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GROONG's Calendar of events
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What: "Great Need over the Water" Lecture by Stina Katchadourian
When: Sep 21 2000 8pm
Where: Armenian Prelacy, 138 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016
Misc: Admission is free Book Signing Refreshments
Organized by The Armenian Prelacy Bookstore
Online Contact: prelacy@mindspring.com
Tel: (212) 689-7810
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What: Celebration of 9th Anniversary of Armenia's Independence
When: Sep 23 2000 8pm
Where: Armenian Community Centre,
45 Hallcrown Place, Wilowdale, [Toronto,] Canada
Misc: Under the Auspices of The Embassy of Armenia in Canada
Cultural Program, Free Admission.
Online Contact: Embassy of Armenia in Canada
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What: Celebration of 9th Anniversary of Armenia's Independence
When: Sep 24 2000 7pm
Where: AGBU Armen-Quebec School
755 Rue Manoogian, St-Laurent, [Montreak,] Canada
Misc: Under the Auspices of The Embassy of Armenia in Canada
Cultural Program, Free Admission.
Online Contact: Embassy of Armenia in Canada
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What: Prospects for Regional and Transregional Cooperation
and the Resolution of Conflicts
Conference in Yerevan organized by ACNIS
When: Sep 26 2000 9am
Sep 26-28
Where: Government House, 47 Mashtots Boulevard Yerevan, Armenia
Misc: Organized by The Armenian Center for National and International
Studies (ACNIS) With the Support of the OSCE In Coordination
with the The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of
Defense, and the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament.
Online Contact: ACNIS
Tel: (3741) 52.87.80 / 58.08.77 Fax: (3741) 52.48.46 / 15.18.01
Web: http://www.acnis.am/
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What: "Armenian Tales and Folklore: Identity in Oral Tradition"
with Dr. Vergine Gulbenkian
When: Sep 27 2000 7:30pm
Where: Gulbenkian Hall, Iverna Gardens, London W8
Misc: AGBU London "Living in Diaspora" Event
Online Contact: Dr. Susan Pattie
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What: "The American Response to the Armenian Genocide"
All-Day Symposium
When: Sep 28 2000 9am-5:30pm
Where: Mumford Room, Sixth Floor Of The Madison Building
Library of Congress
Misc: Sponsored by the Library's Office of Scholarly Programs and
The Armenian National Institute in cooperation with
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Dr. Jay Winter, Professor at Cambridge University,
introductory talk on "Under Cover of War: The Armenian
Genocide."
Panel discussion during the day will cover "The U.S.
Government Response," "Media, Information and Awareness,"
"Public Response" and "The Outcomes."
A display of Armenian materials drawn from the Library's
collections will be on view that day outside the Mumford Room.
Online Contact: Levon Avdoyan
Tel: (202) 707-3302
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What: Armenian Discussion Group
When: Sep 30 2000 3-6pm
Where: Conference room, Glendale Public Library
222 Louise Street, Glendale, CA
Misc: An open forum for discussion of anything
Armenian and related to Armenians
Online Contact: armenianjournalclub@yahoo.com
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What: Literary Asbarez Meeting 28th
When: Oct 5 2000 7-9pm
Where: Glendale Public Library Auditorium,
222 East Harvard St, Glendale, CA 91205
Misc: Novelist Raymond Poqos Kupelian reads passages from his
recent novel "PASSPORT". Literary critic Stephan Thopchian
presents a literary evaluation. Q & A.
Poet Grish Davtian chair. Free and Open to public.
Sponsored by Asbarez Newspaper & Glendale Public Library.
Online Contact: Grish Davtian
Tel: (818) 500-9363
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What: "ANY QUESTIONS? Armenia and Diaspora: Working Together?"
Panel Discussion
When: Oct 5 2000 7:30pm
Where: Faulkner Hall, Maria Assumpta Centre,
23 Kensington Square, London W8
Misc: AGBU London "Living in Diaspora" Event
Panelists discuss the realities of working with Armenia, and,
as a point of comparison, the Ukraine.
Bedo Eghiayan, London-based pharmacist
Hratch Tchilingirian, a PhD candidate in Sociology, LSE
Roman Zyla, a PhD candidate in Social Science, UCL
Online Contact: Dr. Susan Pattie
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What: "New Visions, New Horizons" Third International Conference
of the Armenian International Women's Association
When: Oct 8 2000 to-Oct-11
Where: Yerevan, Armenia
Misc: All details at the website.
Online Contact: Hermine
Tel: (617) 926-0171
Web: http://www.aiwa-net.org/conference.htm
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What: Cilician Armenia Conference at UCLA
When: Oct 20 2000 9:30am-6pm
Oct 21 2000 9:30am-6pm
Where: Schoernberg Auditorium, UCLA on Oct. 20.
Dickson Auditorium, UCLA on Oct. 21.
Misc: Free, but limited seating. First come basis.
Sponsored by UCLA's AEF Chair in Armenian History, cosponsors
Western Prelacy, Carolan Fund, UCLA's division of Social
Modern & Contemporary Sciences.
Opening remarks by Prof. Hovannisian, UCLA Chancellor
Albert Carnesale, and His Holiness Aram I.
