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  • Editor of Raphael Lemkin Autobiography to Speak at NAASR September 1

    PRESS RELEASE
    National Association for Armenian
    Studies and Research (NAASR)
    395 Concord Avenue
    Belmont, MA 02478
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Tel.: 617-489-1610

    DONNA-LEE FRIEZE, EDITOR OF LEMKIN
    AUTOBIOGRAPHY, TO SPEAK AT NAASR

    Dr. Donna-Lee Frieze, genocide scholar and editor of the newly
    published autobiography of Raphael Lemkin, will give a lecture
    entitled "Raphael Lemkin: The Armenian Genocide and the Autobiography
    of the 'Insistent Prophet,'" on Thursday, September 19, 2013, at 7:30
    p.m. at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
    (NAASR), 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont, MA.
    The lecture will be co-sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves of
    Brookline, MA, and NAASR.
    When Raphael Lemkin collapsed at a bus stop on 42nd Street
    in New York City on August 29, 1959, he had either just visited the
    Curtis Brown Publishing Agency on Madison Avenue or was on his way
    there to discuss his autobiography, Totally Unofficial. He left
    behind a near complete autobiography, which was eventually donated to
    the New York Public Library twenty-three years after Lemkin's death,
    in August 1982, by Alexander Gabriel from the Transradio News Agency,
    U.N. Bureau.
    In June 2013, Yale University Press published Totally
    Unofficial, in which Lemkin highlights the Armenian genocide in order
    to articulate his conceptual understanding of the meaning of genocide.
    Lemkin's autobiography clearly underscores the lawyer's detailed
    analysis of the crime. It is argued that the events of 1915 provided
    the framework for Lemkin's understanding of genocide as a crime of
    intended group destruction, and not necessarily as mass killing. The
    long-awaited publication of Lemkin's autobiography is a watershed
    event in the ongoing reassessment of his seminal work on genocide.
    Donna-Lee Frieze is a Prins Senior Fellow at the Center for Jewish
    History in New York City and a Visiting Fellow at the Alfred Deakin
    Research Institute in Melbourne. She taught a graduate unit,
    Genocide, for over 10 years at Deakin University, Melbourne, and has
    published widely on the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust and the
    Bosnian genocides in relation to testimony, film and philosophy. She
    is the editor and transcriber of Raphael Lemkin's autobiography
    Totally Unofficial (Yale University Press) and the first
    vice-president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
    The NAASR Bookstore will open at 7:00 p.m. the night of the lecture.
    Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin will be
    available for purchase the night of the lecture.
    More information about this program may be had by calling
    617-489-1610, faxing 617-484-1759, e-mailing [email protected], or writing
    to NAASR, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA 02478.

    Belmont, MA
    September 2, 2013

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