S1E8 - The Cemetery of Jugha and Azeri Claims to Nakhichevan
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S1E8 - The Cemetery of Jugha and Azeri Claims to Nakhichevan
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Today, we talk about the destruction of monuments. My guest, Sasha Boghosian, is an MA student at the University of British Columbia in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, and her research focuses on the importance of a society's collective memory for the development of their culture and identity. In this conversation, Sasha explains how, throughout the 19th-20th c., the state of Azerbaijan undertook a revisionist history agenda to strengthen their claims to a region in the Caucasus called Nakhichevan. This involves both the rewriting of history books and the obliteration of funerary stelae, which mark the presence of previous Armenian inhabitants in the region. Suffice it to say I am learning for the vast majority of this conversation, and I hope the connections we draw between Roman practices and events in more recent history will illuminate the consistent desires and actions of humans on opposite ends of a two millennia divide.