Public lecture

Nazi Looted Art Recovery as a Model for Recovery of AGLA: Armenian Genocide Looted Art

The Armenian Studies and Jewish Studies Programs Present

Online event

5 sept. 2025 7:00 PM

Grosse Industrial Technology Building, Room 101
2255 E. Barstow Ave., Fresno State (S/E Corner of Barstow and Campus Drive)

California - United States

Presented by Prof. Michael Bazyler and Dr. Taner Akçam

Prof. Bazyler will discuss the Armenian Genocide Looted Art Research Project (AGLARP) of the UCLA Promise Armenian Institute, which brings together American law students and art students, many of them Armenian-Americans, to search online collections of museums and other public institutions holding Armenian art objects. The goal of this research is to create a comprehensive list of all Armenian art in the United States and their listed provenances. The AGLA Project seeks to identify all objects which probably or possibly were looted during the Armenian Genocide.

The AGLARP was created to deal with the aftermath of the United States' recognition of the Armenian Genocide through two congressional resolutions passed by both houses of the United State Congress in 2019, and by President Biden's April 24 statement in 2021.

Michael Bazyler is professor of law and the 1939 Society Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Chapman University in California.

Taner Akçam is the inaugural director of the Armenian Genocide Research Program of The Promise Armenian Institute (PAI) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Free Parking in Lot P23- PARKING PERMITS ARE NOT REQUIRED.

Also streamed on YouTube on the Armenian Studies channel.

Online event