THE YEAR OF THE BOOK IN ARMENIA:
Sunday, March 11, 2012 2pm
As part of a special visit to Southern California during 2012, during which UNESCO has chosen Yerevan as its World Book Capital and Armenia is celebrating the 500th anniversary of the first printed Armenian book, Dr. Hayk Demoyan will discuss some of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute?s major recent publications in Armenian, English, and French on the Armenian Genocide, including survivor memoirs, eyewitness accounts, research on Armenian social life before the Genocide, reprinted editions of rare primary sources, collections of newly-discovered documents, and works on the Cilicia massacres of 1909.
Dr. Hayk Demoyan is the Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan, Armenia, a position he has held since 2006. He is currently also serving as a secretary of the state commission for coordinating events dedicated to the centennial anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Demoyan was born in the city of Leninakan (now Gyumri) in Soviet Armenia. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Oriental Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, and is a lecturer at the History Department of Yerevan State University. He is also a researcher and has written several books on such topics such as the Armenian Genocide, Turkish foreign policy, and Turkey?s involvement in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict of 1991-1994. His most recent book publication is Armenian National Symbols, Flags, and Coats of Arms (in Armenian, 2011). for addl information please contact Glendale Public Library at 818-548-3288 or Egrigorian@ci.glendale.ca.us; the Ararat-Eskijian Museum at 818-838-4862 or ararat-eskijian-museum@netzero.net; or NAASR at 617-489-1610 or hq@naasr.org.
