This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam's role as the first Turkish intellectual to publicly recognize the Armenian Genocide. As a researcher, lecturer, and mentor to a new generation of scholars, Akçam has led the effort to utilize previously unknown, ignored, or under-studied sources, whether in Turkish, Armenian, German, or other languages, thus immeasurably expanding and deepening the scholarly project of documenting and analyzing the Armenian Genocide.

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Honors the life and the work of Taner Akçam, the first Turkish intellectual to acknowledge the Armenian genocide Includes twelve contributions from Armenian genocide scholars around the globe Sheds new light on the historiography of the genocide, its perpetrators, victims, and bystanders

Autorentext

Thomas Kühne is Strassler Colin Flug Professor of Holocaust History and Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, USA.

Mary Jane Rein is Executive Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, USA.

Marc A. Mamigonian is Director of Academic Affairs at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Part I: Women and Girls.- The Victims of Safety: The Destiny of Armenian Women and Girls Who Were Not Deported from Trabzon.- Cohabitating in Captivity: Vartouhie Calantar Nalbandian (Zarevand) at the Women's Section of Istanbul's Central Prison (1915-1918).- Reenacting Testimony: The Armenian Genocide, Early Cinema, and Humanitarianism.- Part II: Agency and Assistance.- Special Kind of Refugees: Assisting Armenians in Erzincan, Bayburt, and Erzurum.- On the Verge of Death and Survival: Krikor Bogharian's diary.- Categories and their Interstices: The Armenian Genocide Beyond Resistance and Accommodation.- Part III: Genocide and Society.- The Property Law and the Spoliation of Ottoman Armenians.- Refocusing on Crimes Against Humanity.- Taner Akcam as Scholar-Activist and Armenian-Turkish Relations.- Part IV: Consensus and Debate.- The Margins of Academia or Challenging the Official Ideology.- The Genocide of the Christians, Turkey 1894-1924.- Since the Centennial:New Departures in the Scholarship on the Armenian Genocide, 2015-2021.<p