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DETROIT TEKEYAN CHAPTER, ADL KICK OFF ARMENIAN CULTURAL MONTH
AZG DAILY
09-11-2010
The local Armenian Democratic League (ADL) and Tekeyan Cultural
Association always manage to present an interesting array of people
and topics to educate and entertain the local community in honor of
Armenian Cultural Month. Their October 1 presentation of "Aghet:
A Genocide," was the perfect beginning. The film was shown at the
Alex and Marie Manoogian Day School in Southfield, Armenian Mirror
Spectator reported October 25.
"Aghet" is the production of German National Television filmmaker Eric
Friedler and producer Katharina Trebitsch. A screening was hosted in
July of this year in Washington, DC by California's Rep. Adam Schiff
to a standing-room-only audience of legislators and activists.
On October 9, the ADL and the Tekeyan Cultural Association (TCA)
presented an evening of "current events" with Prof. Girard Libaridian.
His talk was titled "Russia, Turkey: Another Round - Recent
Developments, Historical Antecedents and future prospects."
Edmond Azadian began the evening by paying tribute to Libaridian's
mother who had recently passed away after a long and productive life
at age 88. He stated, "She was a mother who has given us a scholar
the caliber of Gerard Libaridian," The audience rose for a moment of
silence in her remembrance.
Libaridian lovingly described his mother as stubborn and feisty. He
commented she died without suffering any illness or pain and was still
her typical self, planning an ambitious agenda of international travel
to be with family and friends covering the next 25 years.
Azadian explained, the professor this evening "would untangle the
web and untangle prospects for the future."
Libaridian has earned an extensive list of credentials to the point
of being overwhelming. Currently he teaches in the History Department
of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and holds the Alex and
Marie Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History. He has published
extensively. He served as a senior advisor to former president of
Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosian, and has lectured internationally. He was
cofounder of the Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Research
in Cambridge, Mass., its director for eight years, and editor of The
Armenian Review. He has accepted the invitation to join the Board of
Transaction Publishers, the largest independent scholarly publisher
in the US besides being its editor of the Armenian Studies Special
Series of Transaction Books.
His audience consisted of a large number of University of Michigan
students from Armenia who afterwards swarmed around Libaridian, eager
to express their appreciation for his historical acumen concerning
events in their homeland.
From: A. Papazian
AZG DAILY
09-11-2010
The local Armenian Democratic League (ADL) and Tekeyan Cultural
Association always manage to present an interesting array of people
and topics to educate and entertain the local community in honor of
Armenian Cultural Month. Their October 1 presentation of "Aghet:
A Genocide," was the perfect beginning. The film was shown at the
Alex and Marie Manoogian Day School in Southfield, Armenian Mirror
Spectator reported October 25.
"Aghet" is the production of German National Television filmmaker Eric
Friedler and producer Katharina Trebitsch. A screening was hosted in
July of this year in Washington, DC by California's Rep. Adam Schiff
to a standing-room-only audience of legislators and activists.
On October 9, the ADL and the Tekeyan Cultural Association (TCA)
presented an evening of "current events" with Prof. Girard Libaridian.
His talk was titled "Russia, Turkey: Another Round - Recent
Developments, Historical Antecedents and future prospects."
Edmond Azadian began the evening by paying tribute to Libaridian's
mother who had recently passed away after a long and productive life
at age 88. He stated, "She was a mother who has given us a scholar
the caliber of Gerard Libaridian," The audience rose for a moment of
silence in her remembrance.
Libaridian lovingly described his mother as stubborn and feisty. He
commented she died without suffering any illness or pain and was still
her typical self, planning an ambitious agenda of international travel
to be with family and friends covering the next 25 years.
Azadian explained, the professor this evening "would untangle the
web and untangle prospects for the future."
Libaridian has earned an extensive list of credentials to the point
of being overwhelming. Currently he teaches in the History Department
of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and holds the Alex and
Marie Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History. He has published
extensively. He served as a senior advisor to former president of
Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosian, and has lectured internationally. He was
cofounder of the Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Research
in Cambridge, Mass., its director for eight years, and editor of The
Armenian Review. He has accepted the invitation to join the Board of
Transaction Publishers, the largest independent scholarly publisher
in the US besides being its editor of the Armenian Studies Special
Series of Transaction Books.
His audience consisted of a large number of University of Michigan
students from Armenia who afterwards swarmed around Libaridian, eager
to express their appreciation for his historical acumen concerning
events in their homeland.
From: A. Papazian