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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
Ayşe Parla, “Hamlet After Genocide: Haunting, Justice, and Empirical Fabulation”
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Rachel Goshgarian, “Where is Armenia?”
Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture Series Description and link to video
Ayşe Buğra, “Thinking about Poverty and Equality from the Perspective of Human Rights”
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“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
“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
Ohannes Kıliçdağı, Gaye Özpınar, Ayşe Kadıoğlu (FoHD with St. James Armenian Church, at St. James Armenian Church, Watertown
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Christina Maranci, “How to Read Armenian (Art)”
Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture Series
Professor Taner Akçam, filmmaker Gonca Sönmez-Poole, and activist Dr. Emrah Altındiş
of Bostonbul
St. James Armenian Church, at St. James Armenian Church, Watertown
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.
Sir Jeffrey Nice, “Complex Truths in Trials of Conflicts”
Mahindra Humanities/Hrant Dink Memorial Peace and Justice Lecture
Professor Jennifer Leaning (Harvard University)
Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture Series Description and link to video
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.
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
“Topic?”
Nanore Barsoumian, Gonca Sönmez, Zadik Özcan at St. James Armenian Church