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Media Advisory
| January 31, 2006
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Contact: Melanie Austria Farmer
Phone:
(718) 862-7232
E-mail: Public Relations |
Manhattan College Welcomes Peter Balakian, Expert Commentator On The Armenian Genocide
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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR PETER BALAKIAN will deliver the lecture The Armenian Genocide of 1915 and America’s Response. The discussion will be based on Balakian’s book, The Burning Tigris, a groundbreaking history on the Armenian Genocide.
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WHEN: |
Thursday, February 9, 2006
7:30 p.m.
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WHERE: |
Manhattan College
Smith Auditorium
Riverdale, N.Y. (W. 242nd Street near Broadway)
MTA Subway 1 to 242nd Street
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WHY: |
Balakian, who is professor of English and chair of the humanities department at Colgate University, is an expert commentator on the Armenian genocide and its enduring legacy. He is the author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, June-tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974-2000 and Black Dog of Fate. Balakian was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and an Ellis Island Medal of Honor. |
WHO: |
This program is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by the College’s Holocaust Resource Center. |
CONTACT: |
If you are a member of the press who would like to cover this event, please call Melanie Farmer at (718) 862-7232 or e-mail melanie.farmer@manhattan.edu. To find out more about the speaker or the lecture, please call Jeff Horn at (718) 862-7129 or e-mail jeff.horn@manhattan.edu |
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