The Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project invites the college community to attend its 9th annual Voices of Vigilance program featuring poet and author Peter Balakian. This is HGHRP's first commemoration of the Armenian genocide, which is widely considered to the be the first of the 20th century.
9th Annual Voices of Vigilance Program
7 pm
Tuesday, March 2, 2015
Warshof Conference Center, Flynn Campus Center (Monroe A/B)
Tickets are free for MC students, faculty and staff; $7 general public; available at www.monroecctickets.com
About our keynote speaker:
Dr. Peter Balakian is a renowned Armenian-American poet, author, and activist. Born into an Armenian-American family, Dr. Balakian earned a doctorate in American Civilization at Brown University and is currently the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of Humanities at Colgate University. He has published extensively on the Armenian genocide, its professional and personal aftermath, and the consequences of the U.S. government’s failure to formally identify the actions taken by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian people in 1915 as a genocide. His books include The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, which received the 2005 Raphael Lemkin Award for the best book in English on genocide and human rights, and Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir. He co-created the poetry magazine Graham House Review and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, the Daniel Varukan Prize from the New England Poetry Club, and Armenia’s highest cultural award, the Movses Khorenatsi Medal.
Please extend an invitation to your students to attend our commemoration.
Holocaust, Genocide
and Human Rights Project
03/02/2015 |