Presented By: Center for Armenian Studies
CAS Lecture | The Geography of Genocide: Mapping Refugee Movement at the End of World War I
Michelle Tusan, Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL EVENT
Room 555, Weiser Hall
500 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Or participate virtually by registering in advance for the webinar: https://myumi.ch/J899b
After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the webinar.
This talk maps the Armenian Genocide refugee crisis to render visible the human geography of total war. For those stuck in the no man’s land between war and peace in the Ottoman Empire, World War I did not end with the signing of the 1918 armistices or the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. It continued beyond the signing of the 1923 Lausanne Treaty and produced the world’s largest refugee crisis to date while leaving a legacy of political instability that continues to plague the region. Deep maps – rendered using ARC- GIS technology and data from official documents, institutional records, and diaries of aid workers, refugees, and other non-combatants – reveal how refugee routes and war relief infrastructure reconfigured the landscape. The refugee experience of those fleeing genocide took form in the desert, the camp, and on the road during a protracted and seemingly unending war that had important consequences for minorities in the postwar Middle East.
Michelle Tusan is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her publications include “The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide” (2017/2019), “Smyrna’s Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide and the Birth of the Middle East” (2012), and articles in the American Historical Review and Past and Present. A forthcoming piece in the Journal of Modern History, “From Concentration Camp to Site of Refuge,” traces the significance of the camp in the refugee experience during WWI. She is working on a book provisionally entitled, “The Last Treaty: The Middle Eastern Front and the End of the First World War” which rewrites the final years of the war as a story of humanitarian crisis and failed diplomacy.
If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at caswebinars@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
Room 555, Weiser Hall
500 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Or participate virtually by registering in advance for the webinar: https://myumi.ch/J899b
After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the webinar.
This talk maps the Armenian Genocide refugee crisis to render visible the human geography of total war. For those stuck in the no man’s land between war and peace in the Ottoman Empire, World War I did not end with the signing of the 1918 armistices or the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. It continued beyond the signing of the 1923 Lausanne Treaty and produced the world’s largest refugee crisis to date while leaving a legacy of political instability that continues to plague the region. Deep maps – rendered using ARC- GIS technology and data from official documents, institutional records, and diaries of aid workers, refugees, and other non-combatants – reveal how refugee routes and war relief infrastructure reconfigured the landscape. The refugee experience of those fleeing genocide took form in the desert, the camp, and on the road during a protracted and seemingly unending war that had important consequences for minorities in the postwar Middle East.
Michelle Tusan is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her publications include “The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide” (2017/2019), “Smyrna’s Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide and the Birth of the Middle East” (2012), and articles in the American Historical Review and Past and Present. A forthcoming piece in the Journal of Modern History, “From Concentration Camp to Site of Refuge,” traces the significance of the camp in the refugee experience during WWI. She is working on a book provisionally entitled, “The Last Treaty: The Middle Eastern Front and the End of the First World War” which rewrites the final years of the war as a story of humanitarian crisis and failed diplomacy.
If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at caswebinars@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
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