GROONG's Calendar of events

(All times local to events)

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What: Armenian Disscusion Group
When: Nov 25 2000 3-6pm
Where: Glendale Central Public Library
Misc: Group members discuss the current affairs and issues
related to Armenian Diaspora and Armenia in general.
Online Contact: armenianjournalclub@yahoo.com

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What: Literary Book reading evening: Introducing Raffi's "The Fool"
When: Nov 25 2000 7-9pm
Where: Hayashen, 105A Mill Hill Road, LONDON W3
(nearest tube: Acton Town)
Misc: Raffi, c. 1835-1888, was considered Armenia's foremost
novelist. Gregory Topalian and Sylvie Keshishian will read
from Donald Abcarian's new English translation.
Sponsored by Gomidas Institute (Princeton, NJ), Taderon
Press (Reading, Berks) and A.G.B.U. (London)
Tel: 609-883-9222 or (0118) 9464196
Online Contact: books@gomidas.org
Web: http://www.gomidas.org/

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What: "Recognition, then What? The Armenian Question in the
Twenty-first Century"
Lecture by Vincent Lima and Ara Sarafian
When: Nov 26 2000 4-6pm
Where: Gulbenkian Hall, Iverna Gardens, Kensington, LONDON W8
(nearest tube: High Street Kensington)
Misc: Vincent Lima and Ara Sarafian are editors of the journal
"Armenian Forum"
Sponsored by Gomidas Institute (Princeton, NJ), Taderon Press
(Reading, Berks), and Committee for the Recognition of the
Armenian Genocide (London).
Online Contact: forum@gomidas.org
Tel: 609-883-9222 or (0118) 9464196
Web: http://www.gomidas.org/

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What: "The Cooperation of the European Union with Armenia"
Ursula Schleicher, MEP, Head of the Delegation for
Relations with South Caucasus Republics of Euro Parliament
When: Nov 28 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: ++49-511 - 62 47 53
Web: http://www.DAG-Online.de/

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What: "History and Power: Politics of the Armenian Genocide"
Talk by Ara Sarafian and Vincent Lima
When: Nov 29 2000 7-9pm
Where: Creese Student Center, Drexel University,
3210 Chestnut St, Philadelphia
Misc: Organized by the ANC of Pennsylvania and the Hellenic Society
of Drexel U. Ara Sarafian is editor of the Gomidas Institute
Armenian Genocide Documentation Series. Vincent Lima is
director of the Gomidas Institute.
Online Contact: Lorig Ayanian
Tel: 609-883-9222
Web: http://www.gomidas.org/

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What: "Oral History, Displacement and Identity:
The Case of Armenians and Palestinians"
Lecture by Dr. Rosemary Sayegh ( Anthropologist)
When: Nov 30 2000 7pm
Where: Haigazian University Auditorium-Haigazian University
Kantari - Beirut - Lebanon
Misc: Organized by the Cultural Hour.
Online Contact: ekarda@haigazian.edu.lb
Tel: 9611 349230 - 9613 286588
Web: http://www.haigazian.edu.lb/

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What: "History and Power: Politics of the Armenian Genocide"
Talk by Ara Sarafian and Vincent Lima
When: Dec 1 2000 7:30-9:30pm
Where: Saint Gregory the Enlightener Armenian Church,
1131 North St., White Plains, New York
Misc: Organized by the Cultural Committee of the church.
Online Contact: books@gomidas.org
Tel: 609-883-9222
Web: http://www.gomidas.org/

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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: "Recognition, then What? The Armenian Question in the
Twenty-first Century," Talk by Vincent Lima and Ara Sarafian
When: Dec 3 2000 1-3pm
Where: Saint Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Church,
8701 Ridge Ave, Philadelphia.
Misc: Organized by the ANC of Pennsylvania.
Online Contact: books@gomidas.org
Tel: 609-883-9222
Web: http://www.gomidas.org/

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What: "Recognition, then What? The Armenian Question in the
Twenty-first Century," Talk by Vincent Lima and Ara Sarafian
When: Dec 4 2000 8-10pm
Where: Sulzberger Parlor, 3d Floor, Barnard Hall,
Columbia University, Broadway at 117th, New York
Misc: Organized by the Columbia University Armenian Club.
Online Contact: books@gomidas.org
Tel: 609-883-9222
Web: http://www.gomidas.org/

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What: Traditional Armenian Music Workshop and Demonstration
With Ara Petrossian, Eleni Kalimopoulou,
Martha Mavroidi, Panagiotis Poulos
When: Dec 4 2000 8pm
Where: Gulbenkian Hall, St. Sarkis Church,
Iverna Gardens, London (Kensington W8)
Misc: Part of the AGBU London Lecture Series.
Online Contact: Sossie Kasbarian
Tel: 020 7837 8888 ext.2226

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What: "Historical Memory and Armenian Foreign Affiars"
Dr. Richard Hovannisian (Kazan Visiting Professor, CSU Fresno)
When: Dec 5 2000 7:30pm
Where: Alice Peters Auditorium, Univ. Business Center, CSU Fresno
Misc: Free and open to the Public. Third in the Kazan Lecture Series.
Online Contact: barlowd@csufresno.edu
Tel: 559-278-2669
Web: http://www.csufresno.edu/ArmenianStudies

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What: 30th Literary Asbarez Poetry Evening
When: Dec 7 2000 7-9pm
Where: Glendale Public Library Auditorium,
222 East Harvard St, Glendale, CA 91205
Misc: Poet Chahe Keuroghelian will read his poems.
Poet Grish Davtian chair. Free and Open to public.
Online Contact: Grish Davtian
Tel: 818-500-9363

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What: The Armenian Genocide at the House of Lords
When: Dec 11 2000 11am-1pm
Where: Moses Room, House of Lords, LONDON
Misc: In 1916 the British Parliament published a detailed account
of the Armenian Genocide, prepared by James Bryce and Arnold
Toynbee. Launch of British World War I Classic - "the Blue
Book" James Bryce and Arnold Toynbee "The Treatment of
Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915-1916: Documents
Presented to Viscount Grey of Falloden by Viscount Bryce
[Uncensored Edition]", edited and with an introduction by Ara
Sarafian. (Gomidas Institute Books, 2000) will be presented at
the House of Lords under the auspices of Lord Eric Avebury,
Vice Chair of the Parliamentary Human Right's Group.
Online Contact: books@gomidas.org
Web: http://www.gomidas.org/

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What: "Out of Stone" Armenia and Artsakh Photography Exhibit
Starts: Oct 2 2000 12pm and Ends:
When: Dec 29 2000 5pm
Noon-5pm daily, 8pm wednesdays.
Where: World Affairs Council of San Francisco,
312 Sutter Street, Suite 200
San Francisco, California (downtown).
Misc: photographs from Armenia and Artsakh features color images
from the years 1995-2000, by photographers Robert Kurkjian
and Matthew Karanian.
Online Contact: maryanne@wacsf.org
Tel: 415-293-4646
Web: http://www.wacsf.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/