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    PRESS RELEASE
    UCLA AEF Chair in Armenian History
    Contact: Prof. Richard Hovannisian
    Tel: 310-825-3375
    Email: [email protected]

    Attached press release and photo on Professor
    Hovannisian at Florida Atlantic and Clark Universities. Also pasted below

    Press Release-UCLA-March 13, 2008

    Richard Hovannisian as Distinguished Professor at
    Florida Atlantic and Clark Universities

    UCLA-Richard G. Hovannisian, AEF Chair in Modern Armenian History at
    UCLA, has been invited as a distinguished visiting professor at
    Florida Atlantic University and Clark University, two leading
    institutions with programs in Holocaust and Genocide studies, during
    the months of March and April.

    Florida Atlantic University

    At Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, from mid-March
    to mid-April, Hovannisian will be the first Jim and Marta Batmasian
    visiting scholar associated with FAU's Holocaust Center and its
    Ph.D. Program in Comparative Studies. He will teach a graduate seminar
    on `Recent Historiography on the Armenian Genocide,' be the guest
    speaker of the "Friends of the Raddock Chair" in Holocaust Studies on
    March 19, make a presentation to the parish of St. David Armenian
    Church on March 21, and give two public lectures at FAU on the
    Armenian Genocide as a prototype on April 2 and 6. Professor Alan
    Berger, Raddock Family Eminent Scholar in Holocaust Studies, stated:
    `We are elated and most honored that Professor Hovannisian will join
    us at FAU, and know that he will contribute greatly to our
    understanding of the Armenian Genocide in comparative perspective.'

    Clark University

    From Florida, Richard Hovannisian will travel to Worcester,
    Massachusetts, as a distinguished visiting professor at Clark
    University, its Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies
    and Modern Armenian History and its Strassler Family Center for
    Holocaust and Genocide Studies. As the search for the next occupant
    for the Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair is being conducted, Hovannisian will
    help to maintain the program's continuity by meeting with graduate
    students in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, giving guest lectures on
    the subjects of `Premeditation or Incremental Violence in the Armenian
    Genocide?'; `Denial of the Armenian Genocide in Comparative
    Perspective'; `Oral History: How Reliable Is It?'; `The Landscape of
    Historic Western Armenia'; and `Must We Still Remember? The Armenian
    Genocide', and a `Lunch and Learn Seminar.' His visit will commence
    with receptions by Clark President John Bassett and Provost David
    Angel and will include events with Professor Deborah Dwork, Director
    of the Strassler Family Center, the Kaloosdian and Mugar families and
    other donors to the Armenian Program, and the Armenian community of
    Central Massachusetts.

    Recent Activities

    During the Winter Quarter at UCLA, Professor Hovannisian has
    maintained a busy schedule of teaching, community outreach, and
    conferences. In January, he participated in the American Historical
    Association's Annual Conference held in Washington D.C., chairing a
    panel on Armenian repatriation, and in a program in the Armenian
    Church Western Diocese reflected on the legacy of Hrant Dink. In
    February, he lectured on Armenian subjects in Frankfurt and Cologne,
    Germany, gave a keynote talk at the Armenian Graduate Studies
    Conference at UCLA, and participated in a dialogue with Taner Akcam in
    a major human rights convocation at California State University, Long
    Beach, with Professors Houri Berberian and Ali Ingman as moderators.

    On February 29-March 1, as the Holder of the AEF Chair in Armenian
    History, Hovannisian organized the seventeenth consecutive
    international conference on Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces,
    this one devoted to the communities of the Northeastern Mediterranean:
    Dort-Yol, Musa Dagh, and Kessab. On March 6, he participated in a UCLA
    panel on genocide denial sponsored by the undergraduate and graduate
    Armenian Student Associations and the Shant ARF Student Committee. On
    March 7, he spoke under the auspices of the Toronto AGBU on the
    Historic Armenian Provinces, and on March 9 gave a power-point
    presentation in a program organized by the Armenian National Committee
    of New Jersey.

    During this same period, three new publications by
    Professor Hovannisian were released: 1). The Armenian Genocide:
    Ethical and Cultural Legacies (Transaction Books); 2). Armenian
    Cilicia (Simon Payaslian, co-editor; Mazda Publishers);
    3). Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniia Respubliki Armeniia, 1918-1920
    (International Relations of the Republic of Armenia), a Russian
    translation of fifteen selected chapters from his four-volume The
    Republic of Armenia (Armenian Academy of Sciences). He also wrote the
    chapter on the Armenian Genocide in the photographic
    collection by Lane Montgomery, Never Again, Again, Again =85. Genocide.

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