugrdechian, coordinator of the Armenian Studies Program. Morgenthau’s memoir, “Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story,” was an indictment of the Young Turks for the denial. Sarafian will provide an analysis of how the book was made into the object of denial and how deniers of the Armenian genocide claim that Morgenthau was an errant witness to the genocide, Der Mugrdechian said. Parking is available free in lots P5 and P6 with an event coupon. INFO (and for free parking code): Armenian Studies Program at 559.278.2669 or visit the www.fresnostate.edu/armenianstudies. Details: bit.ly/FS-ArmenianSerafin.
