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UN headquarters host discussions on Genocide prevention
April 14, 2012 - 19:35 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - On April 12, discussions on Genocide prevention were
held at UN headquarters through support of the Permanent
Representation of Armenia.
Permanent Representative of Armenia to the UN Karen Nazarian delivered
the opening speech, during which he stressed Armenia nation's moral
commitment to promote activity on prevention of genocides as a
genocide survivor. He said that Armenia welcomes efforts of
governments, parliaments, international and non-governmental
organizations, experts in genocide studies, as well as of the Turkish
intellectuals, who back Armenia's activity regarding international
recognition of the atrocity.
Discussions included screening of Michael Hagopian's `River Ran Red '
documentary, followed by comments by Michigan-Dearborn University
professor Dennis R. Papazian, Massachusetts University professor Ervin
Staub and head of the Armenian Film Foundation, film director Carla
Garabedian.
>From April 3-26, Bergen Community College's Gallery Bergen, NJ, in
cooperation with the College's Center for Peace, Justice and
Reconciliation hosts the exhibition titled `Fractured History,
Reconstructing Identity: Degrees of Westernization in Armenian
Painting and Other Mediums.'
The exhibit's curator Vicki Shoghag Hovanessian is an avid collector
of Western and Armenian art for more than 30 years.
Peter Balakian, an author and scholar, will speak at a closing gallery
ceremony on April 26. He serves as the Donald M. and Constance H.
Rebar Professor of the Humanities and director of creative writing in
Colgate University's English department.
Mr. Balakian won the PEN/Albrand Prize for his memoir, `Black Dog of
Fate,' which earned New York Times Notable Book honors, and the 2005
Raphael Lemkin Prize for his book, `The Burning Tigris: The Armenian
Genocide and America's Response.'
April 14, 2012 - 19:35 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - On April 12, discussions on Genocide prevention were
held at UN headquarters through support of the Permanent
Representation of Armenia.
Permanent Representative of Armenia to the UN Karen Nazarian delivered
the opening speech, during which he stressed Armenia nation's moral
commitment to promote activity on prevention of genocides as a
genocide survivor. He said that Armenia welcomes efforts of
governments, parliaments, international and non-governmental
organizations, experts in genocide studies, as well as of the Turkish
intellectuals, who back Armenia's activity regarding international
recognition of the atrocity.
Discussions included screening of Michael Hagopian's `River Ran Red '
documentary, followed by comments by Michigan-Dearborn University
professor Dennis R. Papazian, Massachusetts University professor Ervin
Staub and head of the Armenian Film Foundation, film director Carla
Garabedian.
>From April 3-26, Bergen Community College's Gallery Bergen, NJ, in
cooperation with the College's Center for Peace, Justice and
Reconciliation hosts the exhibition titled `Fractured History,
Reconstructing Identity: Degrees of Westernization in Armenian
Painting and Other Mediums.'
The exhibit's curator Vicki Shoghag Hovanessian is an avid collector
of Western and Armenian art for more than 30 years.
Peter Balakian, an author and scholar, will speak at a closing gallery
ceremony on April 26. He serves as the Donald M. and Constance H.
Rebar Professor of the Humanities and director of creative writing in
Colgate University's English department.
Mr. Balakian won the PEN/Albrand Prize for his memoir, `Black Dog of
Fate,' which earned New York Times Notable Book honors, and the 2005
Raphael Lemkin Prize for his book, `The Burning Tigris: The Armenian
Genocide and America's Response.'