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  • Raffi Hovannisian to speak at Clark U re Armenia at Crossroads

    PRESS RELEASE
    Tatyana Macaulay, Ph.D.
    Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
    address: Clark University, 950 Main St., Worcester, MA 01610, U.S.A.
    email: [email protected]
    phone: 508-793-7764
    fax: 508-421-3806


    February 20, 2007

    Clark lecturer to discuss 'Armenia at the Crossroads'

    WORCESTER, MA--The Clark University Strassler Family Center for Holocaust
    and Genocide Studies will present "Ancient Civilization and Modern
    Statecraft: Armenia at the Crossroads," by Raffi Hovannisian, founding
    director of the Armenian Center for National and International Studies
    (ACNIS) in Yerevan, Armenia, at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 15, in Room 320
    of the Jefferson Academic Center, 950 Main Street.

    In his lecture, Mr. Hovannisian will assess the next phase of Armenia's
    development, which he holds is to rediscover its role as a member of the
    family of nations while striving to unite the vast political, economic,
    cultural, and intellectual potential of Armenians throughout the world.

    Mr. Hovannisian served as independent Armenia's first Minister of Foreign
    Affairs, helping the country gain entry into the United Nations. His
    educational background includes: J.D. at Georgetown University Law Center;
    The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (M.A.L.D. awarded
    in 1982; and University of California, Berkeley and Los Angeles (B.A., summa
    cum laude, awarded in 1980 in History and Near Eastern Studies; Justin
    Turner Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis).

    This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact
    508-793-8897.
    Founded in 1994, ACNIS serves as a link between innovative scholarship and
    the public policy challenges facing Armenia and the Armenian people in the
    post-Soviet world. It also functions as a catalyst for creative, strategic
    thinking and a wider understanding of the new global environment.

    The mission of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide
    Studies is to educate undergraduate and graduate students about genocide and
    the Holocaust; to host a lecture series, free of charge and open to the
    public; to use scholarship to address current problems stemming from the
    murderous past; and to participate in the public discussion about a host of
    issues ranging from the significance of state-sponsored denial of the
    Armenian genocide and well-funded denial of the Holocaust to intervention in
    and prevention of genocidal situations today.

    Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research
    university with 2,000 undergraduate and 800 graduate students. Since its
    founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United States,
    Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the
    International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and
    Genocide Studies and the accelerated BA/MA programs with the fifth year
    tuition-free for eligible students. The University is featured in Loren Pope's
    book, "Colleges That Change Lives."

    -www.clarku.edu-
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