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    BALAKIAN TO SPEAK ON LEMKIN AND ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AT CJH CONFERENCE

    Noyan Tapan
    Nov 11, 2009

    NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 11, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. Peter Balakian,
    an Armenian American Professor and author of numerous books, will be
    part of a day-long symposium on the life and work of Raphael Lemkin,
    sponsored by the Center for Jewish History and American Jewish
    Historical Society and held at the Center for Jewish History on
    Nov. 15.

    Hayrenik weekly reports that the conference will present scholars
    examining the legacy of Raphael Lemkin as a lawyer, scholar, teacher,
    linguist, writer, and tireless advocate of international efforts to
    prevent genocide. An exhibition of selections of Lemkin's papers and
    accompanying materials from the collections of the American Jewish
    Historical Society will accompany the conference. Scholars from
    around the world and across the United States will participate in the
    conference. They include Peter Balakian, Colgate University; Vartan
    Gregorian, Carnegie Corporation; Steven Leonard Jacobs, University of
    Alabama; William A. Schabas, National University of Ireland, Galway,
    and others.

    Balakian will discuss the impact of the Armenian Genocide on
    Lemkin's thought, and then explore how Lemkin's fuller understanding
    of cultural annihilation can be understood by examining the range
    of the Turkish government's eradication of Armenian intellectuals,
    cultural institutions, and artistic heritage.
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