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CANADIAN WRITER SUMMED UP ARMENIAN GENOCIDE EVENTS IN GUIDANCE-ENCYCLOPEDIA
10:22, 21 April, 2015
YEREVAN, 21 APRIL, ARMENPRESS. Canada's Royal Military College
professor, scientist, writer Alan Whitehorn has prepared "Armenian
genocide. Important information guide" ahead of the Centennial of
the Armenian Genocide, which represents the events in encyclopedic
form more than in 400-page. The writer, whose purpose has been the
international recognition of the Armenian Genocide during his whole
life, has worked for three years to create the English guide.
"Such a work of this Encyclopedia has not yet been done. During this,
enormous amount of subjects about the Armenian Genocide have been
studied. There are pages of references from the newspapers of 1915,
as well as there are contemporary documents. The encyclopedia includes
also chronology", as "Armenpress" reports, Alan Whitehorn stated
this during the meeting of the Armenian readers. According to him,
the encyclopedia's both printed and electronic versions are available
Alan Whitehorn is professor of Political Science at the Royal Military
College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. He received his BA in Political
Science and History (York) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science
(Carleton). While at Carleton University, he was research director
on David Lewis's memoirs The Good Fight. For almost three decades
Professor Whitehorn has taught at RMC in the areas of Canadian parties
and public opinion, comparative politics and political theory. Active
in the formation of the faculty union, he has served on its executive
in a number of senior positions. From 1994 to 1996, Dr. Whitehorn was
the first holder of the J.S. Woodsworth chair in Humanities at Simon
Fraser University. During 1997/1998 he was a visiting associate at
McGill University (fall semester), adjunct professor at Simon Fraser
University (spring semester), visiting professor at Carleton University
2005 (winter semester). Amongst his publications are a number of
articles and chapters on the former Yugoslavia and the Armenian
genocide, including the book The Armenian Genocide: Resisting the
Inertia of Indifference (co-author with Lorne Shirinian) (Kingston,
Blue Heron, 2001). His most recent book is entitledAncestral Voices:
Ethnic Roots, Identity and a Genocide Remembered (Winnipeg, Hybrid,
2007). An earlier book of poetry was entitled Poems: Political and
Philosophical (Winnipeg, Hybrid, 2002).
Professor Whitehorn has also written extensively on Canadian politics
both in scholarly books and in newspapers and magazines. He is the
author of Canadian Socialism: Essays on the CCF-NDP(Toronto, Oxford
University Press, 1992), co-author (with Keith Archer) of Political
Activists: The NDP in Convention (Toronto, Oxford University Press,
1997), and co-editor (with Hugh G. Thorburn) of the 8th edition of
Party Politics in Canada (Toronto, Prentice Hall/Pearson Education,
2000). Professor Whitehorn has written a number of entries for The
Canadian Encyclopedia(Hurtig/McClelland and Stewart, book, CD-ROM
and Internet editions), The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
(Toronto, Oxford, 2004), and the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan
(2005). He has chapters in Party Politics in Canada (Toronto,
Prentice Hall-Pearson Education, various editions), Party Democracy
in Canada (Toronto, Prentice Hall, 1987), The Canadian General
Election of 1988(Ottawa, Carleton University Press, 1989), Leaders
and Leadership in Canadian Politics (Toronto, Oxford, 1994), The
Canadian General Election of 1993 (Ottawa, Carleton University Press,
1994), Gender and Contemporary Canadian Politics (Toronto, Oxford,
1995), The Canadian General Election of 1997 (Toronto, Dundurn,
1997), The Canadian General Election of 2000 (Toronto, Dundurn,
2001), Mapping Canadian Federalism for India (Delhi, Konark, 2002),
The Canadian General Election of 2004 (Toronto, Dundurn, 2004), ),
The Canadian Federal Election of 2006 (Toronto, Dundurn, 2006),
Canadian Parties in Transition (Peterborough, Broadview, 2006)
and Yearbook on International Communist Affairs (Stanford, Hoover
Institution, various years). He is also a cross-appointed professor
at Queen's University in Kingston and an Associate of the Institute
for Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver/Burnaby.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/802575/canadian-writer-summed-up-armenian-genocide-events-in-guidance-encyclopedia.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
10:22, 21 April, 2015
YEREVAN, 21 APRIL, ARMENPRESS. Canada's Royal Military College
professor, scientist, writer Alan Whitehorn has prepared "Armenian
genocide. Important information guide" ahead of the Centennial of
the Armenian Genocide, which represents the events in encyclopedic
form more than in 400-page. The writer, whose purpose has been the
international recognition of the Armenian Genocide during his whole
life, has worked for three years to create the English guide.
