Heghnar Watenpaugh
@heghnarw.bsky.social
Writer, Art Historian, Professor at University of California Davis
@ucdavis. Guggenheim Fellow
@GuggFellows Art, human rights, cultural heritage, museums, genocide, Middle East, South Caucasus
@ucdavis. Guggenheim Fellow
@GuggFellows Art, human rights, cultural heritage, museums, genocide, Middle East, South Caucasus
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Heghnar Watenpaugh
@heghnarw.bsky.social
· Dec 19
The Missing Pages | Stanford University Press
In 2010, the world's wealthiest art institution, the J. Paul Getty Museum, found itself confronted by a century-old genocide. The Armenian Church was suing for the return of eight pages from the Zeytu...
www.sup.org
The paperback edition of my book #TheMissingPages is out! The award-winning biography of a #Medieval #Armenian #manuscript that is at once art, sacred object, and #culturalheritage, the legal battle for its #restitution, and the #humanright to art.
www.sup.org/books/art-an...
www.sup.org/books/art-an...
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This special issue of the European Journal of Turkish Studies features a section called “Le Meurtre et la Langue,” co-authored by Emmanuel Szurek and me, which explores how early republican popular educators discussed the genocide in 1930s Turkey.
journals.openedition.org/ejts/8382
journals.openedition.org/ejts/8382
September 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This special issue of the European Journal of Turkish Studies features a section called “Le Meurtre et la Langue,” co-authored by Emmanuel Szurek and me, which explores how early republican popular educators discussed the genocide in 1930s Turkey.
journals.openedition.org/ejts/8382
journals.openedition.org/ejts/8382
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Join us Thurs SEPT 18 for
"Countering #GenderApartheid with International Law: A Strategic Convening"
@UMichLaw
Public hybrid panels 9AM-1PM ET; 1225 Jeffries Hall
Register for Zoom: tinyurl.com/4xxywu7h
Speakers incl: UN Special Rapporteur on #Afghanistan; Mariam Safi & Malala Yousafzai(video)
"Countering #GenderApartheid with International Law: A Strategic Convening"
@UMichLaw
Public hybrid panels 9AM-1PM ET; 1225 Jeffries Hall
Register for Zoom: tinyurl.com/4xxywu7h
Speakers incl: UN Special Rapporteur on #Afghanistan; Mariam Safi & Malala Yousafzai(video)
August 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Join us Thurs SEPT 18 for
"Countering #GenderApartheid with International Law: A Strategic Convening"
@UMichLaw
Public hybrid panels 9AM-1PM ET; 1225 Jeffries Hall
Register for Zoom: tinyurl.com/4xxywu7h
Speakers incl: UN Special Rapporteur on #Afghanistan; Mariam Safi & Malala Yousafzai(video)
"Countering #GenderApartheid with International Law: A Strategic Convening"
@UMichLaw
Public hybrid panels 9AM-1PM ET; 1225 Jeffries Hall
Register for Zoom: tinyurl.com/4xxywu7h
Speakers incl: UN Special Rapporteur on #Afghanistan; Mariam Safi & Malala Yousafzai(video)
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Relooted, one of the most anticipated video games of 2025, allows players to take stolen African artifacts from Western museums and return them to their home countries.
AJ+ talked to one of the creators...
www.instagram.com/reel/DMETOk6...
AJ+ talked to one of the creators...
www.instagram.com/reel/DMETOk6...
July 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Relooted, one of the most anticipated video games of 2025, allows players to take stolen African artifacts from Western museums and return them to their home countries.
AJ+ talked to one of the creators...
www.instagram.com/reel/DMETOk6...
AJ+ talked to one of the creators...
www.instagram.com/reel/DMETOk6...
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Members of New York’s Armenian community called on Mayor Eric Adams to break his silence on the Armenian genocide and give it official recognition as mayor on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
Armenians in NYC mark genocide and Mayor Adams' ongoing silence
Federal prosecutors said the mayor agreed to a Turkish government official’s request not to make any statements about the Armenian genocide in 2022
gothamist.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Members of New York’s Armenian community called on Mayor Eric Adams to break his silence on the Armenian genocide and give it official recognition as mayor on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
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Please demand that our elected officials not play with the facts of history and clearly state the Armenian Genocide happened, just like Mayors de Blasio, Bloomberg, Giuliani, and Koch did before him. Honor the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
April 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Please demand that our elected officials not play with the facts of history and clearly state the Armenian Genocide happened, just like Mayors de Blasio, Bloomberg, Giuliani, and Koch did before him. Honor the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
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Please SIGN and SHARE this petition that asks NYC Mayor Adams to unequivocally recognize the Armenian Genocide after last year's federal indictment that stated that days before the 2022 Remembrance a Turkish official sought assurances that Adams would refrain from making any statements about it.
Sign the Petition
New York City Mayor Eric Adams Must Unequivocally Recognize the Armenian Genocide
chng.it
April 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Please SIGN and SHARE this petition that asks NYC Mayor Adams to unequivocally recognize the Armenian Genocide after last year's federal indictment that stated that days before the 2022 Remembrance a Turkish official sought assurances that Adams would refrain from making any statements about it.
Wonderful review of a brilliant , poignant, and funny play by Sona Tatoyan at Potrero Stage in San Francisco. Do not miss it! #shadowpuppettheatre #hakawati #Aleppo #ArmenianGenocide
Golden Thread Productions and Hakawati NGO's "Azad (The Rabbit and the Wolf)" has such a complex structure I'm still trying to understand how it all worked, along with direction that seemed to marshal the storytelling capabilities of every corner of the stage. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
‘Azad’ review: The Armenian genocide and puppets make for shattering theater
The wondrous “Azad (The Rabbit and the Wolf)” somehow combines uproarious shadow puppetry with devastating drama about family history.
www.sfchronicle.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Wonderful review of a brilliant , poignant, and funny play by Sona Tatoyan at Potrero Stage in San Francisco. Do not miss it! #shadowpuppettheatre #hakawati #Aleppo #ArmenianGenocide
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Golden Thread Productions and Hakawati NGO's "Azad (The Rabbit and the Wolf)" has such a complex structure I'm still trying to understand how it all worked, along with direction that seemed to marshal the storytelling capabilities of every corner of the stage. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
‘Azad’ review: The Armenian genocide and puppets make for shattering theater
The wondrous “Azad (The Rabbit and the Wolf)” somehow combines uproarious shadow puppetry with devastating drama about family history.
www.sfchronicle.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Golden Thread Productions and Hakawati NGO's "Azad (The Rabbit and the Wolf)" has such a complex structure I'm still trying to understand how it all worked, along with direction that seemed to marshal the storytelling capabilities of every corner of the stage. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...
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Calling all record-keepers: Call for Papers for Archives and Records special issue: Trauma-Informed Approaches to Archives & Records
Find our more and how to submit here. www.archives.org.uk/...
Find our more and how to submit here. www.archives.org.uk/...
Call for Papers for Archives and Records special issue: Trauma-Informed Approaches to Archives & Records — Archives & Records Association
Archives and Records is the journal of the Archives and Records Association. A special issue on Trauma-Informed Approaches to Archives and Records has a call for proposals: Trauma-Informed Approaches for Archives and Records Special Issue Call for Papers Call for Proposals Archives and Records
www.archives.org.uk
April 8, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Calling all record-keepers: Call for Papers for Archives and Records special issue: Trauma-Informed Approaches to Archives & Records
Find our more and how to submit here. www.archives.org.uk/...
Find our more and how to submit here. www.archives.org.uk/...
