April 24, 2025 will mark the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. In the Fall of 2024, The Genocide Education Project (“GenEd”) launched a series of free, 90-minute webinars to enable teachers to incorporate this essential topic into their coursework, as recommended in several states’ social studies curriculum standards. Two sessions are left in the series, and it is not too late to sign up.
February 13, 2025, 4-5:30 PT/6-7:30 CT/7-8:30 ET: Understanding the Impact of Denial on Geopolitics Today
This webinar will explore the formation and development of successive Turkish governments’ denial of the Armenian Genocide (1915-23) and the impact this has had on geo-political relationships. This webinar is co-hosted by the Armenian Genocide Research Program (AGRP) of the Promise Armenian Institute (PAI) at UCLA. The featured speaker is Dr. Taner Akçam, director of the AGRP and widely recognized as one of the first Turkish scholars to write extensively on the Ottoman-Turkish Genocide of the Armenians.
March 26, 2025, 4-5:30 PT/6-7:30 CT/7-8:30 ET:Comparative Genocides and Memorialization
Teaching genocides as connected events—each one unique but having commonalities such as the pre-conditions, motivations, methods, etc—helps students better understand global events and identify warning signs. Using the genocide of the Indigenous Americans, the Holocaust, and the Armenian Genocide, we will explore these aspects to help enhance student understanding of genocide and how societies memorialize such atrocities. Guest speaker: Kristen Heinz, 2024 GenEd Teacher Fellow
