ARMENIANS: FROM TRAUMA TO RESILIENCE
Salpi Ghazarian, Director of the University of Southern California Institute of Armenian Studies, comes to this episode at a moment of war in the Armenian enclave of Azerberijan where drones supplied by Turkey are attacking the population as a way of forcing Armenians to leave this territory. The moment conjures up the long historic story of trauma in Armenian life. The most stark example was the genocide of 1915, by the Ottoman Turkish Empire that murdered 1.5 million Armenians and how the telling of this event from generation to generation has become part of Armenian identity. Director Ghazarian explains how sustained trauma in Armenian life has promoted resiliency, the need to continue reinventing themselves wherever their diaspora has brought them. To contact her for information and/or questions, email, Armenian@USC.edu
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