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    EDITOR OF LEMKIN AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO SPEAK AT NAASR

    http://www.armenianweekly.com/2013/09/06/editor-of-lemkin-autobiography-to-speak-at-naasr/
    By Contributor // September 6, 2013

    BELMONT, Mass.-On Thurs., Sept. 19, Dr. Donna-Lee Frieze, a genocide
    scholar and editor of the newly published autobiography of Raphael
    Lemkin, will give a lecture entitled "Raphael Lemkin: The Armenian
    Genocide and the Autobiography of the 'Insistent Prophet'" at the
    National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
    in Belmont. The lecture will be co-sponsored by Facing History and
    Ourselves of Brookline, and NAASR.

    Cover of 'Totally Unofficial'

    When Lemkin collapsed at a bus stop on 42nd Street in New York City on
    Aug. 29, 1959, he had either just visited the Curtis Brown Publishing
    Agency on Madison Avenue or was on his way there to discuss his
    autobiography, Totally Unofficial. He left behind a near-complete
    autobiography, which was eventually donated to the New York Public
    Library 23 years after his death, in August 1982, by Alexander Gabriel
    from the Transradio News Agency, UN Bureau.

    In June 2013, Yale University Press published Totally Unofficial,
    in which Lemkin highlights the Armenian Genocide to articulate
    his conceptual understanding of the meaning of genocide. Lemkin's
    autobiography clearly underscores the lawyer's detailed analysis of
    the crime. It is argued that the events of 1915 provided the framework
    for Lemkin's understanding of genocide as a crime of intended group
    destruction, and not necessarily as mass killing. The long-awaited
    publication of Lemkin's autobiography is a watershed event in the
    ongoing reassessment of his seminal work on genocide.

    Donna-Lee Frieze is a Prins Senior Fellow at the Center for Jewish
    History in New York City and a Visiting Fellow at the Alfred Deakin
    Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia. She taught a graduate
    unit, "Genocide," for more than 10 years at Deakin University,
    Melbourne, and has published widely on the Armenian Genocide,
    the Holocaust, and the Bosnian Genocide in relation to testimony,
    film, and philosophy. She was the editor and transcriber of Lemkin's
    autobiographyTotally Unofficial and the first vice-president of the
    International Association of Genocide Scholars.

    The lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. at NAASR, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont.

    The NAASR Bookstore will open at 7 p.m. the night of the lecture.

    Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkinwill be
    available for purchase the night of the lecture. For more information,
    call (617) 489-1610 or e-mail [email protected].



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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