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January 22, 2025

Building Bridges of Understanding: 
Hrant Dink’s Legacy in a Fractured World

Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture
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September, 2025

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Past Events

2023

Ayşe Parla, “Hamlet After Genocide: Haunting, Justice, and Empirical Fabulation”

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2023

Rachel Goshgarian, “Where is Armenia?”

Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture Series Description and link to video

2023

Ayşe Buğra, “Thinking about Poverty and Equality from the Perspective of Human Rights”

Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture Series Description and link to video

2019

“Trauma, Magic, Love: Being In Aleppo with Karagöz Puppets, My Ancestors and the Spirit of Osman Kavala,” Sona Tatoyan, Ayhan Hülagü

Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture Series Description and link to video

2019

“Ahead of Time: Exploring the Relationship Between Ancient and Modern Armenian Studies”

co-sponsored with NAASR) (FoHD?), featuring: Christina Maranci, Tufts University; David Zakarian, Oxford University; Marie-Aude Baronian, University of Michigan; Sylvia Alajaji, Franklin & Marshall College

2019

Ohannes Kıliçdağı, Gaye Özpınar, Ayşe Kadıoğlu (FoHD with St. James Armenian Church, at St. James Armenian Church, Watertown

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2018

Christina Maranci, “How to Read Armenian (Art)”

Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture Series

2017

Professor Taner Akçam, filmmaker Gonca Sönmez-Poole, and activist Dr. Emrah Altındiş
of Bostonbul

St. James Armenian Church, at St. James Armenian Church, Watertown

2017

Minorities and Human Rights in Turkey

Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture Series
Ayse Gul Altinay, Etyen Mahçupyan and Gerard Libaridian with moderator Malika Zeghal spoke at Harvard.
The panel discussion was sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University.

2016

Sir Jeffrey Nice, “Complex Truths in Trials of Conflicts”

Mahindra Humanities/Hrant Dink Memorial Peace and Justice Lecture

2015

Professor Jennifer Leaning (Harvard University)

Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture Series Description and link to video

2015

Hrant Dink Memorial Human Rights and Justice Lectureship at MIT

Joint Brookings Institute and MIT event (funded by FoHD) that included people from the State Department, Turks, Armenians, Azeris and many others. There were nine speakers and some from abroad.

2014

Rashid Khalidi, “Unhealed Wounds of World War 1: Armenia, Kurdistan, and Palestine”

Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, Introduced by Rakel Dink. Hosted by Homi Bhabha, Mahindra Humanities Center On YouTube

2014

“Topic?”

Nanore Barsoumian, Gonca Sönmez, Zadik Özcan at St. James Armenian Church