PRESS RELEASE
UCLA AEF Chair in Armenian History
Contact: Prof. Richard Hovannisian
Tel: 310-825-3375
Email: [email protected]
Attached press release and photo on Professor
Hovannisian at Florida Atlantic and Clark Universities. Also pasted below
Press Release-UCLA-March 13, 2008
Richard Hovannisian as Distinguished Professor at
Florida Atlantic and Clark Universities
UCLA-Richard G. Hovannisian, AEF Chair in Modern Armenian History at
UCLA, has been invited as a distinguished visiting professor at
Florida Atlantic University and Clark University, two leading
institutions with programs in Holocaust and Genocide studies, during
the months of March and April.
Florida Atlantic University
At Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, from mid-March
to mid-April, Hovannisian will be the first Jim and Marta Batmasian
visiting scholar associated with FAU’s Holocaust Center and its
Ph.D. Program in Comparative Studies. He will teach a graduate seminar
on `Recent Historiography on the Armenian Genocide,’ be the guest
speaker of the "Friends of the Raddock Chair" in Holocaust Studies on
March 19, make a presentation to the parish of St. David Armenian
Church on March 21, and give two public lectures at FAU on the
Armenian Genocide as a prototype on April 2 and 6. Professor Alan
Berger, Raddock Family Eminent Scholar in Holocaust Studies, stated:
`We are elated and most honored that Professor Hovannisian will join
us at FAU, and know that he will contribute greatly to our
understanding of the Armenian Genocide in comparative perspective.’
Clark University
From Florida, Richard Hovannisian will travel to Worcester,
Massachusetts, as a distinguished visiting professor at Clark
University, its Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies
and Modern Armenian History and its Strassler Family Center for
Holocaust and Genocide Studies. As the search for the next occupant
for the Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair is being conducted, Hovannisian will
help to maintain the program’s continuity by meeting with graduate
students in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, giving guest lectures on
the subjects of `Premeditation or Incremental Violence in the Armenian
Genocide?’; `Denial of the Armenian Genocide in Comparative
Perspective’; `Oral History: How Reliable Is It?’; `The Landscape of
Historic Western Armenia’; and `Must We Still Remember? The Armenian
Genocide’, and a `Lunch and Learn Seminar.’ His visit will commence
with receptions by Clark President John Bassett and Provost David
Angel and will include events with Professor Deborah Dwork, Director
of the Strassler Family Center, the Kaloosdian and Mugar families and
other donors to the Armenian Program, and the Armenian community of
Central Massachusetts.
Recent Activities
During the Winter Quarter at UCLA, Professor Hovannisian has
maintained a busy schedule of teaching, community outreach, and
conferences. In January, he participated in the American Historical
Association’s Annual Conference held in Washington D.C., chairing a
panel on Armenian repatriation, and in a program in the Armenian
Church Western Diocese reflected on the legacy of Hrant Dink. In
February, he lectured on Armenian subjects in Frankfurt and Cologne,
Germany, gave a keynote talk at the Armenian Graduate Studies
Conference at UCLA, and participated in a dialogue with Taner Akcam in
a major human rights convocation at California State University, Long
Beach, with Professors Houri Berberian and Ali Ingman as moderators.
On February 29-March 1, as the Holder of the AEF Chair in Armenian
History, Hovannisian organized the seventeenth consecutive
international conference on Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces,
this one devoted to the communities of the Northeastern Mediterranean:
Dort-Yol, Musa Dagh, and Kessab. On March 6, he participated in a UCLA
panel on genocide denial sponsored by the undergraduate and graduate
Armenian Student Associations and the Shant ARF Student Committee. On
March 7, he spoke under the auspices of the Toronto AGBU on the
Historic Armenian Provinces, and on March 9 gave a power-point
presentation in a program organized by the Armenian National Committee
of New Jersey.
During this same period, three new publications by
Professor Hovannisian were released: 1). The Armenian Genocide:
Ethical and Cultural Legacies (Transaction Books); 2). Armenian
Cilicia (Simon Payaslian, co-editor; Mazda Publishers);
3). Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniia Respubliki Armeniia, 1918-1920
(International Relations of the Republic of Armenia), a Russian
translation of fifteen selected chapters from his four-volume The
Republic of Armenia (Armenian Academy of Sciences). He also wrote the
chapter on the Armenian Genocide in the photographic
collection by Lane Montgomery, Never Again, Again, Again =85. Genocide.
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