The Armenian Genocide and America's First International Human Rights Movement
Peter Balakian, the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities and a professor of English at Colgate University, is the author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response (Perennial, 2004), concerning the Ottoman Turk government's murder of more than one million Armenians in 1915. He is also the author of Black Dog of Fate (Broadway, 1997), a memoir about the effect of the genocide on earlier generations of his family. The book earned him the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for an author's first non-fiction book. In this lecture Balakian emphasizes the importance of placing the genocide—which he classifies as the first such atrocity to take place in the modern era—within American consciousness.
Presenter(s): Peter Balakian
Date: March 31, 2005
Location: McGuinn Hall 121, Boston College
Sponsor(s): Armenian Club of Boston College; American Studies Program; Boston College English Department; Faith, Peace & Justice Program; Boston College English Association
URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/balakian/
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