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    'REMEMBERING ADANA' IS ARMENIAN STUDIES SPEAKER'S TOPIC

    US Fed News
    October 7, 2009 Wednesday 11:48 AM EST

    FRESNO, Calif., Oct. 6 -- California State University Fresno issued
    the following press release:

    Ara Sarafian, director of the Gomidas Institute in London will speak
    on "Remembering Adana" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12, at California
    State University, Fresno. The lecture, free and open to the public,
    will be in the Alice Peters Auditorium, Room 191 of the University
    Business Center.

    The lecture is co-sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program and
    Armenian Students Organization of Fresno State.

    This year marks the 100th anniversary of the 1909 Adana massacre of
    over 20,000 Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

    Sarafian is an archival historian specializing in late Ottoman
    history. The Gomidas Institute is a leading research and publication
    center related to modern Armenian history.

    Free parking will be available in the University Business Center
    parking lot after 7 p.m.

    For more information on the lecture, call the Armenian Studies Program
    at 559/278-2669.
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