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    PRESS RELEASE
    Clark University
    Angela M. Bazydlo
    Associate Director of Media Relations
    University Communications
    ph: 508-793-7635
    cell: 508-365-8736
    www.clarku.edu



    April 3, 2008

    Preeminent expert on the Armenian Genocide to lecture at Clark University

    WORCESTER, MA-Clark University's Strassler Family Center for Holocaust
    and Genocide Studies will present "Must We Still Remember? The
    Armenian Genocide as Prototype," a lecture by Richard Hovannisian,
    Professor Emeritus of Armenian and Near Eastern History, University of
    California, Los Angeles, at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 22, in Tilton
    Hall, 2nd floor of the Higgins University Center, 950 Main Street,
    Worcester.

    This free, public lecture will be followed by a reception.

    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.
    Professor Hovannisian will serve as the Robert Aram and Marianne
    Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Distinguished Visiting Scholar
    at Clark the week of April 14. He will deliver lectures in classes,
    as well as meet with doctoral students and faculty.
    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."
    -www.clarku.edu-
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