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October 26, 2015
AGBU Central Office Hosts Presentation on a Family of Ottoman Armenian Photographers
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Armen T. Marsoobian is the chair of the Department of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University and is the editor of the journal Metaphilosophy. -
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On October 15, the AGBU Central Office welcomed Armen Marsoobian for a presentation about his latest book, Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia. -
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On October 15, the AGBU Central Office welcomed Armen Marsoobian for a presentation about his latest book, Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia. The event, co-sponsored by AGBU Ararat, the Armenian Network of America–Greater New York Region, the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society of New York, the New York Armenian Students’ Association of New York, St. Leon Armenian Church and the Tekeyan Cultural Association of Greater New York, focused on the history of the Dildilian family, photographers during the late Ottoman period, throughout World War I and the Turkish War of Independence.
Armen T. Marsoobian is the chair of the Department of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University and is the editor of the journal Metaphilosophy. He has lectured and published extensively on topics in American philosophy, aesthetics, moral philosophy and genocide studies. He has also edited five books, including The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy and Genocide’s Aftermath: Responsibility and Repair. He is a descendant of the Dildilian family and has organized exhibitions in Greece, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States based on his family’s Ottoman-era photography collection.
“In writing this book and organizing the exhibitions, I see myself as bearing witness to my family’s story. Yet it is my grandfather, his siblings and their children who have done the bulk of the work of bearing witness. Aside from the more than 800 Ottoman-era photographs I have received from them, hundreds and hundreds of pages of memoirs, speeches and letters have survived that provide a truly fascinating account of what their lives were like in the decades that span both sides of the twentieth century. This wealth of visual and textual material makes the Dildilian story unique and unlike most diasporan Armenian stories,” writes Marsoobian.
For more information on Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia, please visit the AGBU Bookstore.
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