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'ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN FILM' SERIES TO BEGIN ON CAMPUS
US Fed News
February 10, 2015 Tuesday 1:58 PM EST
FRESNO, Calif., Feb. 10 -- California State University Fresno issued
the following press release:
The first of three free, public lectures exploring "The Armenian
Genocide in Film: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives" will be
held at Fresno State beginning Wednesday, Feb. 11.
The talks will be presented by Dr. Myrna Douzjian, the Henry K.
Khanzadian Kazan visiting professor of Armenian studies, who currently
teaches comparative literature courses at the University of California,
Los Angeles.
She will first discuss "The Genocide as Allegory in Serge Avedikian's
Chienned Histoire" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11 at the Alice Peters
Auditorium, Room 191, in the Peters Business Building.
There will be a reception with free hors d'oeuvres from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
in the University Business Center gallery outside the auditorium.
The series of lectures will explore three films and an audiovisual
art installation in the context of the tension between fiction and
history, said Dr. Barlow Der Mugrdechian, coordinator of Fresno
State's Armenian Studies Program.
Douzjian's other two lectures will be "Atom Egoyan's Ararat: Traumatic
Histories and Transitional Identities" on Thursday, March 19 and
"Reinventing the Genocide Documentary: Memories without Borders and
Solemnity" on Wednesday, April 8.
"The lectures will demonstrate that these texts, though completely
different in terms subgenre, complicate notions about interpreting
the Armenian Genocide," Der Mugrdechian said. "Taken together,
the lectures assert that the filmic arts have a serious role to
play in our understanding of the genocide, one that goes beyond the
fetishization of history."
The inaugural talk by Douzjian depicts the eradication of stray dogs
in the city of Constantinople in 1910.
"The short animated film serves as a representation of the genocide
of the Armenians," Der Mugrdechian said.
Douzjian, who earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature from UCLA,
has published translations of contemporary Armenian poetry and drama
and regularly contributes articles dealing with diaspora Armenian
film and culture to the syndicated column, "Critics' Forum." She has
taught world literature and philosophical thought in the Intellectual
Heritage Program at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Free parking is available after 7 p.m. at Fresno State in lots P5
and P6 near the University Business Center with a parking code from
the Armenian Studies Program office.
US Fed News
February 10, 2015 Tuesday 1:58 PM EST
FRESNO, Calif., Feb. 10 -- California State University Fresno issued
the following press release:
The first of three free, public lectures exploring "The Armenian
Genocide in Film: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives" will be
held at Fresno State beginning Wednesday, Feb. 11.
The talks will be presented by Dr. Myrna Douzjian, the Henry K.
Khanzadian Kazan visiting professor of Armenian studies, who currently
teaches comparative literature courses at the University of California,
Los Angeles.
She will first discuss "The Genocide as Allegory in Serge Avedikian's
Chienned Histoire" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11 at the Alice Peters
Auditorium, Room 191, in the Peters Business Building.
There will be a reception with free hors d'oeuvres from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
in the University Business Center gallery outside the auditorium.
The series of lectures will explore three films and an audiovisual
art installation in the context of the tension between fiction and
history, said Dr. Barlow Der Mugrdechian, coordinator of Fresno
State's Armenian Studies Program.
Douzjian's other two lectures will be "Atom Egoyan's Ararat: Traumatic
Histories and Transitional Identities" on Thursday, March 19 and
"Reinventing the Genocide Documentary: Memories without Borders and
Solemnity" on Wednesday, April 8.
"The lectures will demonstrate that these texts, though completely
different in terms subgenre, complicate notions about interpreting
the Armenian Genocide," Der Mugrdechian said. "Taken together,
the lectures assert that the filmic arts have a serious role to
play in our understanding of the genocide, one that goes beyond the
fetishization of history."
The inaugural talk by Douzjian depicts the eradication of stray dogs
in the city of Constantinople in 1910.
"The short animated film serves as a representation of the genocide
of the Armenians," Der Mugrdechian said.
Douzjian, who earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature from UCLA,
has published translations of contemporary Armenian poetry and drama
and regularly contributes articles dealing with diaspora Armenian
film and culture to the syndicated column, "Critics' Forum." She has
taught world literature and philosophical thought in the Intellectual
Heritage Program at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Free parking is available after 7 p.m. at Fresno State in lots P5
and P6 near the University Business Center with a parking code from
the Armenian Studies Program office.