Laure Astourian is Associate Professor of French at Bentley University. A historian of French cinema trained in 20th-century French literature and culture, she is the author of The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2024).
Laure Astourian
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At the Edge of Erasure: An Interview with Anouche Kunth, Historian of Exile
In the basement of a French administration office there was a mass of 12,000 documents related to the refugees of the Armenian genocide, telling a terse story of loss.
