UC Berkeley Armenian Studies Invites You‏

Dear Friends,

The UC Berkeley Armenian Studies Program has several important events coming up, the first of which is a symposium this Sunday, April 6th dedicated to the memory of slain Armenian newspaper editor, Hrant Dink, and including important Turkish, Armenian and British scholars who will shed light on the prospects of democracy in Turkey, its policy towards the Armenian Genocide, and dialogue between Turks and Armenians.

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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM - IN MEMORY OF HRANT DINK

"Democratization, Genocide Denial, and the Armenian-Turkish Dialogue: In Memoriam Hrant Dink"

Sunday, April 6, 9:30am-5pm

370/371 Dwinelle Hall, U.C. Berkeley

For detailed program information:

http://ucbaa.com/files/Dink%20Symposium.pdf

Monday, April 7, 8:00 pm

Book Presentation: "Le genocide des Armeniens" - A new, comprehensive study of the Armenian Genocide by Dr. Raymond Kevorkian

(French Institute of Geopolitics and Nubar Library, Paris)

(in French with English translation)

Co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Armenian Studies Program and the Bay Area Armenian National Committee

Vasbouragan Hall, 51 Commonwealth Avenue, San Francisco, 94118

ARMEN LILOYAN, Consul General of Armenia in Los Angeles

"Armenia, Old Nation, Young State: Challenges and Opportunities."

Friday, April 11, 12pm

270 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley

Co-sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program, and the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at UC Berkeley.

DR. SPEROS VRYONIS JR., Emeritus Professor of History, UCLA

"The Mechanism of Catastrophe: The Turkish Pogrom of September 6-7, 1955 and the Destruction of the Greek Community of Istanbul"

Wednesday, April 16, 12pm

270 Stephens, U.C. Berkeley

Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Armenian Studies Program, and the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at UC Berkeley.

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Armenian National Committee

San Francisco - Bay Area

51 Commonwealth Avenue

San Francisco, CA 94118

Tel: (415) 387-3433

Fax: (415) 751-0617

mail@ancsf.org

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