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May 15, 2008
Hovannisian visits Clark University, lectures on Armenian Genocide
WORCESTER, MA-This spring, Clark University’s Strassler Family Center
for Holocaust and Genocide Studies welcomed Richard Hovannisian,
Professor Emeritus of Armenian and Near Eastern History, University of
California, Los Angeles. Professor Hovannisian served as the Robert
Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar
Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Clark the week of April 14. He
delivered lectures in classes, and met with doctoral students and
faculty.
On April 22, he presented a free, public lecture, "Must We Still
Remember?
The Armenian Genocide as Prototype," to a large audience. A video of
the lecture is now available online at
ve/playvideo.cfm?id=3D126.
The Armenian Genocide of 1915 was the most calamitous event in the
long and turbulent history of the Armenian people. In many ways it
also became the prototype of modern cases of forced population
transfer and mass murder. Professor Hovannisian will analyze the
murderous violence against the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in
relation to subsequent genocides in the 20th and now in the 21st
centuries.
A member of the UCLA faculty since 1962, Professor Hovannisian has
organized the undergraduate and graduate programs in Armenian and
Caucasian history and served as the associate director of the G.E. von
Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies from 1978 to 1995. He was
the first to hold the post of Armenian Education Foundation Endowed
Chair in Armenian History at UCLA.
Professor Hovannisian received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees
from the University of California, Berkley. He received his
Ph.D. from UCLA. He is the author of "Armenia on the Road to
Independence"; "The Republic of Armenia," Volumes I-IV; and "The
Armenian Holocaust"; and has edited and contributed to many scholarly
journals dedicated to Armenian history, politics and genocide. He
serves on the board of directors of nine scholarly and civic
organizations and has made numerous television and radio appearances.
The mission of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide
Studies is to educate undergraduate and graduate students about
genocide and the Holocaust; to host a lecture series, free of charge
and open to the public; to use scholarship to address current problems
stemming from the murderous past; and to participate in the public
discussion about a host of issues ranging from the significance of
state-sponsored denial of the Armenian genocide and well-funded denial
of the Holocaust to intervention in and prevention of genocidal
situations today.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research
university with 2,200 undergraduate and 800 graduate students. Since
it’s founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United
States, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such
as the International Studies Stream, the University Park Partnership,
and the accelerated BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition-free
for eligible students. The University is featured in Loren Pope’s
book, "Colleges That Change Lives.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
