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December 9, 2014 Tuesday
New York: Professor Peter Balakian takes part in cultural exchange
about Armenian genocide
Albany
Colgate University, The State of New York has issued the following
News release:
Colgate Professor Peter Balakian recently joined four other American
writers on a U.S. State Department-sponsored trip to Istanbul, Turkey,
and Yerevan, Armenia.
The trip, part of the University of Iowa International Writers
Program, was a cultural exchange designed to encourage dialogue
between the two countries as the 100th anniversary of the Armenian
genocide draws near.
Peter Balakian
Balakian, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in the Colgate
department of English and the director of creative writing, is one of
the preeminent experts on the Armenian genocide of 1915.
A November article in the Armenian Mirror-Spectator quotes Balakian
about the opportunity during the trip to share his work in public with
Turkish and Armenian writers: "It was an occasion of some symbolic
significance and a small step toward more openness."
Colgate will host two campus events in 2015 to commemorate the
anniversary of the Armenian genocide, Balakian said, including a
special film symposium on April 7 with Canadian director and Oscar
nominee Atom Egoyan. There will also be an Armenian genocide, Yom
Hashoah, and Rwandan genocide commemoration on April 14 with Colgate
faculty who study the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide.
Balakian's new books-Ozone Journal, poems, and Vise and Shadow: Essays
on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture, will be published
in March/April by the University of Chicago Press. The author of nine
previous books and two translations, Balakian is a New York Times and
national best seller.
December 9, 2014 Tuesday
New York: Professor Peter Balakian takes part in cultural exchange
about Armenian genocide
Albany
Colgate University, The State of New York has issued the following
News release:
Colgate Professor Peter Balakian recently joined four other American
writers on a U.S. State Department-sponsored trip to Istanbul, Turkey,
and Yerevan, Armenia.
The trip, part of the University of Iowa International Writers
Program, was a cultural exchange designed to encourage dialogue
between the two countries as the 100th anniversary of the Armenian
genocide draws near.
Peter Balakian
Balakian, Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in the Colgate
department of English and the director of creative writing, is one of
the preeminent experts on the Armenian genocide of 1915.
A November article in the Armenian Mirror-Spectator quotes Balakian
about the opportunity during the trip to share his work in public with
Turkish and Armenian writers: "It was an occasion of some symbolic
significance and a small step toward more openness."
Colgate will host two campus events in 2015 to commemorate the
anniversary of the Armenian genocide, Balakian said, including a
special film symposium on April 7 with Canadian director and Oscar
nominee Atom Egoyan. There will also be an Armenian genocide, Yom
Hashoah, and Rwandan genocide commemoration on April 14 with Colgate
faculty who study the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide.
Balakian's new books-Ozone Journal, poems, and Vise and Shadow: Essays
on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture, will be published
in March/April by the University of Chicago Press. The author of nine
previous books and two translations, Balakian is a New York Times and
national best seller.