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Armenian Poetry Workshop

Translating KRIKOR MOMDJIAN’S Armenian poetry into English

Monday-Friday + Monday & Tuesday

28 April–6 May 2014; 7:30–10:00 PM

Pembroke College Oxford

Samuel Johnson Building, Seminar Room

During 2014 and 2015 Krikor Momdjian is Oxford Armenian Studies Artist in Residence.

From Monday 28 April until Tuesday 6 May he will lead a two to two-and-a-half hour evening workshop where we will translate a selection of his Armenian poetry into English. Join us for any or all evenings in the Seminar Room in the Samuel Johnson Building at Pembroke.

Krikor Momdjian was born in Lebanon and has been living in the Netherlands since 1979. While in Oxford this term, Krikor will give two public lectures, the details of which will be announced shortly. The first will be entitled Intercultural Relations between Image and Language, the second Uprooted.

For more information on Krikor’s painting and his multi-lingual poetry, see his website: www.krikormomdjian.nl

For more information about this programme contact Theo Maarten van lint, Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies, theo.vanlint@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Oxford Armenian Studies

University of Oxford

The Oriental Institute

Pusey Lane

OX1 2LE Oxford