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Thursday, April 7, 2005

The Genocide and the Armenian Response in the 21st Century

On the occasion of the 90’th anniversary of The Armenian Genocide,
the community is invited to a public lecture by Armen Ayvazyan,
PhD in political science and history, titled ” The Genocide and the
Armenian Response in the 21st Century ” on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 at
7:30 pm, at Glendale Royal Palace, located at 201 S. Brand Blvd., in
City of Glendale, California. The speaker will address the impact of
the Genocide on today’s reality, the Turkish denial of the Genocide,
its implications for Armenia’s security and the most effective way of
modern Armenian response. There is a general admission fee of $ 15.00.

Dr. Armen Aivazian is a Senior Researcher in the Matenadaran, the
Yerevan Institute of Medieval Manuscripts and an Assistant Professor
of Political Science at the American University of Armenia. He is also
the Team Leader of the European Commission’s sponsored Campaign Against
“Corruption-Freindly” Legal and Social Settings in Armenia program.
He holds doctoral degrees in History (1992) and Political Science
(2004). From 1992 to 1994 he worked as Assistant to the President
of Armenia, Adviser to the Foreign Minister of Armenia, and Acting
Head of the Armenian Delegation to the Conference (now Organization)
on Security and Cooperation in Europe at Vienna. He was a recipient
of an International Security Studies grant provided by the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, working in affiliation with the Program
on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts, Maxwell School of
Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University (1995). During the
1997-1998 academic year, he was a Visiting Senior Fulbright Scholar,
affiliated with the Center for Russian and East European Studies,
Stanford University, USA. He was a Visiting Alexander S. Onassis
Foundation Fellow at ELIAMEP, Hellenic Foundation for European and
Foreign Policy (2000-2001). Dr. Aivazian was also a Fellow at the
American University of Armenia’s Center for Policy Analysis and a
Guest Lecturer at the Yerevan State University. Dr. Aivazian is the
author of several books, book chapters, and many articles in Armenian
and international journals.

While visiting the United States, Dr. Armen Aivazyan has been scheduled
to appear on numerous media programs and series of lectures to be
announced in the near future. For further information, please contact
the organizing commitee: Friends of Armen Aivazyan at (818) 653-5516