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is this a safe space to admit that I thought dire wolves were invented by George R R Martin
April 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
is this a safe space to admit that I thought dire wolves were invented by George R R Martin
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Remembering my father Mahfoud Bennoune on what would've been his 89th birthday
In these harrowing times, I'm inspired by the fact that he never gave up working for freedom & dignity & knowledge & reason & humanity in his beloved #Algeria & in the world
We shouldn't either
mahfoudbennoune.com
In these harrowing times, I'm inspired by the fact that he never gave up working for freedom & dignity & knowledge & reason & humanity in his beloved #Algeria & in the world
We shouldn't either
mahfoudbennoune.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Remembering my father Mahfoud Bennoune on what would've been his 89th birthday
In these harrowing times, I'm inspired by the fact that he never gave up working for freedom & dignity & knowledge & reason & humanity in his beloved #Algeria & in the world
We shouldn't either
mahfoudbennoune.com
In these harrowing times, I'm inspired by the fact that he never gave up working for freedom & dignity & knowledge & reason & humanity in his beloved #Algeria & in the world
We shouldn't either
mahfoudbennoune.com
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🎨 Check out our new guest lectures for the summer term on Museums, Exhibitions & Conservation, organized by @noemieetienne.bsky.social. Speakers include @silas-blue.bsky.social, @heghnarw.bsky.social & @cageinbeakifly.bsky.social and many others.
📅 Wednesdays 9:15–10:45am CET.
✍️ DM for Zoom link!
📅 Wednesdays 9:15–10:45am CET.
✍️ DM for Zoom link!
March 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🎨 Check out our new guest lectures for the summer term on Museums, Exhibitions & Conservation, organized by @noemieetienne.bsky.social. Speakers include @silas-blue.bsky.social, @heghnarw.bsky.social & @cageinbeakifly.bsky.social and many others.
📅 Wednesdays 9:15–10:45am CET.
✍️ DM for Zoom link!
📅 Wednesdays 9:15–10:45am CET.
✍️ DM for Zoom link!
Thank you @hrag.bsky.social for a fantastic presentation and discussion on Friday. An audience of 163 people who did not want to leave. #arthistory #culturalheritage #manettishremmuseum
A great turn out at the Templeton Colloquium and wonderful responses to my lecture of the role of critics in empire and our complicity #ManettiShremMuseum #UCDavis
February 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Thank you @hrag.bsky.social for a fantastic presentation and discussion on Friday. An audience of 163 people who did not want to leave. #arthistory #culturalheritage #manettishremmuseum
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Chances are, you've already read Heghnar Watenpaugh 's book.
But, if you haven't, I highly recommend it.
You'll definitely appreciate it.
But, if you haven't, I highly recommend it.
You'll definitely appreciate it.
August 25, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Chances are, you've already read Heghnar Watenpaugh 's book.
But, if you haven't, I highly recommend it.
You'll definitely appreciate it.
But, if you haven't, I highly recommend it.
You'll definitely appreciate it.
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Survivor Objects and Captive Sites: Art and Cultural Heritage in Genocide with Heghnar Watenpaugh
Getty Research Institute
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December 16, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Survivor Objects and Captive Sites: Art and Cultural Heritage in Genocide with Heghnar Watenpaugh
Getty Research Institute
www.youtube.com/live/8x1W_AT...
Getty Research Institute
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I wrote about the current Guerrilla Girls exhibition at Hannah Traore gallery and how they changed the art world. #NYC
Not All Superheroes Wear Capes, Some Don Gorilla Masks
This one-room exhibition is a good reminder of how this anonymous group of artists changed how we saw the art world.
hyperallergic.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I wrote about the current Guerrilla Girls exhibition at Hannah Traore gallery and how they changed the art world. #NYC
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The fact that some people are debating whether Greenland should be taken over by the US or continued to be "occupied" by Denmark as if the native Greenlandic Inuit population have nothing to say about it, indicates to what extent some of these folks have not opened a single history book.
January 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The fact that some people are debating whether Greenland should be taken over by the US or continued to be "occupied" by Denmark as if the native Greenlandic Inuit population have nothing to say about it, indicates to what extent some of these folks have not opened a single history book.
