Confronting Armenian Genocide Denial: Is Acknowledgement Enough?

Maral N. Attallah
Distinguished Lecturer, Humboldt State University

Warren Auditorium of Ives Hall on the SSU campus
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Maral N. Attallah, Distinguished Lecturer, Humboldt State University

Please join us on Tuesday, March 10th for the eighth lecture in the 2020 series on the Holocaust and Genocide at Sonoma State University from 4-5:50 p.m. in Warren Auditorium of Ives Hall on the SSU campus. 

Maral N. Attallah, Humboldt State University Distinguished Lecturer, will be speaking on “Confronting Armenian Genocide Denial: Is Acknowledgement Enough?”

Professor Attallah’s areas of specialization include comparative genocide studies, race and ethnic relations, and identity politics. She pays particular attention to issues of colonization, immigration, and recognition of genocide and genocide denial. Her scholarship focuses heavily on exposing the perspectives and voices of marginalized groups in society.

She has been a fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College. Professor Attallah has presented her research on genocide denial at national and international conferences and is recognized by genocide scholars as an emerging expert on the Armenian Genocide.