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    PROF. RUBINA PEROOMIAN TO SPEAK ON ARMENIAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT
    Dr. Rubina Peroomian

    asbarez
    Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

    LA CRESCENTA-Prof. Rubina Peroomian will be the honorary guest speaker
    on "The Significance of Atrpatakan in the Armenian Liberation Movement
    " at Armenian Apostolic Church of Crescenta Valley, located at Western
    Prelacy's " Dikran and Zarouhi Der Ghazarian " Hall, at 6252 Honolulu
    Ave., in La Crescenta, California on Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 1 pm,
    following the church service. Prior to the lecture program, there
    will also be a Requiem Service in memory of Atrpatakan's Armenian
    intellectuals and public servants at 11 a.m. Participating in the
    cultural program will be Mr. & Mrs. Bogos Oganisyan and Zhanna
    Khachatryan. This memorable program is a joint undertaking of Urmia
    Armenian Society with Educational Committee of Crescenta Valley
    Armenian Apostolic Church.

    Rubina Peroomian is a Research Associate at UCLA, where she earned
    her PhD. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. She has taught
    Armenian Studies courses at UCLA, Glendale Community College,
    and the University of Laverne. Her publications include: Literary
    Responses to Catastrophe: A Comparison of the Armenian and the Jewish
    Experience, and And those who Continued Living in Turkey after
    1915, The Metamorphoses of the Post-Genocide Armenian Identity as
    Reflected in Artistic Literature, as well as, Hayastane HHD-Bolshevik
    Haraberutunneri Volortum, 1917-1921 (Translated and published in
    Russian); a series of three secondary textbooks, Hay Tahd, for Diaspora
    Armenian high schools, Haykakan Hartsi Patmutiun 9-10, for high schools
    in Armenia. She has compiled and edited a teacher's guide on how to
    teach the Armenian Genocide to Armenian students in K-12 Armenian
    schools. She has authored several research articles on the Armenian
    Genocide and diasporan literature in English and Armenian in scholarly
    journals and has contributed chapters in books. She has lectured
    widely and made presentations in Armenian and international symposia.

    In an e'poque of political reawakening, when Armenian secret cells were
    mushrooming in the Ottoman and Russian empires, Atrpatakan Armenians
    were still dormant, submerged in ignorance, living under the constant
    threat of local Turks and Kurds. Atrpatakan, the Persian Azerbaijan,
    was the unique socio-political milieu to give birth to Raffi the
    revolutionary novelist and the harbinger of the Armenian liberation
    movement. And very soon Raffi's characters, Sarhat, Vardan, Aslan,
    Karo, Farhat, Vorsord Avo, were reincarnated in an elite generation
    with strong dedication to the Armenian cause, Nikoghaios Melik Tangian
    was one of them. Atrpatakan in its proximity to Russian and Ottoman
    Armenia became a bridge and a beehive of political and paramilitary
    preparative activities, and many of these selfless devotees crossed
    Atrpatakan to go to Erkir leaving a memory, a trait, a character
    to remember.

    As a result of concentration of manpower in Atrpatakan-cultural,
    political and revolutionary-community life was bolstered.

    Revolutionary activists assumed teaching positions in Tabriz, Salmast,
    and Urmieh. Schools were opened in Muzhumbar, Maragha and Gardabad.

    Atrpatakan Armenians developed a sense of sympathy and enthusiasm
    toward the Sourp Gorts. They patronized the activists with financial
    means and by interventing with the government when they were in
    trouble. Were they only the facilitators with insignificant degree of
    participation-as reflected in so many memories? What psychological
    impact did the presence of these outsider Armenians leave upon the
    Atrpatakan Armenians? Did that impact result in a lasting mindset?

    The lecture will sketch the political history of Atrpatakan Armenians
    in critical period between the initial years of burgeoning enthusiasm
    for the liberation movement to their fervent support of the Iranian
    Constitutional Revolution. Within the paradigm of Atrpatakan Armenians'
    response to this history also lies the answer to the question above.

    The general public is invited to participate in this special Requiem
    Service and this interesting and very informative lecture and public
    service program. Admission is free. There will also be a reception.




    From: A. Papazian
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