UPCOMING ASP PUBLIC LECTURES

Thursday, February 25, 4 PM
270 Stephens Hall

“Three Voices from Armenia.”
Panel Discussion with three visiting scholars about the cultural, social, economic, and political situation in Armenia.
Speakers: Prof. Vahram Ter-Matevosyan (Fulbright Scholar); Prof. Gohar Shakhnazaryan (Faculty Development Fellow, Open Society Institute); Prof. Mikayel Zolyan (Faculty Development Fellow, Open Society Institute)
Moderator: Dr. Stephan H. Astourian (Executive Director, Armenian Studies Program, U.C. Berkeley)
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Thursday, March 4, 4 PM
3335 Dwinelle Hall

“American Millennialism and the Middle East in the Era of the World Wars.”
Speaker: Dr. Hans-Lukas Kieser (Kratter Visiting Professor, Stanford University; Privatdozent, University of Zürich)
Respondent: Prof. Daniel Sargent (Department of History, U.C. Berkeley)
Co-sponsored by the Department of History.

Saturday, March 6, 4-6 PM
370/371 Dwinelle Hall

Public Session of the Seventh Workshop in Armenian-Turkish Scholarship.
This is a two-day international conference on the Armenian Genocide in a comparative perspective focusing on the following theme:
“From Empire to Nation: The Ottoman Case in Comparative Perspective.”
Twenty scholars will be participating in this workshop. The public session will sum up the main issues and debates of the conference.
Speakers: Prof. Müge Göçek (University of Michigan); Prof. Jirair Libaridian (University of Michigan); and Prof. Ronald G. Suny (University of Michigan)
Chair: Prof. Stephan H. Astourian (Executive Director, Armenian Studies Program)
Co-sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program of the University of Michigan.

Driving Directions: to campus http://visitors.berkeley.edu/gethere/traveling.shtml
Public Parking Information: http://pt.berkeley.edu/park
Campus Map (Dwinelle C5) http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/campusmap.pdf

WINTER 2010 SUNDAY SALONS AT THE ALUMNI HOUSE

Join us for wine, cheese, and the following talks:

February 21, 2 pm
"Anti-Armenian propaganda of Azerbaijan: The case of Ivanyan (former Khojalu)”

Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, PhD
UC Berkeley Fullbright Scholar; Deputy Head of the Strategic Research Analysis Center at the Armenian Ministry of Defense; and Director of the Institute of National Security Studies.

*Co-sponsored by the Armenian Professional Society

March 7, 2pm
“The Life and Art of Sumbat”

Book Reading & Signing by Armen Der Kiureghian, PhD

Armen Der Kiureghian, professor of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, has published a book about the life and work of his father, Sumbat Der Kiureghian, renowned Iranian-Armenian watercolorist...for more from the Press Release, click here .

Read an article about the book from the Armenian Reporter, click here .

*Copies of the book, "The Life and Art of Sumbat", will be for sale for CASH OR CHECK ONLY at this event. A portion of the proceeds from book sales will benefit the UCBAA.

Alumni House, UC Berkeley Campus (http://berkeley.edu/map/maps/DE34.html)
Free Admission

PREVIOUS EVENTS

Professor Stephan Astourian Public Lecture

12 Noon
November 4, 2009
223 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley Campus

THE ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS - FROM THE DOCUMENTS TO THE CONTEXT

Stephan H. Astourian, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Armenian Studies Program
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley

Sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program; the Institute for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, U.C. Berkeley.

Tom Mooradian Public Lecture

Monday, October 19, 2009 at 6:30 pm
223 Dwinelle, UC Berkeley Campus

THE REPATRIATES - PAWNS IN THE DEADLY COLD WAR
Tom Mooradian
Author of "The Repatriate: Love, Basketball, and the KGB"

Sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program, UC Berkeley; and the Institute for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UC Berkeley.
For more information, please call (510) 643-5844.

Michael Bobelian Public Lecture

Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 6:30 pm
223 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley Campus

"The Struggle for Armenian Genocide Recognition in the U.S" (followed by book reading)
Michael Bobelian, J.D. (Univ. of Michigan), Journalism M.S. (Columbia University), and Author of "Children of Armenia: A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-Long Struggle for Justice"

Sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program; U.C. Berkeley Armenian Alumni;
the Institute of International Studies; and the Institute for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
For more information, please call (510) 643-5844.

Armenian Students Association Genocide Awareness Week

April 19-24th, 2009

Sunday April 19, 7 pm
Candelight Vigil, Memorial Glade

Monday April 20, 7 pm
Genocide Awareness Poetry Slam, 101 Wurster Hall

Tuesday April 21, 7 pm
"The Genocide Recognition Process: How Societies Confront Trauma in the Aftermath of Genocide."
-Dr. Darren Zook, UC Berkeley
-Dr. Matthew A. Jendian, CSU Fresno
109 Dwinelle Hall

Wednesday, April 22, 7 pm
"Nature, History, Prevention and Denial of the Armenian Genocide."
-Dr. Roger Smith, Professor Emeritus of Government at the College of William and Mary, Chairman of the Zoryan Institute and founder of the International Association of Genocide Scholars
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler

Thursday April 23, 7 pm
Movie Screening: "The Lark Farm (La Masseria delle Allodole)"
Italian film chronicling the plight of an Armenian family during the Armenian Genocide
221 Wheeler

Friday April 24, 12 pm
United Hands Across Cal, Upper Sproul Steps

View the flyer on the ASA Website: http://www.berkeleyasa.com

2nd Annual ASP Benefit Gala

Saturday, March 29, 2008, 5:30 pm
The Olympic Club on Skyline Boulevard in Daly City, California

THANK YOU TO ALL WHO ATTENDED THE 2008 GALA!

To view an album of photos from the night, click here .

To read the post-Gala Press Release, click here .