Hovannisian Gives Multiple Fall Presentations

LOS ANGELES—During the 2014 fall quarter at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Prof. Richard Hovannisian participated in 20 university and community programs.

His university and academic presentations were on modern Armenian history; the Armenian Genocide and contemporary denial; historic Western Armenia; the Smyrna Calamity of 1922; oral history and memoirs; and the Republic of Armenia. The lectures were given at Boston University on Sept. 25 (Kinosian Chair, Prof. Simon Payaslian); the International Association of Armenian Studies and Matenadaran, Yerevan, Oct. 9-10; the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Oct. 15-17 (Dr. Razmig Panossian, Gulbenkian Foundation, and Prof. Sebouh Aslanian, UCLA); Loyola-Marymount University, Oct. 20 (Department of History, Prof. Najwa al-Qattan); Clark University, Oct. 24-25 (Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair, Worcester State University, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University, and NAASR); University of Michigan-Dearborn, Nov. 2 (Armenian Research Center, Prof. Ara Sanjian); University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Nov. 3 (Armenian Studies Program, Prof. Katherine Babayan); Society for Armenian Studies and Middle East Studies Association, Washington, D.C., Nov. 21-22 (Prof. Bedross Der Matossian, U. of Nebraska); and Chapman University, Dec. 9 (History Department, Dr. Marilyn Harran).

Richard Hovannisian applauds ‘the Haireniks’ during an anniversary reception Oct. 26 hosted by Avo and Carmen Barmakian of Waltham, attended by some 180 guests. (Tom Vartabedian photo)
Richard Hovannisian applauds ‘the Haireniks’ during an anniversary reception Oct. 26 hosted by Avo and Carmen Barmakian of Waltham, attended by some 180 guests. (Tom Vartabedian photo)

Hovannisian also continued his community talks and engagements during the fall quarter. He gave presentations at St. John Armenian Church in San Francisco on Sept. 21; the Organization of Istanbul Armenians, Los Angeles, Sept. 26; St. Gregory the Illuminator Church and Community Center of the United Arab Emirates, Sharjah-Dubai, Oct. 7; Hairenik Association Anniversary, Boston, Oct. 26; St. Leon Church, Fairlawn, N.J., Oct. 30; AGBU Manoogian School, Detroit, Nov. 2; Hamazkayin Cultural Association and Sourp Khatch Church, Washington, D.C., Nov. 22; Hamazkayin, London, Nov. 30; Armenian “National Home/Azkayin Dun,” Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 1; and Armenian Community Center, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Dec. 2.

In Bulgaria, he also gave interviews for local Bulgarian television and was filmed for a Bulgarian documentary on the occasion of the Centenary of the Armenian Genocide. While in Yerevan in October, a ceremony was held at the American University of Armenia (AUA) to acknowledge Hovannisian’s gift of his professional library to the AUA library.

During this period, Hovannisian also began his appointment as Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Southern California to work with the Shoah Foundation on the integration of several hundred survivor testimonies made available by the Armenian Film Foundation.

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