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• 30 jan 2017

  Paris

  Call for papers - History

  The massacres of 1894-1896 in the Ottoman Empire: Genesis, Consequences and Continuities of Extreme Violence

  Theme issue of the journal Études arméniennes contemporaines (EAC n° 8 – Decembre 2017)

  The history of the large-scale massacres committed against the Armenians under the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II, in 1894-1896, is still largely unknown, its sources underutilized or not studied at all. This period of extreme violence, a watershed in the political and social history of the Ottoman Empire, raises many questions about the similarities and differences with the genocidal process of 1915-1916. We invite submissions on a broad range of topics and disciplinary approaches for this special issue. Relevant studies may include chronological analyses of the events of the 1890s themselves, as well as analyses of the consequences of that era of violence up to the present day. At the heart of this issue lies the question of the precedent: what links can be established between the genocide and the mass crimes that preceded it – an issue relevant to the study of other twentieth-century genocides.

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