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SUMMARY:The Politics of Commemoration: The Armenian Genocide on TV - Eric 
 Friedler\, Director of Aghet (2010) and Head of Historical Documentaries\,
  NDR/ARD
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CONTACT:Dr Bernhard Fulda
DESCRIPTION:The Public and Popular History seminar will kick off its annua
 l programme with a session entitled: The Politics of Commemoration - The A
 rmenian Genocide on TV\, involving a screening of Aghet (Armenian for ‘c
 atastrophe’)\, followed by a discussion with its Director\, Eric Friedle
 r\, this coming Tuesday\, 26 October\, in the Mong Hall\, Sidney Sussex Co
 llege\, starting at 4.30 pm. The award-winning documentary Aghet has succe
 eded in doing what no historical monograph on the Armenian genocide has so
  far managed to do: to move the first genocide of the twentieth century in
 to the limelight of public debate – even in Turkey. First screened in Ge
 rmany earlier this year\, it attracted high-profile critical acclaim (incl
 uding winning this year’s National Television Award)\, and is since havi
 ng an impact internationally\, too. The English version of the documentary
  was screened on Capitol Hill\, Washington to members of the US House of R
 epresentatives and the Senate this summer. There are now calls to have it 
 broadcast on PBS. Nobel Prize Laureate Günter Grass demanded a public apo
 logy from the Turkish government in a recent lecture held in Turkey\, refe
 rring to the documentary and its presentation of ‘irrefutable documents
 ’. This received coverage even in the Turkish mass media\, otherwise not
 oriously reluctant to engage with the topic.\n \nEric Friedler\, director 
 and producer of numerous award-winning historical documentaries\, is curre
 ntly Head of Special Projects at NDR\, a German public broadcaster with a 
 long tradition of producing pioneering documentaries. He will discuss his 
 approach to the topic\, the history of the film’s production\, its parti
 cular aesthetic and narrative structure\, and his views of the reception t
 he documentary has enjoyed. 
LOCATION: Mong Hall/Sidney Sussex College
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