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Drawing on the new co-authored volume, *Heritage Forensics: Cultural on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict*, the presentation examines how cultural sites became entangled in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh during the interwar period (1994-2020). The talk considers how satellite-based heritage forensics is being deployed prospectively, to monitor hundreds of Armenian sites in Karabakh following Azerbaijan's 2023 takeover of the region and the displacement of its Armenian population. In doing so, it asks: how can satellite-based monitoring function as a form of \"counter-forensics,\" turning surveillance technologies developed for military purposes back on the state? Can heritage forensics move us beyond retrospective documentation to actively deter erasure and support truth, reconciliation, and accountability wherever cultural heritage is at stake?\n\nLori Khatchadourian is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology at Cornell University, and co-founder and co-director of Caucasus Heritage Watch. She currently serves as Director of the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies. Khatchadourian\u2019s research spans the fields of archaeology, social anthropology, and heritage studies, with a particular focus on Armenia, the wider South Caucasus, and neighboring regions. Current projects explore the archaeology of modernity, including problems of genocide, deindustrialization, and the entanglements of cultural heritage and war. She is the co-author of *Heritage Forensics: Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict* (Cornell, 2026) and author of Imperial Matter: Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires (UC Press, 2016). She is also co-editor of *Rethinking Empire: Materiality, Metaphysics, and Imperial Politics* (SAR, 2026) and *Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics: The Archaeology of Eurasia *(2017).\n\nhttps:\/\/umich.zoom.us\/j\/99311308952\n\nCosponsors: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Department of Middle East Studies, Department of Linguistics, Department of Anthropology, Classical Studies, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and NAASR.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. 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In his Manoogian Postdoctoral Lecture, Daniel Ohanian takes us into the genre-defying pages of this work, identifying the man (or men?) who produced it, the lies and truths that it contains, and the world that it reveals. Through it, we explore the religious politics of early modern global Catholicism, French-Ottoman diplomacy, and the historiographic benefits of focusing attention on the lives of particular individuals.\n\nDaniel Ohanian is a historian of Armenians in the early modern Ottoman Empire. He is currently working on a cultural history of Catholic-Armenian contact in the c. 1700 Mediterranean and on the eighteenth-century travelogue of a merchant-turned-priest named Hovhannes Tovmajanian. Daniel's research has been supported by grants from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, among others, and has been published in Turcica: revue d'\u00e9tudes turques, the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, and Genocide Studies International.\n\nZoom Webinar ID: 990 5623 7622\n\nCo-sponsors: Department of History (U-M), Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies (U-M), Department of Middle East Studies (U-M), Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies (U-M), National Association for Armenian Studies and Research\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. 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