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Institute of Armenian Studies
University of Southern California
Taper Hall of Humanities, Suite 252
Los Angeles, California 90089-4015
Tel: 213-821-3943
Email: armenian@college.usc.edu

USC Institute of Armenian Studies

Invites you to

The Armenian Book Club

Poetry of the Early 20th Century

Led by
Vatche Mankerian
Program Manager of the Institute

Special Guest
Tamar M. Boyadjian
PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA

Tamar M. Boyadjian received her B.A. in English literature in 2002 from
UCLA and M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from the same
institution in 2006. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of
Comparative Literature at UCLA, and her dissertation focuses on the
representation of the city of Jerusalem in early crusading chronicles and
literature. She is currently a Research Assistant for the Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA and is also responsible for the
cataloging of newly acquired Latin manuscripts for the Special Collections
division of the Young Research library. She has taught a number of writing
composition and literature courses for a variety of departments, and has
published a number of articles in scholarly journals, and creative works
in various publications. Her research interests include studies of the
genre of the lament, questions of east and west in medieval literature,
Mongols and their relations to both east and west, monarchy and royalty in
medieval cultures, and comparative paleography and codicology.

Wednesday, March 10
Noon
Taper Hall 271

Topic: Vahan Tekeyan

R.S.V.P. armenian@college.usc.edu

The Book Club will meet every other Wednesday in the Spring 2010
Semester:
February 10: Siamanto and Daniel Varujan
February 24: Avetik Isahakian and Vahan Terian
March 10: Vahan Tekeyan
March 24: Hovhannes Toumanian
April 7: Zabel Asatur and Zabel Yesayan

The Book Club is open to anyone interested in reading Literature in
Western and Eastern Armenian.
The objective of The Book Club is to provide a forum for those wishing to
read Armenian but do not have the time,
converse and communicate in the Armenian language, and to assess student
interest in taking Armenian language courses at USC.