Watertown TAB & Press, MA
Nov 25 2006

Explore early Armenian history
Friday, November 24, 2006

Film and lecture series runs through Dec. 3

The Boston Chapter of the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and
Cultural Society, the Armenian Library and Museum of America, the
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research and the
Harvard Armenian Society are presenting a lecture and film series on
early Armenian history by Professor Artak Movsisyan.

Movsisyan is an associate professor of history at Yerevan State
University and a scholar at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the
National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Armenia.

The schedule of the lecture and film series is as follows:

"The Pre-Christian Written Culture of Armenia," lecture, Wednesday,
Nov. 29, 7:45 p.m., at Harvard University, Sever Hall, Room 113,
Cambridge. (Harvard Yard to the right of Memorial Church).

"The Origins of the Armenian Nation: From Earliest References to
Now," lecture, Thursday, Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m., at NAASR, 395 Concord
Ave., Belmont.

"Tigran the Great – A Patriotic Sovereign," film screening, Saturday,
Dec. 2, 1:30 p.m., at ACEC, 47 Nichols Ave., Watertown.

"Pre-Christian Armenian Belief System and Transition to
Christianity," lecture, Sunday, Dec. 3, 3 p.m., at ALMA, 65 Main St.,
Watertown.

Admission to all events is free and lectures will be delivered in
English.

To find out more, contact Hamazkayin-Boston at
info@hamazkayin-boston.org or call 617-924-8849; ALMA at
info@almainc.org, 617-926-2562; or NAASR at hq@naasr.org,
617-489-1610.