FAU PRESENTS TWO LECTURES ON ARMENIA
Boca Raton News
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March 24 2008
USA
Florida Atlantic University will present two lectures about Armenia
by Richard G. Hovannisian, professor of Armenian and Near Eastern
History at the University of California, Los Angeles
The first lecture, entitled "The Armenian Genocide as a Prototype,"
will take place Wednesday, April 2 at 7 p.m. in the Senate Chambers
of the Student Union on FAU’s Boca Raton campus.
The second lecture, entitled "The Changing Landscape of Historic
Western Armenia," will take place Sunday, April 6 at 4 p.m. in the
Grand Palm Room of the Student Union Building.
Both lectures are free and open to the public.
Among his distinctions, Hovannisian was appointed the first holder of
the Armenian Educational Foundation Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian
History at UCLA. He is also a Guggenheim Fellow and has received
many honors for his scholarship, civic activities and advancement of
Armenian Studies.
The lectures are sponsored by Jim and Marta Batmasian, along with
Alan Berger, FAU’s Raddock Family Eminent Scholar Chair in Holocaust
Studies, and the Center for the Study of Values and Violence after
Auschwitz in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters.