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Lecture Series

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The first speaker in the Fall Lecture Series of the Armenian Studies Program will be Donald Apcarian of Berkeley, who will detail his recently completed translation of Armenian writer Raffi's "The Fool."

Set at the time of the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78, "The Fool" provides invaluable glimpses into social conditions in western Armenia at the time. It portrays the development of an Armenian civil rights movement in Ottoman Turkey.

Apcarian was born in Fresno, and his earliest cultural influences flowed from the rich life of the Armenian immigrant community of Fresno: the language, the church, the festivities and the transmission of national memory.

The lecture will be at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, in the Alice Peters Auditorium, University Business Center.

Copies of "The Fool" will be available for purchase after the lecture.

The talk is co-sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program and Armenian Students Organization of Fresno State and is free and open to the public. Parking restrictions are relaxed on lots A and J after 7 p.m. For more information, please contact the Armenian Studies Program at ext. 8-2669.

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