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RENOWNED POET, AUTHOR TO LECTURE AT MTSU
The Daily News Journal
http://www.dnj.com/article/20110308/NEWS01/110308009/1002/Renowned+poet++author+to+lecture+at+MTSU
March 8 2011
Award-winning poet and author Peter Balakian will bring his expertise
on the Armenian genocide to MTSU on Friday, March 18, as part of the
university's ongoing Distinguished Lecture Series.
Balakian's free public lecture, "The Armenian Genocide and Modernity,"
is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. March 18 in the State Farm Lecture
Hall, Room S102, of the MTSU Business and Aerospace Building.
Balakian is the Rebar Professor of the Humanities in the Department
of English at Colgate University, where he also runs the Creative
Writing Program and was the first director of the university's Center
For Ethics and World Societies.
He is a well-known advocate for greater recognition of one of the
20th century's worst episodes of mass violence, in which some 1.5
million Armenians, including members of his own family, were killed
by the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
The professor has appeared on "60 Minutes," "Fresh Air," "The Charlie
Rose Show" and numerous other national programs discussing the killings
and the struggle to obtain Turkish recognition of the genocide.
In addition to his Pen/Albrand Prize-winning memoir, Black Dog
of Fate, and the first English translation of Armenian Golgotha:
A Memoir Of The Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918 by his great-uncle,
Grigoris Balakian, Balakian is also the author of six books of
poems, most recently Ziggurat, published in September 2010 by the
University of Chicago Press. His essays on poetry, culture, art, and
social thought have appeared in many respected publications, and he
is co-founder and co-editor with the poet Bruce Smith of the poetry
magazine Graham House Review, which was published from 1976 to 1996,
and is the co-translator with Nevart Yaghlian of the book of poems
Bloody News >>From My Friend by the Armenian poet Siamanto.
The lecture is sponsored by the MTSU History Department, Department
of English, the Holocaust Studies Committee and the MTSU Distinguished
Lecture Fund.
Visitors planning to attend Balakian's free lecture should park in
the large MTSU parking lot east of Rutherford Boulevard and ride the
Raider Xpress shuttle to the Business and Aerospace Building to avoid
traffic congestion caused by construction in the area.
For more information on the Balakian lecture, contact MTSU history
professor Mark Doyle at [email protected] or the College of Liberal
Arts at 615-494-7628.
From: A. Papazian
The Daily News Journal
http://www.dnj.com/article/20110308/NEWS01/110308009/1002/Renowned+poet++author+to+lecture+at+MTSU
March 8 2011
Award-winning poet and author Peter Balakian will bring his expertise
on the Armenian genocide to MTSU on Friday, March 18, as part of the
university's ongoing Distinguished Lecture Series.
Balakian's free public lecture, "The Armenian Genocide and Modernity,"
is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. March 18 in the State Farm Lecture
Hall, Room S102, of the MTSU Business and Aerospace Building.
Balakian is the Rebar Professor of the Humanities in the Department
of English at Colgate University, where he also runs the Creative
Writing Program and was the first director of the university's Center
For Ethics and World Societies.
He is a well-known advocate for greater recognition of one of the
20th century's worst episodes of mass violence, in which some 1.5
million Armenians, including members of his own family, were killed
by the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
The professor has appeared on "60 Minutes," "Fresh Air," "The Charlie
Rose Show" and numerous other national programs discussing the killings
and the struggle to obtain Turkish recognition of the genocide.
In addition to his Pen/Albrand Prize-winning memoir, Black Dog
of Fate, and the first English translation of Armenian Golgotha:
A Memoir Of The Armenian Genocide, 1915-1918 by his great-uncle,
Grigoris Balakian, Balakian is also the author of six books of
poems, most recently Ziggurat, published in September 2010 by the
University of Chicago Press. His essays on poetry, culture, art, and
social thought have appeared in many respected publications, and he
is co-founder and co-editor with the poet Bruce Smith of the poetry
magazine Graham House Review, which was published from 1976 to 1996,
and is the co-translator with Nevart Yaghlian of the book of poems
Bloody News >>From My Friend by the Armenian poet Siamanto.
The lecture is sponsored by the MTSU History Department, Department
of English, the Holocaust Studies Committee and the MTSU Distinguished
Lecture Fund.
Visitors planning to attend Balakian's free lecture should park in
the large MTSU parking lot east of Rutherford Boulevard and ride the
Raider Xpress shuttle to the Business and Aerospace Building to avoid
traffic congestion caused by construction in the area.
For more information on the Balakian lecture, contact MTSU history
professor Mark Doyle at [email protected] or the College of Liberal
Arts at 615-494-7628.
From: A. Papazian