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Vardanyan, Gevorg · Hakobyan, Narine, 2025
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 54–80 (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0063
Examines Ottoman denial of the Hamidian massacres (1894–1896) inside the United States, centered on Ottoman Minister Alexander Mavroyeni Bey and his collaborators. The Ottoman legation in Washington reframed reports of anti-Armenian violence as justified responses to 'sedition,' and the authors argue this was not merely exported internal propaganda but a distinct transnational strategy built for American audiences. Mavroyeni Bey drew analogies to US treatment of Native Americans, appealed to American sovereignty, and worked with the American Muslim convert Alexander Russell Webb to delegitimize Armenian-American activism and discredit missionaries. Armenian-Americans were the campaign's primary target because of their grassroots organizing and their influence on humanitarian mobilization. The study pushes the history of denial back from 1915 into the Hamidian era.
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Toulajian, Sophie-Zoé, 2025
International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2025), pp. 125–141 (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation, Yerevan); DOI 10.51442/ijags.0073
This article reconstructs the 1979 march from Lyon organized by Armenian activists in France demanding acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide. Toulajian argues that street protest had a performative impact, consistently inserting the genocide question into the French public sphere through a transnational repertoire of activism. She shows how the marchers embodied overlapping identities at once, French, Armenian, diasporic, and global, and how the mobilization responded to both local French circumstances and international developments. The study situates Armenian activism within the broader landscape of 1970s protest movements rather than treating it in isolation. Methodologically, it makes a case for connected histories and multiple timelines as tools for understanding diasporic political engagement. The article appears in a special issue on law, activism, and the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide edited by Julien Zarifian and Edita Gzoyan.
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Volkhonsky, Mikhail A. · Yarlykapov, Akhmet A., 2022
История, археология и этнография Кавказа / History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Caucasus, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 1126–1140
A study of the protracted 2012–2019 conflict in Armavir (Krasnodar Krai) between city authorities and the local branch of the Union of Armenians of Russia over a memorial plaque to Garegin Nzhdeh placed near the Armenian church. The authors use the dispute to identify the commemorative politics practiced by the Armenian diaspora in Russia. The conflict turns on the incompatibility of two collective memories: for Russian Armenians Nzhdeh is primarily a national hero of the struggle for Armenian independence, while in the dominant Russian memory he is a figure who dealt with Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
