Lecture and Course on Ethnic Separatist Movements in the Caucasus (New Brunswick, N.J.)

FALL 2009 * COURSE: ‘CONFLICT IN CAUCASUS.’ The Rutgers University Armenian Studies Program will sponsor a course for the first time this fall semester, on the Rutgers New Brunswick, N.J. campus. It will take place on Mondays, from 6:10-9 p.m. in Scott 115. The title of the course is “Conflict in the Caucasus: Ethnic Separatist Movements in Comparative Perspective,”  and will study several of the ongoing ethnic conflicts in the Caucasus, using the dispute over the Nagorno-Karabagh region as a case study. Dr. John Antranig Kasbarian, who received his Ph.D. from the Rutgers University Department of Geography, will be the visiting instructor.  For more information, call James Sahagian at (201) 739-0901.