Jewish Studies Calendar

iWitness. Armenian Genocide Commemoration

Event Type

Exhibition

Sponsor

Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies, The Program in Jewish Culture & Society, EU Center, HRI, Comparative and World Literature, CSAMES, REEC, Center for Global Studies through support from the US Department of Education's Title VI NRC Program, SLCL, CAS

Location

Illini Union Art Gallery (1401 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801)

Date

Apr 10, 2025   All Day

Cost

Free and open to the public

Contact

Brett Kaplan

E-Mail

bakaplan@illinois.edu

Views

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Through portraiture, testimony, archives and sound, iWitness presents a poignant and deeply moving narrative of the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923) as told by its last surviving eyewitnesses.

Artist talk: Photography & Testimony, Ara Oshagan & Levon Parian, moderated by Brett Ashley Kaplan, April 24, 5 pm (Siebel Center for Design, Starlight Room, 1208 South 4th Street, Champaign, IL 61821).

Opening Reception: April 25, 4 pm (Illini Union Art Gallery, 1401 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801)