Quand la démocratie mourut : Eskijian Museum

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Peter Balakian :

Pulitzer Prize winning poet and author Peter Balakian will discuss how he has worked through filaments of Armenian history to create an inventive body of literature. He will explore how his work has moved across generations in his writing both poetry and memoir about the Armenian Genocide. How can a past historical event be transformed by the linguistic frequencies of literary imagination in the American present? Balakian will discuss how various family figures and ancestors have provided a grounding for his work; his great-great uncle, Krikoris Balakian (Bishop in the Armenian Church), was one of the 250 cultural leaders arrested on April 25, 1915 at the onset of the Genocide, and his grandmother Nafina Aroosian, who was a Genocide survivor along with her two young daughters, endured a harrowing death march into the Syrian desert. I

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THE ARARAT-ESKIJIAN MUSEUM AND RESEARCH CENTER (AEMRC), THE NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION FOR ARMENIAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH (NAASR), THE PROMISE
ARMENIAN INSTITUTE AT UCLA, AND THE ARMENIAN STUDIES PROGRAM AT

CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE (CSUN)
PRESENT A HYBRID EVENT

Bone Memory: Armenian
Pilgrimages to the Killing
Fields of Dayr al-Zur

By

Dr. Elyse Semerdjian
Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and
Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian
Genocide Studies, Clark University

For more information call the Ararat-Eskijian Museum at 747-500-7584

or e-mail Eskijian@ararat-eskijian-museum.com

Photo: Dayr al-Zur (Der Zor) memorial, destroyed in 2014,