NAASR Armenian Studies | Richard Hovannisian | Historic Western Armenia

The Changing Landscape of Historic Western Armenia Reflections on a Journey Into the Past Dr. Richard G. Hovannisian Dr. Hovannisian is the Armenian Educational Foundation Professor of Modern Armenian History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of the four-volume history The Republic of Armenia, Armenia on the Road to Independence, and has edited and contributed to more than twenty books including The Armenian Image in History and Literature, The Armenian Genocide in Perspective, The Armenian Genocide: History, Politics, Ethics, The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, Remembrance and Denial, Looking Backward, Moving Forward, and six volumes on historic Armenian cities and provinces. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia in 1990. The landscape of Historic Western Armenia is ever changing. The mystical names of the villages, towns, and provinces of a now-vanished generation remain deeply embedded in the minds and hearts of many descendants. But how similar are the imagined homeland and the existing landscape? After many years of hesitation, Dr. Hovannisian set out on a quest to reconcile the "imagined" with the "real." His travels took him through a part of the historic provinces from Trebizond on the Black Sea to Baiburt, Erzerum, Kemakh, Agn, Kharpert, Dersim, Palu, Mush, Bitlis, and Van. In 2009, Hovannisian returned to Historic Armenia as the leader of a NAASR Armenian Heritage Tour. May 8, 2009 Church of the Holy Translators 38 Franklin Street Framingham, MA Presented by: Armenian Church of the Holy Translator Armenian Assembly of America National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)