SIMA APRAHAMIAN (Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University) has developed a new course, 展omen and Genocide.・/font>
This team-coordinated seminar will examine the terrible legacy of past genocides and related atrocities, particularly in the twentieth century. It will provide a gendered perspective, both historically and culturally, and will demonstrate that victimization in genocidal situations occurs usually as a manifestation and accentuation of traditional prejudices that apply to gender and sex.
She has received a CUPFA Professional Development Grant to present a paper at  the 2000 Congress of the Social Sciences & Humanities, at the University of Alberta.
She has made the following presentations: May 6, 2001: Armenian identity & nationalism, in a session entitled 撤rotest, Myth, and Religion・at the AES Spring meeting; October 13, 2000: 鉄cience, Technology & Women痴 Lives: Reading the Gendered Cyborg・ Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Seminar Series.; May 29, 2000: paper presented at the Congress of the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences, in Edmonton 展omen, Memories and the Armenian Genocide・
She was a member of editorial committee of the 2000 Commemorative art book on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the 1915 genocide of the Armenian people.
She has the following articles in books (Forthcoming) 典he Armenian Revolutionary Federation and a Lebanese Armenian Community・in The Armenian Communities in the Middle East, Editors: Anthony O樽ahony (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), Ara Sanjian (Haigazian University, Beirut), Hratch Tchilingirian (London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London) and (forthcoming) (The article was accepted in  October 2000) 鄭rmenia & Armenian Culture, in Countries and Their Cultures,・ Human Relations Area Files (Ember & Ember). Macmillan Reference, Gale Group. Farmington Hills, MI.
She has published the following articles/literary criticism/ reviews and review articles: 2000 鉄ome reflections on helping,・Hai Sird, (International Journal, Armenian Relief Society) no. 154, pp. 39-41; 2000 Review of Sako Arian 敵anayi harsanike・ poem (In Armenian). Horizon Literary supplement, volume 16, no. 12, p. 16; 2000 Review of Zareh Khrakhouni, 電imaki yedev・(A play) In Armenian) Horizon Literary supplement, volume 16, no. 12, p. 16; 2000 Review  of Anthony A. Tatossian, In the Shadow of the Two World Wars; Montreal, 2000. (In Armenian). Horizon Literary supplement, volume 16, no. 10, (194), p. 11; 2000  Review  of Vehanoush Tekian, Snount ev Antount, Poems, 2000 (In Armenian), Horizon Literary supplement, volume 16, no. 8, (192), p. 16; 2000 Review of Nerses Hadidian, Tzolker ev Shogher, poems, 2000 (In Armenian), Horizon Weekly, (August 21) p. 10; 2000 Review of 徹pen Letter/ Batz Namag numer 19, 1999・ (in Armenian), Horizon Literary supplement, volume 16, no. 6, (190), p. 15; 2000 Review of Souren Danielian, Zareh Khrakhouni: Banasteghdsoutyan Azatagroume, 1999. (Zareh Kherakhouni: The liberation of Poetry) (In Armenian), Horizon Literary supplement, volume 16, no. 6, (190), p. 15.
She organized the following sessions in conferences: May 2001: Co-organizer,  with Dr. Karin Doerr & Dr. Si Transken, 3 part-session, entitled 鼎onnecting Biography and Research: Personal Revelations of Female Academics who deal with the Subject of Violence and Cruelty,・Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, Quebec City and May 29, 2000: Co-organizer, 3-part session entitled 敵enocide Reconsidered,・co-sponsored by CWSA, CSAA, SSS (Edmonton) Congress of the Federation of Humanities & Social Sciences.

MAX BOUDAKIAN (Pittsford, New York) wrote 泥eodatus from Damascus・for the Autumn, 200 issues of Ararat Quarterly.
The article deals with a colorful Armenian from Damascus who established Prague痴 first coffeehouse (1708). Deodatus was noted for circulating controversial pamphlets on contemporary issues. Accusations by Deodatus resulted in a complex lawsuit involving Rabbi David Ben Abraham Oppenheimer, Chief Rabbi of Bohemia, and other members of Prague痴 Jewish community.

