Persistent Past

Interviewee

Ronald Grigor Suny

Files

Interviewer

USF Libraries Holocaust and Genocide Studies Center

Publication Date

5-2-2012

Time Period

20th century

Abstract

A century ago the Young Turk government carried out deportations and massacres of various peoples in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Jews, Arabs, and others. Several of these brutal relocations have been designated 'genocide,' yet the current Turkish state, along with the United States and other countries, refuses to label any of them 'genocide.' The denial of past violence and its erasure from historical memory has allowed violence and human rights abuses to continue, worldwide, to the present day. Historian Ronald Grigor Suny discusses these issues in a entitled The Persistent Past at the USF Tampa Library on Monday, April 23rd, 2012. Dr. Suny is the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History and Director of the Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies at the University of Michigan, as well as Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago.

Keywords

Genocide, Armenians, Armenian massacres, 1915-1923

Subject: geographic

Turkey,

Holding Location

University of South Florida

Language

English

Format

video/mp4

Identifier

U31-00012

Recommended Citation

Suny, Ronald Grigor, "Persistent Past" (2012). USF Library Presentations and Lectures. 2.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_lib_lectures/2