The Missing Pages
The title sounds very generic, and the word "missing" invokes two things in my mind:
missing - a 1982 American biographical thriller drama film, adapted from the book by Thomas Hauser on Charles Horman executed in Chile in the days following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état led by General Augusto Pinochet
missing link - NOT a 2019 American animated adventure comedy film, but hypothetical extinct creature halfway in the evolutionary line between modern human beings and their anthropoid progenitors, however, I find this term often has a negative connotation.
As the header image suggests, this brief article is based on the book "The Missing Pages" written by Professor Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh:
I read her book in March 2023 as shown in the following post in X(Twitter):
https://x.com/SokoKhazar/status/1641432656947871745
This is the biography of the Zeytun Gospels (Զեյթունի Ավետարան), an Armenian illuminated manuscript in the Armenian language by artist and ordained priest T'oros Roslin (Թորոս Ռոսլին) (1210-1270). It's an incredible story how the gospels survived the Armenian genocide (Հայոց ցեղասպանություն)...
According to Wikipedia
Most of the manuscript, excluding the canon tables which are kept at the J. Paul Getty Museum, are at the Matenadaran (Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts) in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.
Here, Mesrop Mashtots (Մեսրոպ Մաշտոց) (362-440) is known for inventing the Armenian alphabet, which was a fundamental step in strengthening Armenian national identity.
Il est le créateur de l'alphabet arménien, et à l'origine de la littérature et de l'enseignement des lettres arméniennes. Son rôle historique a été déterminant dans la conservation de l'identité nationale arménienne.
Then, I had the opportunity to listen to the following event by Getty Research Institute on Sunday 15th December 2024 (US Pacific Coast Time), the main guest of which was the author of the book mentioned above:
Survivor Objects and Captive Sites: Art and Cultural Heritage in Genocide
https://www.getty.edu/calendar/survivor-objects-captive-sites/
It is the first time for me to listen to a livestream organized by Getty Research Institute, and I just wanted to record my experience.
It is not appropriate to share screen shots of various scenes in the event, but I believe the cover and one scene in the QA session are acceptable.
Her talk did not simply mention what happened 100+ years ago, but also referred to the ongoing "denial" by the country which conducted the genocide as well as the vandalism being conducted by the country of dictatorship with a hereditary president in the west of Caspian Sea.
But the future can be changed (hopefully)🙏
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