GLENDALE, CA Glendale Public Library proudly hosts the 95TH Anniversary
Symposium on the Armenian Genocide, at the Glendale Public Library
Auditorium, 222 East Harvard Street, on Sunday, April 18, 2010,
3:00-6:00 pm. Admission is free.
The program will include lectures on Looking Backward, Moving Forward by
Richard G. Hovannisian, Scandinavia and the Armenian Genocide: Prelude,
Eyewitnesses, Aftermath by Matthias Bjørnlund, What Could Germans in
the Third Reich Know about the Armenian Genocide? By Wolf Gruner and
Reign of Terror: Young Turk Mass Violence in Context, 1913-1938 by Ugur
Ümit Üngör.
Richard G. Hovannisian is the Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in
Modern Armenian History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Matthias Bjørnlund is a Danish archival historian who specializes in
the Armenian Genocide and related issues. Wolf Gruner holds the
Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish Studies and is Professor of History at
the University of Southern California. Ugur Ümit Üngör has worked
at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Great Britain, and
is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for War
Studies of University College Dublin.
The program is organized by Dr. Hovannisian, in cooperation with the
Glendale Public Library & support from the Souren and Verkin Papazian
Fund.