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April 24 2012
Scholar Peter Balakian to Speak at Bergen Community College for
Genocide Awareness Week, April 26, 2012
By Mel Fabrikant Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 07:07 PM EDT
Peter Balakian, an author and scholar, serves as the Donald M. and
Constance H. Rebar professor of humanities and director of creative
writing at Colgate University's English department.
What: Mr. Balakian will discuss `The Armenian Genocide and Modernity'
to commemorate the 97th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and to
mark the closing of the Gallery Bergen exhibit `Fractured History,
Reconstructing Identity: Degrees of Westernization in Armenian
Painting and Other Mediums.'
When: Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Where: Moses Family Meeting and Training Center on the College's main
campus in Paramus.
Why: Mr. Balakian won the PEN/Albrand Prize for his memoir, `Black Dog
of Fate,' which earned New York Times Notable Book honors. His book,
`The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response' won
the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize.
The exhibition is comprised of contemporary paintings, sculptures and
works in other mediums, presented by Armenian artists, who have based
their works on their homeland and the diaspora (migration). Within the
sphere of today's rapidly changing aesthetic boundaries, the
exhibition pays a long-standing and essential tribute to the
accomplishments of a group of Armenian artists whose fractured history
and reconstructed identity remains to be universally assessed and
culturally recognized.
Founded at Bergen Community College in 2009, the Center for Peace,
Justice and Reconciliation (CPJR) exists to develop the passion and
skills needed to work for peace, justice, and reconciliation, with a
special focus on the Armenian historical and cultural context.
http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/20120424190716801
April 24 2012
Scholar Peter Balakian to Speak at Bergen Community College for
Genocide Awareness Week, April 26, 2012
By Mel Fabrikant Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 07:07 PM EDT
Peter Balakian, an author and scholar, serves as the Donald M. and
Constance H. Rebar professor of humanities and director of creative
writing at Colgate University's English department.
What: Mr. Balakian will discuss `The Armenian Genocide and Modernity'
to commemorate the 97th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and to
mark the closing of the Gallery Bergen exhibit `Fractured History,
Reconstructing Identity: Degrees of Westernization in Armenian
Painting and Other Mediums.'
When: Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Where: Moses Family Meeting and Training Center on the College's main
campus in Paramus.
Why: Mr. Balakian won the PEN/Albrand Prize for his memoir, `Black Dog
of Fate,' which earned New York Times Notable Book honors. His book,
`The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response' won
the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Prize.
The exhibition is comprised of contemporary paintings, sculptures and
works in other mediums, presented by Armenian artists, who have based
their works on their homeland and the diaspora (migration). Within the
sphere of today's rapidly changing aesthetic boundaries, the
exhibition pays a long-standing and essential tribute to the
accomplishments of a group of Armenian artists whose fractured history
and reconstructed identity remains to be universally assessed and
culturally recognized.
Founded at Bergen Community College in 2009, the Center for Peace,
Justice and Reconciliation (CPJR) exists to develop the passion and
skills needed to work for peace, justice, and reconciliation, with a
special focus on the Armenian historical and cultural context.
http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/20120424190716801