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Peter Balakian to teach Fall 2013 course at Columbia
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Published: Saturday August 03, 2013
Peter Balakian.
NEW YORK - Prize-winning writer and scholar Peter Balakian has been
appointed the Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian Visiting Professor in the
Department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia
University for the Fall of 2013. He is the Donald M. and Constance H.
Rebar Professor of the Humanities in the department of English at
Colgate University, where he has taught since 1980. Professor Balakian
was also the first Director of Colgate's Center for Ethics and World
Societies. Balakian's nine books include Black Dog of Fate, which won
the PEN/Albrand Prize for memoir, and The Burning Tigris:The Armenian
Genocide and America's Response, which won the Raphael lemkin Prize
and was a New York Times best seller.
The pioneering scholar, in English, who opened up in Anglo-American
literature the field of Armenian genocide trauma and memory studies,
Professor Balakian will be teaching a course entitled THE ARMENIAN
GENOCIDE & THE HOLOCAUST: MEMORY & REPRESENTATION. This course has
been approved to satisfy Columbia University's Global Core requirement
- a first for any courses offered through the Ordjanian Visiting
Professorship Program. The seminar style course (G4326, Call # 86035)
will be taught on Thursdays from 2:10 - 4:00 pm and is open to
auditors as well as matriculating students. Registration is from
August 26 - 30 and classes begin September 5. Tuition for auditors
will be $2,500 and for Lifelong Learners (people over the age of 65)
will be $800 . Registration may be done online at
www.ce.columbia.edu/auditing or by calling (212) 854-9666.
This course will be an investigation of the impact of genocide on the
self and the imagination's representations in literature, film, and
video testimony. Primary texts will include poetry, memoir, video
testimony, film and visual art. The course will concern itself with
the aftermath of two twentieth century genocides - that of the
Armenians in Turkey during World War I and that of the Jews in Europe
during World War II - both seminal events of the twentieth century
that, in various ways, became models for ensuing genocides.
The Visiting Professorship program at Columbia is made possible by an
endowment established by the late Dr. Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian in
1998. Previous Visiting Professors have included Levon Abrahamian,
Vardan Azatyan, Melissa Bilal, Beorge Bournoutian, Seta Dadoyan, Helen
Evans, Roberta Ervine, Rachel Goshgarian, Arman Grigoryan, Robert
Hewsen, Ara Sarafian and Khachig Tololyan.
The Fall 2013 Ordjanian Visiting Professorship received additional
support from a generous grant from the Armenian General Benevolent
Union (AGBU).
The Visiting Professorship is one of several programs of the Armenian
Center at Columbia, the organization that raised the initial funds to
establish a Chair of Armenian Studies at Columbia in 1979 and which
continues to provide funds for scholarships, library acquisitions,
academic publications, lectures, conferences and symposia.
For more information about the Armenian Center at Columbia, please
call Karen Bedrosian Richardson at (212) 949-1995. For more
information about the upcoming course being taught by Professor Peter
Balakian, please contact him at [email protected] or (917)
743-9005.
http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2013-08-03-peter-balakian-to-teach-fall-2013-course-at-columbia
Published: Saturday August 03, 2013
Peter Balakian.
NEW YORK - Prize-winning writer and scholar Peter Balakian has been
appointed the Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian Visiting Professor in the
Department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia
University for the Fall of 2013. He is the Donald M. and Constance H.
Rebar Professor of the Humanities in the department of English at
Colgate University, where he has taught since 1980. Professor Balakian
was also the first Director of Colgate's Center for Ethics and World
Societies. Balakian's nine books include Black Dog of Fate, which won
the PEN/Albrand Prize for memoir, and The Burning Tigris:The Armenian
Genocide and America's Response, which won the Raphael lemkin Prize
and was a New York Times best seller.
The pioneering scholar, in English, who opened up in Anglo-American
literature the field of Armenian genocide trauma and memory studies,
Professor Balakian will be teaching a course entitled THE ARMENIAN
GENOCIDE & THE HOLOCAUST: MEMORY & REPRESENTATION. This course has
been approved to satisfy Columbia University's Global Core requirement
- a first for any courses offered through the Ordjanian Visiting
Professorship Program. The seminar style course (G4326, Call # 86035)
will be taught on Thursdays from 2:10 - 4:00 pm and is open to
auditors as well as matriculating students. Registration is from
August 26 - 30 and classes begin September 5. Tuition for auditors
will be $2,500 and for Lifelong Learners (people over the age of 65)
will be $800 . Registration may be done online at
www.ce.columbia.edu/auditing or by calling (212) 854-9666.
This course will be an investigation of the impact of genocide on the
self and the imagination's representations in literature, film, and
video testimony. Primary texts will include poetry, memoir, video
testimony, film and visual art. The course will concern itself with
the aftermath of two twentieth century genocides - that of the
Armenians in Turkey during World War I and that of the Jews in Europe
during World War II - both seminal events of the twentieth century
that, in various ways, became models for ensuing genocides.
The Visiting Professorship program at Columbia is made possible by an
endowment established by the late Dr. Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian in
1998. Previous Visiting Professors have included Levon Abrahamian,
Vardan Azatyan, Melissa Bilal, Beorge Bournoutian, Seta Dadoyan, Helen
Evans, Roberta Ervine, Rachel Goshgarian, Arman Grigoryan, Robert
Hewsen, Ara Sarafian and Khachig Tololyan.
The Fall 2013 Ordjanian Visiting Professorship received additional
support from a generous grant from the Armenian General Benevolent
Union (AGBU).
The Visiting Professorship is one of several programs of the Armenian
Center at Columbia, the organization that raised the initial funds to
establish a Chair of Armenian Studies at Columbia in 1979 and which
continues to provide funds for scholarships, library acquisitions,
academic publications, lectures, conferences and symposia.
For more information about the Armenian Center at Columbia, please
call Karen Bedrosian Richardson at (212) 949-1995. For more
information about the upcoming course being taught by Professor Peter
Balakian, please contact him at [email protected] or (917)
743-9005.