FRESNO, CA - Dr. Richard Hovannisian, Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies at Fresno State for the Fall 2000 semester, and Holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History at UCLA, will address the topic of "Historical Memory and Armenian Foreign Affairs," at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, December 5, in the Alice Peters Auditorium of the University Business Center on the Fresno State campus.

The lecture is the third in a series on "The Armenian Genocide and Its Denial," which is part of the First Annual Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Lectures in Armenian Studies.

Dr. Richard Hovannisian was born and reared in Tulare, California, and received his B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, and Ph.D. in history from UCLA. A member of the UCLA faculty since 1962, he has organized both the undergraduate and graduate programs in Armenian history at the university and has guided a number of students to the Ph.D. degree and an active academic career. He served as the Associate Director of UCLA's Center for Near Eastern Studies from 1978 to 1995.

Dr. Hovannisian is author of Armenia on the Road to Independence (1976), and the four-volume comprehensive study titled The Republic of Armenia (1971-1996). He has edited and contributed to The Armenian Image in History and Literature (1981); The Armenian Genocide in Perspective (1986); The Armenian Genocide: History, Politics, Ethics (1992); Remembrance and Denial: The Case of The Armenian Genocide (1998); and Enlightenment and Diaspora: The Armenian and Jewish Cases (1999). In 1997 he contributed three chapters to The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, of which he was editor. He has scholarly articles on Armenian, Caucasian, and Near Eastern history.

Admission to the lecture is free and parking restrictions in Lots A and J will be relaxed for the event. For more information on the Lecture Series, please contact the Armenian Studies Program office at (559) 278-2669.