Dr. Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart associate professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will discuss “Survivors into Minorities: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey” at 7:30 p.m., Monday, April 18 at Fresno State. The free, public lecture at the Alice Peters Auditorium (Peters Business Building, Room 191) is part of the Armenian Studies Program Spring 2016 Lecture Series. The lecture series is supported by the Leon S. Peters Foundation. At MIT, Ekmekcioglu is affiliated with the Women and Gender Studies Program. She specializes on Turkish and Armenian lands in the beginning of the 20th century and the history of Armenian feminism. In 2006 she co-edited a volume in Turkish about the first five Armenian feminists of the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic. Her most recent book, “Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey,” was published by Stanford University Press earlier this year. Free parking is available Lots P5 and P6, near the University Business Center with a parking code. INFO: Armenian Studies Program at 559.278.2669 or www.fresnostate.edu/armenianstudies.
