Dr. Svazlian Lecture June 13, 7:30 pm

The Armenian Cultural Association of Ottawa
presents

Dr. Prof. Verjine Svazlian Lecture
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm, Monday 13 June, 2005
(lecture duration 45 min)
University of Ottawa
Room 219 Lamoureux (map below)

Dr. Professor Verjine Svazlian

THE MEMORY OF SURVIVORS AS IRREFUTABLE HISTORIC TESTIMOMY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
(Lecture is in French, questions can be asked in English or Armenian)

Dr. Prof. Verjine Svazlian is a Leading Researcher at the Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide, Institute of Archaeology & Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia.

Beginning from 1955, she has written down (also tape-recorded and video-recorded) and studied, during 50 years, the various relics of the oral tradition, as well as documental testimonies and historical songs (in Armenian and Turkish languages) of the eyewitness survivors of the Armenian Genocide, who were deported from over 100 localities of Historical Armenia, Cilicia and Anatolia, and were settled in Armenia and in the Diaspora (Greece, France, Italy, Germany, USA, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, the Balkan countries, Turkey). Thus she saved from the total loss the collective historical memory of the Armenian nation with a view to present it to the world in various languages (in English, French, German, Turkish, Russian, Armenian, etc.). She authored twentyone scientific books published in the Motherland and in the Diaspora.

On the 24th of April, 2003, she was granted the Fridtjof Nansen’s Memorial Medal for the scientific and public activity directed toward the Armenian Genocide and establishment of philanthropic principles. In April, 2004, she was awarded the title of Professor of the Armenological Academy “Ararat” in Paris.

University of Ottawa Lamoureux building Room 219