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Simon Maghakyan

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Simon Maghakyan

@simonforco

Political scientist researching heritage and security at @UniofOxford. Author of Sovereign Heritage Crime: Security, Autocracy & the Material Past @CambridgeUP.

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Joined July 2015

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Simon Maghakyan
@simonforco
Feb 24
🆕 My first book (a @Cambridge_Uni Element) is now out open-access! Sovereign Heritage Crime: Security, Autocracy, & the Material Past offers a brief intro to a new theoretical framework on state-sponsored cultural erasure: cambridge.org/core/elements/…
Simon Maghakyan
@simonforco
Jul 10
Had the honor of hosting @JohnLechner1 in my Colorado College course on Russia in the Spring to discuss his excellent book, Death Is Our Business, which my students enjoyed reading.
Simon Maghakyan
@simonforco
Jul 9
Armenia’s top state university is firing yet another dissident lecturer
Simon Maghakyan
@simonforco
Jul 1
In October, at Oxford, and then in December, at UCLA, I unveiled a new theoretical explanation for cultural destruction. Until yesterday the video of the event was embargoed but it is now available online youtube.com/live/hd8bOXp_H…
Simon Maghakyan
@simonforco
Jun 29
The bravest recognition of the Armenian Genocide came from Yazidi religious leaders in 2015.
Simon Maghakyan
@simonforco
Mar 20, 2022
Unbelievable story. Even while enduring genocide at the hands of ISIS, in April 2015 Yazidi holy leaders traveled to Armenia to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by giving a proper burial to 20th c. Yazidi-Armenian hero & genocide survivor Jhangir agha

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