Armenian Youth Federation of Australia
PO Box 238, Willoughby, NSW Australia 2068
[email protected]
PRESS RELEASE
26 May 2005
Genocide Historian Hilmar Kaiser’s Public Youth Lecture
SYDNEY: Internationally renowned genocide historian; Dr Hilmar Kaiser
is visiting Sydney and Melbourne by the invitation of the Armenian
National Committee of Australia in early June 2005.
The Armenian Youth Federation of Australia is pleased to announce that
Dr Kaiser will be running a lecture specifically, although not
exclusively, directed towards a youth audience.
The lecture, titled “The Armenian Genocide and the Community: Denial,
Recognition and the Need for Humanitarian Action”, will take place at
the Armenian Cultural Centre (address below in ‘DETAILS’) on Monday
June 6 at 7pm.
The AYF kindly requests the participation of the entire
Australian-Armenian youth community to share the privilege of Dr
Kaiser’s presence in our shores.
Dr Kaiser is a historian specialising Ottoman and German history with
special emphasis on the Armenian Genocide and the Armenian Question,
as well as late Ottoman social and economic history.
He is the author of various studies on the Armenian Question and the
Armenian Genocide and has conducted extensive research on these issues
in more than 60 archives and universities in the Middle East, Europe
and the United States.
DETAILS:
Event: Dr Hilmar Kaiser * Public Youth Lecture
Topic: “The Armenian Genocide and the Community: Denial,
Recognition and the Need for Humanitarian Action”
Date: Monday, June 6 2005
Time: 7pm
Venue: Armenian Cultural Centre
259 Penshurst Street, Willoughby NSW (Corner of Crabbes Avenue)
Contact: Kevork Tufenkjian * 0409-572-958