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    RADIO HOST TO DISCUSS 'MURDER AT THE ALTAR' AT CSUB HISTORY FORUM

    US Fed News
    April 23, 2008 Wednesday 11:34 PM EST

    California State University Bakersfield issued the following press
    release:

    California State University, Bakersfield's history department presents
    Terry Phillips, journalist and host of KVPR's "Quality of Life"
    show, for their spring History Forum titled "Murder at the Altar: A
    Historical Novel" on Friday, May 2 at 3:30 p.m. in the Albertson Room.

    Phillips, a long-time war correspondent for CBS, NBC and NPR, will
    discuss his recently published historical novel, "Murder at the
    Altar." The story centers around the murder of the leader of the
    Armenian church in America, Archbishop Ghevont Tourian, on December
    24, 1933. This act of violence became a touchstone for intra-ethnic
    conflict amongst Armenians in America, but the story is also a poignant
    example of the tensions and contradictions created by the Cold War,
    some of which lingered long after the USSR's collapse, said Mark Baker,
    CSUB history professor.

    "Phillips sees the case as a metaphor for all religious and ethnic
    conflicts in our world and the great difficulties we repeatedly
    encounter in trying to resolve them," Baker continued.

    After an informal talk, the author will welcome questions and comments
    from the audience. Autographed copies of his book will be available
    for sale after the forum.

    Since its inception in 1999, the History Forum has presented one
    speaker per academic quarter. Past topics have included the history
    of the California wine industry by historian Victor Geraci; an oral
    history and the Chicano experience in World War II given by Mario
    Garcia, from the University of California, Santa Barbara; and the
    history of the Basque settlement in Bakersfield presented by Jeri
    Echeverria, Fresno State University provost and historian.

    The forum is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served
    and parking will be free in lots B and C. For more information please
    call Baker in the history department at (661) 654-6833 or log onto
    www.csub.edu/history/.

    Contact: Kathy Miller, 661/654-2456, [email protected]; Jaclyn
    Hernandez, 661/654-2138, [email protected]

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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