[Sehefac] Book Talk (In person): Elyse Semerdjian: Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide

[Gloria Kim]

Dear Colleagues,


I'm so excited to announce this talk by Elyse Semerdjian. The talk is
hosted by GSST and Co sponsored by MCS. The talk would be of interest to
anyone thinking about genocide, memory and resistance, the body as archive
and repository of information, feminist methodology, oral histories and
more.


Please share this announcement widely with other colleagues/ depts , and
your students. Description and flyers below.


Best,

Gloria

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Elyse Semerdjian | Professor, Robert Aram and Marianne *Kaloosdian* and
Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at the
Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University



April 23rd, Tuesday, 4-5:30 PM

In-Person: UCR INTS 1113 CHASS Interdisciplinary Symposium Room

Co-sponsored by the Departments of Media & Cultural Studies and Gender &
Sexuality Studies



A Book Talk: *Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide*



In her book *Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide *(Stanford
University Press, 2023), Professor Elyse Semerdjian explores the ongoing
reverberations of the Armenian Genocide. Foremost among the images of the
Armenian Genocide is the specter of tattooed Islamized Armenian women. Blue
tribal tattoos that covered face and body signified assimilation into
Muslim Bedouin and Kurdish households. Among Armenians, the tattooed
survivor was seen as a living ethnomartyr or, alternatively, a national
stain, and the bodies of women and children figured centrally within the
Armenian communal memory and humanitarian imaginary. In *Remnants*, these
tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal a larger history, as the lived
trauma of genocide is understood through bodies, skin, and—in what remains
of those lives a century afterward—bones.

Gloria Chan-Sook Kim (she/her)
Assistant Professor of Media and Culture
Department of Media and Culture
CHASS South Building, INTS 3137
University of California-Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521
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