Photography and Archive Fever in Richard Kalinoski’s Beast on the Moon (1995) by Laurence Petit

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Efforts to create an erroneous perception in historiography: The case of Stefan Ihrig by Murat Köylü

“…These include the Blue Book, which portrays the 1915 events as the Armenian genocide, George Horton's "The Scourge of Asia", which claims that the Great Smyrna Fire was started by the Turks, and Margaret Housepian Dobkin's "Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City". …”
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Examining the Claims about the Relationship Between the Holocaust, and the Armenian Deportation by Murat Köylü

“…In particular, the book attempted to establish a similarity between the Armenian deportation and the Holocaust, and in order to strengthen the "so-called Armenian Genocide" allegations, some media outlets supporting the Armenian allegations began to support the book. …”
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La résistance comme transmission et amour de l’héritage by Janine Altounian

“…Taking as an example the Journal de deportation written by a survivor of the 1915 Armenian genocide, we aim at showing how tightly a man’s power of resistance is bound to his unconditional attachment to the values and precepts handed down from his culture and his ancestors. …”
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Les immigrés, rescapés d’un génocide, sont des émigrés de nulle part by Janine Altounian

“…From an experience which is familiar to me, this paper deals with a type of immigration, paradoxical in its terms since its reference place does not exist any more and is not registered any more in the world as having ever existed: that of the descendants of survivors of the Armenian genocide who, abandoning Constantinople in the 20s, landed in Marseilles as political refugees and imported manpower, provided with a passport being marked “without possible return”.…”
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Quand Aznavour va chanter Les disparus… by Janine Altounian

“…The paper starts by questioning the particular acuity of what these heirs to the survivors of the Armenian genocide of 1915 feel when, 91 years later, the last witnesses leave them. …”
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Objevená a ztracená paměť kurdských hor. Cesta Josefa Wünsche do Arménie a Kurdistánu by Veronika Faktorová

“…At the beginning of the 20th century, the Armenian genocide took place in the region.…”
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Les Arméniens de Constantinople au xixe siècle. Éssai de topographie urbaine. by Taline Ter Minassian

“…Therefore, it is relevant to study how Armenians – established ones as well as newcomers – build their own social sphere and become the agents of a certain Westernisation of the urban and cultural landscape of the Ottoman metropolis at the very eve of their own disappearance as a community after the Armenian genocide and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.…”
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From Terrorism to Politics, the World Armenian Congresses (1979-1985) by mustafa, sarı

“…The overall objective of the Congresses was to combine the Armenians scattered in different parts of the world in a political platform and by doing so make world states, at first Turkey, accept the Armenian Genocide. However, two main problems were about the congresses. …”
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Connections and Disconnections in the Armenian Transnation: the Case of Armenian Americans and Armenia by Anouche Der Sarkissian

“…The long history of Armenian migration to North America has given rise to a visible ethno-cultural community that has been at the forefront of multifaceted efforts to preserve the ancestral culture, assist Armenia, and campaign for certain causes, with recognition of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 being the most emblematic. However, despite this “special relationship”, for more than a century, the connection between Armenian Americans and the Republic of Armenia has been complex, consisting of cooperation, dependence, disagreements, contested leadership and thwarted dreams. …”
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