GROONG's Calendar of events

GROONG's Calendar of events
(All times local to events)

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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: "Remembrance and Denial: The Armenian Genocide"
Lecture by Dr. Richard Hovannisian, UCLA
When: Oct 8 2000 7pm
Where: First Congregational Church, 2131 N. Van NEss, Fresno
Misc:
Online Contact: barlowd@csufresno.edu
Tel: 559-278-2669
Web: http://www.csufresno.edu/ArmenianStudies

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What: "Can Genocide be Stopped?"
Lecture by Prof. Israel Charney, Hebrew University
When: Oct 10 2000 4pm
Where: Salomon 003, Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Misc: Organized by the Program in Judaic Studies Brown University.
Prof. Charny is Executive Director of the Institute on the
Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem as well as Professor of
Psychology and Family Therapy at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
Co-sponsors: Watson Institute and History Dept.
Online Contact: gregan@ids.net
Tel: 401-454-8736

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What: "Nagorno Karabagh in the Summer of 1999 Impressions of
an OSCE Field Assistant" with Dr. Dittmar Schorkowitz
Associate Professor at the Freie Universitaet Berlin
When: Oct 10 2000 7:30pm
Where: Landesvertretung des Freistaats
Thueringen, Mohrenstr. 64, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Misc: Free. Organized by the German-Armenian Society.
Online Contact: Dr. Raffi Kantian
Tel: ﮏ511 - 62 47 53
Web: http://www.DAG-Online.de/

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What: "Ethnic Conflict Resolution in the FSU" Luncheon & Lecture
Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh, U.S. Negotiator for Karabakh
Jonathan Henick, Advisor to the U.S. Special Negotiator
When: Oct 11 2000 12pm
Where: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
David Adamany Undergraduate Library
Community Room, 3rd Floor
Misc: Organized by The Center for Peace & Conflict Studies at Wayne
State University & The Detroit Council for World Affairs.
Small fee. RSVP required.
Amb. Carey Cavanaugh is U.S. Special Negotiator for
Nagorno-Karabakh & NIS Regional Conflicts, and U.S. Co-chair
of the O.S.C.E. Minsk Process &
Jonathan Henick is Advisor to the U.S. Special Negotiator
& NIS Regional Conflicts, Career Foreign Service Officer,
U.S. Department of State
Online Contact: Detroit Council for World Affairs
Tel: (313) 577-3453
Fax: (313) 577-8269

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What: Dr. Israel Charny Speaks in Detroit
When: Oct 12 2000 7:30pm
Where: AGBU Alex Manoogian school on the campus of
St. John's Armenian Church
22001 Northwestern Highway, Southfield, MI.
Note: U-Michigan-Dearborn is at 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn.
Misc: Dr. Charny will also speak earlier at U. Michigan, Dearborn
in Dr. Papazian's history class.
Online Contact: Dr. Dennis R. Papazian
Tel: 313-593-5181
Web: http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/armenian/

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What: "The Many Faces of Genocide Denial:
the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide"
Dr. Israel Charney speaks at UCLA
When: Oct 15 2000 4pm-6pm
Where: Dickson Auditorium, UCLA
Parking: Lot 3. Free Admission.
Online Contact: taleent@aol.com
Tel: 310-824-0997

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What: "Academics who Deny the Armenian Genocide and Holocaust"
Dr. Israel Charny Exec Dir of the Institute on Holocaust
and Genocide, Jerusalem
When: Oct 16 2000 7:30pm
Where: Alice Peters Auditorium-CSU Fresno
Misc: Sponsored by the Armenian Studies PRogram at CSU Fresno
Online Contact: barlowd@csufresno.edu
Tel: 559-278-2669
Web: http://www.csufresno.edu/ArmenianStudies

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What: "The Facts of Fiction: History vs. the Imagination
in Holocaust Writing" by Dr. Berel Lang
When: Oct 18 2000 8pm
Where: Rittenberg Lounge, Mather Hall,
300 Summit St., Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
Misc: Dr. Berel Lang, is professor of Humanities, Trinity College.
This is a Blanchard William Means Memorial Lecture at the
Department of Philosophy at Trinity College.
Tel: Events Information 297-2001

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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 Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century,"
When: Oct 22 2000 2pm
Where: Rust Library, 380 Old Waterford Rd., Leesburg, VA.
Misc: Free admission. A six-part film and discussion series on
industrialism, socialism, radicalism, women's rights, the
suffrage movement, the Armenian genocide of 1915 and
Adolf Hitler.
Tel: 703-777-0323 or 703-777-0689 TTY

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What: Literary Event - Presentation - Book Launch
When: Oct 27 2000 8:30pm
Where: Sourp Hagop Armenian School, Pasdermajian Hall
Pasdermadjian Hall, 3400 Nadon, Montreal, Canada
Misc: Dora Sakayan's "Modern Western Armenian for English Speakers"
Free admission. Organized by The literary committee of
Hamazkayin Educational and Cultural Society Sanahin Chapter.
Online Contact: Dr. Sima Aprahamian
Tel: (514) 337-7753

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What: Armenian Discussion Group
When: Oct 28 2000 3pm
Where: Conference room, Glendale Public
Library, 222 Harvard ST., Glendale
Misc: An open informal forum for discussing any political and
social issue of relating to Armenians.
Online Contact: armenianjournalclub@yahoo.com

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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
ČA.4 410001/3; Fax ČA.4 410002; Cell: ČA.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/