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    Author Balakian to give Holocaust Lecture
    By Barbara Rea

    Washington University Record, Washington
    29 Oct. 2004

    Peter Balakian, Ph.D., will give the Holocaust Lecture for the Assembly
    Series at 4 p.m. Nov. 4 in Graham Chapel. His talk is titled "The
    Armenian Genocide and America's First International Human Rights
    Movement."

    Peter Balakian

    Balakian is the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the
    Humanities and professor of English at Colgate University, and a
    human-rights activist who has been involved in the national and
    international movement for Armenian genocide recognition.

    In his 2004 book, The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and
    America's Response, he describes the systematic deportation and
    murder of as many as 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks
    during World War I. The book was a New York Times Notable Book and
    a New York Times best seller.

    The Burning Tigris followed a 1997 memoir, Black Dog of Fate, which
    won the 1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Prize for the Art of the Memoir and
    appeared on the "best books of the year lists" for The New York Times,
    Los Angeles Times and Publisher's Weekly.

    In addition, Balakian has written a book of poetry, June-tree: New
    and Selected Poems, 1974-2000, published in 2001, and a book on the
    American poet Theodore Roethke. He has also co-translated Armenian
    poet Siamanto's Bloody News From My Friend. Between 1976-1996, he
    and Bruce Smith edited the poetry journal Graham House Review.

    Most notable among Balakian's many awards, prizes and civic citations
    are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts
    Fellowship, an Ellis Island Medal of Honor and the Ahanhit Literary
    Prize.

    He earned an undergraduate degree from Bucknell University and a
    doctorate from Brown University.

    Assembly Series lectures are free and open to the public. For more
    information, go online to assemblyseries.wustl.edu or call 935-4620.
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