NEW WORKSHOP OF CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY ON 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Azg/arm
11 March 05

The chair of Modern Armenian History at the California University in
association with the Center for Middle East, European and Eurasian
Studies will organize “Nine Decades Later: Eternal Heritage of the
Armenian Genocide” workshop on April 1-3. The AGBU Manukian Center in
Pasadena will host the first day of the workshop with the participation
of 4 specialists from Yerevan, Damascus, and Wesleyan who will share
with their researches and analysis in Armenian. The workshop will move
to the California University next two days, and around 30 specialists
will lecture in English.

The workshop will host participants from Armenia, Lebanon, France,
USA, Syria and Columbia. Armenian Genocide issue being central in the
workshop will not be the only one (“The Assyrian Genocide in 19-20
centuries”, Anahit Ghosroyan, “The Greek Tragedy in Asia Minor and
Pontos”, Speros Vrionis).

This is the 17th workshop on Genocide organized by the chair
of Modern Armenian History and 4th organized by Prof. Richard
Hovhannisian. Previous 3 workshops by Prof. Hovhannisian were assembled
into 3 volumes.

By Nana Petrosian