FAU presents two lectures on Armenia

Published March 24th, 2008

FROM STAFF REPORTS

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. 

For more information, call 561-297-2979.