"Such a work of this Encyclopedia has not yet been done. During this,
enormous amount of subjects about the Armenian Genocide have been
studied. There are pages of references from the newspapers of 1915,
as well as there are contemporary documents. The encyclopedia includes
also chronology", as "Armenpress" reports, Alan Whitehorn stated
this during the meeting of the Armenian readers. According to him,
the encyclopedia's both printed and electronic versions are available
Alan Whitehorn is professor of Political Science at the Royal Military
College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. He received his BA in Political
Science and History (York) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science
(Carleton). While at Carleton University, he was research director
on David Lewis's memoirs The Good Fight. For almost three decades
Professor Whitehorn has taught at RMC in the areas of Canadian parties
and public opinion, comparative politics and political theory. Active
in the formation of the faculty union, he has served on its executive
in a number of senior positions. From 1994 to 1996, Dr. Whitehorn was
the first holder of the J.S. Woodsworth chair in Humanities at Simon
Fraser University. During 1997/1998 he was a visiting associate at
McGill University (fall semester), adjunct professor at Simon Fraser
University (spring semester), visiting professor at Carleton University
2005 (winter semester). Amongst his publications are a number of
articles and chapters on the former Yugoslavia and the Armenian
genocide, including the book The Armenian Genocide: Resisting the
Inertia of Indifference (co-author with Lorne Shirinian) (Kingston,
Blue Heron, 2001). His most recent book is entitledAncestral Voices:
Ethnic Roots, Identity and a Genocide Remembered (Winnipeg, Hybrid,
2007). An earlier book of poetry was entitled Poems: Political and
Philosophical (Winnipeg, Hybrid, 2002).
Professor Whitehorn has also written extensively on Canadian politics
both in scholarly books and in newspapers and magazines. He is the
author of Canadian Socialism: Essays on the CCF-NDP(Toronto, Oxford
University Press, 1992), co-author (with Keith Archer) of Political
Activists: The NDP in Convention (Toronto, Oxford University Press,
1997), and co-editor (with Hugh G. Thorburn) of the 8th edition of
Party Politics in Canada (Toronto, Prentice Hall/Pearson Education,
2000). Professor Whitehorn has written a number of entries for The
Canadian Encyclopedia(Hurtig/McClelland and Stewart, book, CD-ROM
and Internet editions), The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
(Toronto, Oxford, 2004), and the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan
(2005). He has chapters in Party Politics in Canada (Toronto,
Prentice Hall-Pearson Education, various editions), Party Democracy
in Canada (Toronto, Prentice Hall, 1987), The Canadian General
Election of 1988(Ottawa, Carleton University Press, 1989), Leaders
and Leadership in Canadian Politics (Toronto, Oxford, 1994), The
Canadian General Election of 1993 (Ottawa, Carleton University Press,
1994), Gender and Contemporary Canadian Politics (Toronto, Oxford,
1995), The Canadian General Election of 1997 (Toronto, Dundurn,
1997), The Canadian General Election of 2000 (Toronto, Dundurn,
2001), Mapping Canadian Federalism for India (Delhi, Konark, 2002),
The Canadian General Election of 2004 (Toronto, Dundurn, 2004), ),
The Canadian Federal Election of 2006 (Toronto, Dundurn, 2006),
Canadian Parties in Transition (Peterborough, Broadview, 2006)
and Yearbook on International Communist Affairs (Stanford, Hoover
Institution, various years). He is also a cross-appointed professor
at Queen's University in Kingston and an Associate of the Institute
for Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver/Burnaby.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/802575/canadian-writer-summed-up-armenian-genocide-events-in-guidance-encyclopedia.html
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress