| When: | Back to Calendar March 31, 2015 @ 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM | Where: | Skirball Cultural Center 2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard Los Angeles,CA 90049 USA |
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| Cost: | Free | |
| Categories: | Community Events |
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Tuesday, March 31, 8:00 p.m.
In her profound new memoir, named as a finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award, Armenian American authorMeline Toumani examines the legacy of the Armenian genocide of 1915 and the complex role it plays in her own identity.
Toumani spent four years conducting interviews with Turkish scholars, visiting the remains of Armenian villages, and building a complicated life in Istanbul—all part of what she calls “a love thine enemy experiment.” In this year of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, There Was and There Was Not asks hard questions about what it means for a diaspora, created from and later galvanized by a tragedy, to move forward and flourish, and reflects on how we use—and sometimes abuse—our personal histories to make sense of our lives.
A Q&A and book signing follow the program.
“A storyteller who recognizes that history is a matter of both fact and feeling.”—Washington Post