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 Communist Armenian Women in France
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DESCRIPTION:Armenian women immigrants\, many of them survivors of the Armen
 ian Genocide\, participated in the French Resistance against the Nazis dur
 ing WWII. In 1942\, they founded the Union des femmes arméniennes in Pari
 s which remained an underground organization until liberation. After the w
 ar’s conclusion and in response to Soviet Armenia’s repatriation campa
 igns\, the Union promoted the communist fatherland as a feminist heaven. T
 hrough its journal Hai Guine (Armenian Women)\, the Union leadership encou
 raged its membership to move to Soviet Armenia. For them\, it was a place 
 where women and men enjoyed equal economic and political rights and a plac
 e where the state assumed many of the burdens that had been the responsibi
 lity of women in the diaspora\, namely\, keeping and transmitting group id
 entity to the next generations. In a way\, then\, the fatherland was a mot
 herland. This paper delves into the hitherto unknown history of Armenian w
 orking-class women’s political subjectivities in postwar Europe. \n\n \n
 \nLerna Ekmekcioglu is McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History and
  the director of Women’s and Gender Studies Program at MIT. Her first mo
 nograph\, Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Tur
 key\, came out from Stanford University Press in 2016. Dr. Ekmekcioglu has
  published articles on various topics\, including Armenian demands at the 
 1923 Lausanne Conference\, an Armenian woman’s memoirs about her years a
 t Constantinople’s Central Prison during WWI\, and French Armenian commu
 nist women’s organizing in post-war Paris for repatriation to Soviet Arm
 enia. Currently\, Dr. Ekmekcioglu is co-authoring a book and digital human
 ities project titled Feminism in Armenian: An Interpretive Anthology and D
 ocumentary Archive (IUP Ottomanica\, 2025).\n\nThis event is part of CREEE
 S’ Armenian Studies Program.\n\nRSVP Here
LOCATION:Encina Commons\, room 123
SUMMARY:Feminist Repatriation to Soviet Armenia in 1947? A History of Commu
 nist Armenian Women in France
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 viet-armenia-in-1947-a-history-of-communist-armenian-women-in-france
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