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    PRESS RELEASE
    Ararat-Eskijian Museum
    15105 Mission Hills Rd
    Mission Hills CA, 91345
    Email: [email protected]
    Tel: 818-838-4862


    RICHARD HOVANNISIAN TO LECTURE ON SMYRNA CATASTROPHE AT WESTERN DIOCESE


    Professor Richard G. Hovannisian will present an illustrated lecture,
    `The Smyrna Catastrophe, 1922-2012,' on Thursday, January 31, 2013,
    at 7:00 p.m., in the Zorayan Museum at the Western Diocese of the
    Armenian Church, 3325 N. Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank, CA 91504. The
    program will be held under the auspices of the Western Diocese, His
    Eminence Abp. Hovnan Derderian, Primate, and with the co-sponsorship
    of The Ararat-Eskijian Museum and the National Association for
    Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR).

    September 2012 marked the 90th anniversary of the Smyrna Catastrophe
    when much of the city, the second largest in the Ottoman Empire, was
    destroyed by fire during the final phase of the Greco-Turkish War. The
    calamity marked the end of a strong Christian presence in the historic
    Aegean coastal regions and turned hundreds of thousands of Greeks and
    Armenians into refugees.

    In this illustrated lecture, Prof. Richard Hovannisian will discuss the
    important role of Smyrna (Izmir) in modern Armenian history and the
    inferno that engulfed the city in September 1922. Hovannisian is the
    editor of the recently published Armenian Smyrna/Izmir, the eleventh
    volume of proceedings from the UCLA conference series `Historic
    Armenian Cities and Provinces.' He also traveled to Izmir and
    environs in June 2012 as the historian-guide for a NAASR Armenian
    Heritage Tour led by Armen Aroyan.

    A book signing of Armenian Smyrna/Izmir will immediately follow the
    lecture. The lecture is free and open to the public.

    Richard Hovannisian is the author of Armenia on the Road to
    Independence, the four-volume history The Republic of Armenia, and has
    edited and contributed to more than twenty-five books including The
    Armenian Genocide in Perspective; The Armenian People from Ancient to
    Modern Times; Remembrance and Denial; Looking Backward, Moving Forward;
    and The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies. Professor
    Hovannisian was the first holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation
    Chair in Modern Armenian History at UCLA and currently serves as
    Distinguished Chancellor's Fellow at Chapman University in
    Orange County and Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the University of
    California, Irvine.

    For more information about the January 31 program contact the Western
    Diocese at 818-558-7474, the Ararat-Eskijian Museum at
    [email protected] or 818-838-4862, or NAASR at
    617-489-1610 or [email protected].

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