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Podcast: New Books in Genocide Studies
Episode: Ronald Suny et al., “A Question of Genocide: Armenians and Turks at the End of the Ottoman Empire” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Description: Hitler famously said about the Armenian genocide “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
For much of the last 75 years, few people did in fact speak of it. When they did, the discussion largely revolved around the question of whether the killing deserved the label of genocide. Scholarly analysis did exist. But, in the public mind, it was largely swallowed up in a bitter debate about how to label, remember and interpret these events. Tuning out the vitriolic rhetoric, many of my students thought about Armenia only in the context of the lessons Hitler a...