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UCLA Armenian Graduate Students Association
c/o Armenian Graduate Students Association
Kerckhoff Hall, Room 316
308 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Tel: 310-206-8512
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/~agsa/
Speaker Series: Dr. Gregory E. Areshian
Thursday, May 7th at 7:00pm
Sequoia Room at the UCLA Faculty Center
Co-sponsored by The Friends of UCLA Armenian Language and Culture Studies,
the presentation will be given in English and will treat the subject `New
Approaches to the Study of Ancient and Medieval Armenia'. The speaker, Dr.
Gregory Areshian, received his Ph.D. from the Saint-Petersburg (formerly
Leningrad) Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
and has excavated at several archaeological sites in Armenia and Syria,
while participating in other archaeological field projects in Georgia,
Egypt, and Turkmenistan. The author of more than 130 publications mainly
concerning Armenian, Caucasian, and Near Eastern history, archaeology, and
social theory from Late Prehistory to Modern times, he has written and
edited four books. During the late 1970s and 1980s Dr. Areshian successively
held the positions of professor of Archaeology and History at Yerevan State
University, First Vice-President of the Department of Antiquities of the
Republic of Armenia, and Associate Director of the Institute of Archaeology
and Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences. Thereafter he served as Deputy
Prime Minister in the first government of the independent Republic of
Armenia (1991-92). The following year he was invited to UCLA as a visiting
professor, and, after settling in the USA, he taught at the University of
Wisconsin, and the University of Chicago. Parking is available at Parking
Structure 2 at Hilgard and Westholme. All are welcome.
Light appetizers and refreshments will be provided.
UCLA Armenian Graduate Students Association
c/o Armenian Graduate Students Association
Kerckhoff Hall, Room 316
308 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Tel: 310-206-8512
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://gsa.asucla.ucla.edu/~agsa/
Speaker Series: Dr. Gregory E. Areshian
Thursday, May 7th at 7:00pm
Sequoia Room at the UCLA Faculty Center
Co-sponsored by The Friends of UCLA Armenian Language and Culture Studies,
the presentation will be given in English and will treat the subject `New
Approaches to the Study of Ancient and Medieval Armenia'. The speaker, Dr.
Gregory Areshian, received his Ph.D. from the Saint-Petersburg (formerly
Leningrad) Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR
and has excavated at several archaeological sites in Armenia and Syria,
while participating in other archaeological field projects in Georgia,
Egypt, and Turkmenistan. The author of more than 130 publications mainly
concerning Armenian, Caucasian, and Near Eastern history, archaeology, and
social theory from Late Prehistory to Modern times, he has written and
edited four books. During the late 1970s and 1980s Dr. Areshian successively
held the positions of professor of Archaeology and History at Yerevan State
University, First Vice-President of the Department of Antiquities of the
Republic of Armenia, and Associate Director of the Institute of Archaeology
and Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences. Thereafter he served as Deputy
Prime Minister in the first government of the independent Republic of
Armenia (1991-92). The following year he was invited to UCLA as a visiting
professor, and, after settling in the USA, he taught at the University of
Wisconsin, and the University of Chicago. Parking is available at Parking
Structure 2 at Hilgard and Westholme. All are welcome.
Light appetizers and refreshments will be provided.