Morning sessions features history of the Cilician Armenian
principality and kingdom & relations between the Armenian
Church and the Western churches. Speakers: Azat Bozoyan
(Armenia), Gerard Dedeyan and Claude Mutafian (France),
Peter Halfter (Germany), and Robert Hewsen, Abraham Terian,
and Peter Cowe (USA).
Friday afternoon includes historic, literary, and
linguistic themes with Victoria Rowe (Canada), and
James Russell, Dickran Kouymjian, Rubina Peroomian,
David Calonne, and Bert Vaux (USA).
Saturday, morning sessions highlight Armenian Art,
Architecture, and Manuscripts with Levon Chookaszian,
David Kertmenjian, and Stella Vardanian (Armenia),
Bernard Coulie (Belgium), and Christina Maranci and
Scott Redford (USA). Afternoon sessions concentrate on
the modern period of Cilician Armenia from the
massacres of 1909 and the Genocide of 1915 to
repatriation of the survivors after World War I, their
final exodus in the 1920s, and the reestablishment of
Catholicosate of Cilicia in Lebanon, with Raymond
Kevorkian and Vahe Tachjian (France), Hilmar Kaiser
(Italy), and Garabet Moumdjian, Vahram Shemmassian,
and Simon Payaslian (USA). The conference will
conclude with a retrospective by Professor Hovannisian
and an appreciation by His Holiness Aram.
Online Contact: Prof. Richard Hovannisian
Tel: (310) 825-3375
Web: UCLA Parking & other information maps at:
http://www.ucla.edu/map/
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What: "The Creation in Armenian Biblical Commentary"
Rev. Father Shahan Sarkissian
(Dean of Seminary, the Catholicosate of Cilicia)
When: Nov 9 2000 7:30pm
Where: Haigazian University auditorium, Kantari, Beirut
Misc: Free admission. Part of lecture series dedicated to the 1700th
anniversary of the proclamation of christianity as the
official religion in Armenia.
Online Contact: Ara Sanjian
Web: http://www.haigazian.edu.lb/
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What: 100th Anniversary of the Hairenik Newspaper
Cultural and Literary Program
When: Dec 3 2000 2pm
Where: Armenian Cultural and Educational Center
47 Nichols Avenue, Watertown, Massachusetts
Online Contact: hairenik@compuserve.com
Tel: 617-926-3974
Web: http://www.hairenik.org
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What: "The Hymns as a Condensed Expression of Armenian Culture"
Krikor Shahinian (K. Kaloustian Centre of Pedagogy, Antelias)
When: Jan 11 2001 7:30pm
Where: Haigazian University auditorium, Kantari, Beirut
Misc: Free admission. Part of lecture series dedicated to the 1700th
anniversary of the proclamation of christianity as the
official religion in Armenia.
Online Contact: Ara Sanjian
Web: http://www.haigazian.edu.lb/
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What: "St. Nerses Shnorhali: Pioneer of the Ecumenical Movement"
Archbishop Bedros Miryati (Primate of Arm. Catholics in Aleppo)
When: Mar 15 2001 7:30pm
Where: Haigazian University auditorium, Kantari, Beirut
Misc: Free admission. Part of lecture series dedicated to the 1700th
anniversary of the proclamation of christianity as the
official religion in Armenia.
Online Contact: Ara Sanjian
Web: http://www.haigazian.edu.lb/
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What: "Catholicos Movses III Tatevatsi (1629-1633): The Revival of
the Armenian Church and Culture in Eastern Armenia
in the 17th Century"
Gevorg Ter-Vardanian (Matenadaran, Yerevan)
When: May 10 2001 7:30pm
Where: Haigazian University auditorium, Kantari, Beirut
Misc: Free admission. Part of lecture series dedicated to the 1700th
anniversary of the proclamation of christianity as the
official religion in Armenia.
Online Contact: Ara Sanjian
Web: http://www.haigazian.edu.lb/
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What: International Symposium on Armenian Spirituality
When: Jun 25 2001 9am
Last until Jul 1 2001
Where: Ecumenical Institute, Chateau de Bossey,
1298 Caligny, Switzerland.
Misc: Occasion: 17th Centenary of the Proclamation of Christianity
in Armenia, by the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia, and the
University of Geneva and the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey.
Online Contact: nareg@inco.com.lb
Tel: Very Rev. Nareg Alemezian, at Antelias, Lebanon
+961.4 410001/3; Fax +961.4 410002; Cell: +961.3 964218
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What: "The Origins and Limits of Armenian Evangelical Ecumenism"
Rev. Paul Haidostian (NEST)
When: Oct 18 2001 7:30pm
Where: Haigazian University auditorium, Kantari, Beirut
Misc: Free admission. Part of lecture series dedicated to the 1700th
anniversary of the proclamation of christianity as the
official religion in Armenia.
Online Contact: Ara Sanjian
Web: http://www.haigazian.edu.lb/
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What: "Restricted Revival: The Armenian Church in the
Soviet Union (1941-87)"
Felix Corley (writer on the post-Soviet republics with a
special interest in the Caucasus and religion, London)
When: Dec 13 2001 7:30pm
Where: Haigazian University auditorium, Kantari, Beirut
Misc: Free admission. Part of lecture series dedicated to the 1700th
anniversary of the proclamation of christianity as the
official religion in Armenia.
Online Contact: Ara Sanjian
Web: http://www.haigazian.edu.lb/
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