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    PRESS RELEASE
    Institute of Armenian Studies
    University of Southern California
    Taper Hall of Humanities, Suite 252
    Los Angeles, California 90089-4015
    Tel: 213-821-3943
    Email: [email protected]



    USC Institute of Armenian Studies

    Invites you to

    The Armenian Book Club

    Poetry of the Early 20th Century

    Led by
    Vatche Mankerian
    Program Manager of the Institute

    Special Guest
    Tamar M. Boyadjian
    PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, UCLA


    Tamar M. Boyadjian received her B.A. in English literature in 2002 from
    UCLA and M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from the same
    institution in 2006. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of
    Comparative Literature at UCLA, and her dissertation focuses on the
    representation of the city of Jerusalem in early crusading chronicles and
    literature. She is currently a Research Assistant for the Center for
    Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA and is also responsible for the
    cataloging of newly acquired Latin manuscripts for the Special Collections
    division of the Young Research library. She has taught a number of writing
    composition and literature courses for a variety of departments, and has
    published a number of articles in scholarly journals, and creative works
    in various publications. Her research interests include studies of the
    genre of the lament, questions of east and west in medieval literature,
    Mongols and their relations to both east and west, monarchy and royalty in
    medieval cultures, and comparative paleography and codicology.


    Wednesday, March 10
    Noon
    Taper Hall 271

    Topic: Vahan Tekeyan

    R.S.V.P. [email protected]

    The Book Club will meet every other Wednesday in the Spring 2010
    Semester:
    February 10: Siamanto and Daniel Varujan
    February 24: Avetik Isahakian and Vahan Terian
    March 10: Vahan Tekeyan
    March 24: Hovhannes Toumanian
    April 7: Zabel Asatur and Zabel Yesayan

    The Book Club is open to anyone interested in reading Literature in
    Western and Eastern Armenian.
    The objective of The Book Club is to provide a forum for those wishing to
    read Armenian but do not have the time,
    converse and communicate in the Armenian language, and to assess student
    interest in taking Armenian language courses at USC.
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