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Sato Moughalian, Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian

Event Type
Conference/Workshop
Sponsor
The Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies | MillerComm | Program in Jewish Culture & Society
Location
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory, Urbana
Date
Apr 25, 2022   4:00 pm  
Speaker
Sato Moughalian
Contact
Brett Ashley Kaplan
E-Mail
bakaplan@illinois.edu
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Sato Moughalian’s highly-lauded book A Feast of Ashes (2019) gathers family archives together with historical and art historical research to tell the story of Moughalian’s grandfather, David Ohannessian. Moughalian set out in this project to follow the “breadcrumbs” she could find through family stories about the ceramic art her grandfather founded in Jerusalem in 1919. In this talk, she will describe the moving contrasts and echoes she experienced between the legacies inherited from the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and the “high-voltage fence” that had blocked off her own family’s legacy of surviving the Armenian genocide.

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