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In order to succeed, every writer needs two helpers: one to hold the parasol and another to hold the flywhisk
Ethiopia, 17th c. (?) #luke #evangelist #gospel #scribe #africanwriter #africanart
Ethiopia, 17th c. (?) #luke #evangelist #gospel #scribe #africanwriter #africanart
January 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
In order to succeed, every writer needs two helpers: one to hold the parasol and another to hold the flywhisk
Ethiopia, 17th c. (?) #luke #evangelist #gospel #scribe #africanwriter #africanart
Ethiopia, 17th c. (?) #luke #evangelist #gospel #scribe #africanwriter #africanart
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What’s Next: Armenian Genocide Restitution in the Post-Recognition Era.
“The documentary follows the proceedings of a conference that took place at UCLA on March 25, 2023 and explored Armenian genocide cultural restitution in depth.”
www.international.ucla.edu/armenia/arti...
“The documentary follows the proceedings of a conference that took place at UCLA on March 25, 2023 and explored Armenian genocide cultural restitution in depth.”
www.international.ucla.edu/armenia/arti...
Release of Documentary on Armenian Genocide Looted Art and Restitution
The film explores questions about the possibilities of creating an Armenian genocide reparation movement post-recognition, the opportunities within the American legal system for reparation, and using ...
www.international.ucla.edu
December 14, 2024 at 9:38 PM
What’s Next: Armenian Genocide Restitution in the Post-Recognition Era.
“The documentary follows the proceedings of a conference that took place at UCLA on March 25, 2023 and explored Armenian genocide cultural restitution in depth.”
www.international.ucla.edu/armenia/arti...
“The documentary follows the proceedings of a conference that took place at UCLA on March 25, 2023 and explored Armenian genocide cultural restitution in depth.”
www.international.ucla.edu/armenia/arti...
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The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco acquired four sculptures looted from Thailand in the 1960s. Instead of making a quiet repatriation, they're using the process to invite discussion of what a museum is for and how it can be used by communities: exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/...
December 18, 2024 at 3:51 PM
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco acquired four sculptures looted from Thailand in the 1960s. Instead of making a quiet repatriation, they're using the process to invite discussion of what a museum is for and how it can be used by communities: exhibitions.asianart.org/exhibitions/...
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just out on my little medieval mental health walk
December 19, 2024 at 9:27 PM
just out on my little medieval mental health walk
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This is such happy news: Hrag Vartanian has been awarded the Susan C. Larsen Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rabkin Foundation as a pathfinding writer who has "shaped how we think about art and its social and political contexts.” hyperallergic.com/971979/hyper...
Hyperallergic Editor-in-Chief Hrag Vartanian Wins Rabkin Lifetime Achievement Award
The Rabkin Foundation recognized Vartanian and feminist curator and critic Lucy Lippard for shaping “how we think about art and its social and political contexts.”
hyperallergic.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:07 PM
This is such happy news: Hrag Vartanian has been awarded the Susan C. Larsen Lifetime Achievement Award from the Rabkin Foundation as a pathfinding writer who has "shaped how we think about art and its social and political contexts.” hyperallergic.com/971979/hyper...
The paperback edition of my book #TheMissingPages is out! The award-winning biography of a #Medieval #Armenian #manuscript that is at once art, sacred object, and #culturalheritage, the legal battle for its #restitution, and the #humanright to art.
www.sup.org/books/art-an...
www.sup.org/books/art-an...
The Missing Pages | Stanford University Press
In 2010, the world's wealthiest art institution, the J. Paul Getty Museum, found itself confronted by a century-old genocide. The Armenian Church was suing for the return of eight pages from the Zeytu...
www.sup.org
December 19, 2024 at 11:31 PM
The paperback edition of my book #TheMissingPages is out! The award-winning biography of a #Medieval #Armenian #manuscript that is at once art, sacred object, and #culturalheritage, the legal battle for its #restitution, and the #humanright to art.
www.sup.org/books/art-an...
www.sup.org/books/art-an...