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    DR. PEROOMIAN TO SIGN HER LATEST BOOK IN GLENDALE
    Dr. Rubina Peroomian

    Asbarez
    Tuesday, June 19th, 2012

    GLENDALE-A book signing event with Dr. Rubina Peroomian the author of
    The Armenian Genocide in Literature: Perceptions of Those who lived
    Through the Years of Calamity, on Thursday, June 28 at 7:30 p.m. at
    the Glendale Central Library Auditorium, 222 East Harvard Street. The
    lecture is in English. Admission is free and the seating is limited.

    Library visitors receive 3 hours FREE parking across the street at
    The Market Place parking structure with validation at the Loan Desk.

    Dr. Peroomian holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
    from UCLA. She has taught Armenian studies courses, lectured widely,
    participated in international symposia, and contributed chapters to
    scholarly volumes. Her earlier publications include Literary Responses
    to Catastrophe, A Comparison of the Armenian and the Jewish Experience
    (1993), Hayastane HoHeDa-Bolshevik Haraberutiunneri Volortum, 1917-1921
    (1997), And Those who Continued Living in Turkey after 1915 (2008),
    and a series of high school textbooks on the Armenian Question (Hay
    Tahd), as well as an online guidebook for teaching the Armenian
    Genocide to Armenian students grades 1-9.

    The Armenian Genocide in Literature: Perceptions of Those who lived
    Through the Years of Calamity, published in 2012 by the Armenian
    Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan, addresses the responses of the
    first generation survivor-writers reflecting the depth of the initial
    psychological shock and the soul-consuming struggle in dispersion; the
    responses of the orphan generation in their complexity and diversity
    and departure from the literary traditions of the past; and memoirs,
    personal stories of aging survivors. The book reveals the inner psyche
    of the survivors of a colossal collective catastrophe symptomized
    by withdrawal, isolation, anger, protest, wistful yearnings, and
    the collapse of moral and social order. The denial of the crime and
    distortion of history by the perpetrators add to the dilemma and
    hinders the process of healing to begin.

    Gia Aivazian, Friends of UCLA Language and Culture Studies board
    member and a longtime friend of Dr. Peroomian, will speak about her
    friend and her scholarship and Professor Peter Cowe, holder of the
    UCLA Narekatsi Chair for Armenian Studies, will present the new book
    and invite Dr. Peroomian for her remarks.

    The program is sponsored by The UCLA Narekatsi Chair in Armenian
    Studies in cooperation with Friends of UCLA Armenian Language and
    Culture Studies & Abril Bookstore.


    From: Baghdasarian
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