GEORGE BOURNOUTIAN (Iona College) was once more voted exemplary teacher and scholar at Iona College.
He gave a lecture in Georgetown on 迭ussia and the Armenian National Resurgence in the 18th Century. He also lectured on his new book in Boston, 鄭rmenians of Karabagh During the 18th Century・ Dearborn, 鄭rmenian Liberation Movement in Karabagh in the 18th Century・ Toronto, 鄭rmenian-Turkish Dialogue・ New York Diocese, 鄭rmenian Church in the 18th-19th Centuries・  and 迭ussia and the Armenian National Resurgence in the 18th Century.・/font>
He gave a talk on 鄭rmenia-The First Christian State?・at a Deans Symposium at Iona.

NﾉLIDA BOULGOURDJIAN-TOUFEKSIAN (University of Buenos Aires) has prepared, with Juan Carlos Toufeksian, a brochure on the Armenian Genocide to be distributed during the remembrance of April 24.
She has reviewed, Voices of Armenian Women, ed. Barbara Merguerian and Joy Renjilian-Burgy, AIWA Press, 2000, published in Sardarabad newspaper.
She was invited to participate at the Forum 滴olocaust Memory and Education,・in the panel 撤atterns of Denial,・April 19, 2001. She lectured on 撤atterns of Denial in the Armenian Genocide.・/font>

CARNEGIE SAMUEL CALIAN (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary) was awarded an honorary doctorate (Doctorem Honoris Causa) by the University of Sibiu in Romania on October 24, 2000.
His recent book, Survival or Revival: Ten Keys to Church Vitality is now in its third printing and has just been brought out in Korean.
He participated in the conference entitled, 的ndifference: Remembering the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust,・held on the Pittsburgh Seminary campus on April 4, 2001.

DAVID STEPHEN CALONNE (Wayne State University) has published 典he Precision of Line and Touch,・ as essay on Peter Sourian, in Ararat, Spring 2000, pp. 65-72 and 滴enry Miller and Tibet,・Stroker 68, pp. 8-19.
He has forthcoming, 鏑awrence Durrell and Gostan Zarian in Greece: The Discovery of Yourself,・ in Lawrence Durrell and Greece, ed. Anna Lillios.
He participated in the 3rd Annual Conference Celebrating William Saroyan, held at the Public Library in San Francisco, August 2000.
He gave a lecture on Peter Najarian and Peter Balakian at the UCLA Conference on Diarbekir, November 2000.

LEVON CHORBAJIAN (University of Massachusetts) was the April 24th keynote speaker at Lowell, Massachusetts and Peabody, Massachusetts.

PETER COWE (Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies, UCLA) organized the international conference 鼎ontemporary Armenian Literature・sponsored by the Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies, UCLA (April 7-8 2001).
He organized the panels 迭eligious and Political Issues under the Armenian Kingdom  of Cilicia and its Aftermath・and 鼎onstructions of the Feminine in Modern Armenian Literature・which have been accepted on the program of the Middle East Studies Association meeting in San Francisco (November 2001).
He lectured on 溺odern Armenian Drama・a book talk given at the Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLA.
He presented a paper 鉄ilk, Missions, and a Crusade: Two 17th Century Plays against the Backdrop of Franco-Armenian political, economic, and cultural Interchange・at the California Regional Middle East Studies Conference, UC Santa Barbara.

CHAKﾉ DER MELKONIAN-MINASSIAN (Retired professor, University of Montreal) has finished the French version of One of the Links, or Vagharsh the First, King of Armenia a historical novel, translated also into English. The novel痴 action takes place at the beginning of the 2nd century A.D., as it represents life in Armenia before the adoption of Christianity, in as many fields as possible: history, pagan creed, gods and goddesses, the nakharars, their relationship with the king and their peasants, important ceremonies (such as death, marriage, and coronation); the situation of women; traditions and superstitions, etc.
All such details are introduced while telling the story of Vagharsh I, an almost unknown King of Armenia, but as he restored the Arshakuni kingdom in 117 AD, is nevertheless one of the significant links of Armenia痴 history.

BARLOW DER MUGRDECHIAN (CSU, Fresno) was the moderator of the panel on 鄭rmenian Literature in Non-Armenian Languages・at the UCLA World Conference in Contemporary Armenian Literature.
He was interviewed by The Fresno Bee on May 5, 2001 on the forthcoming visit of His Holiness Karekin II  to the United States and Canada.
On May 9, he introduced His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians, at a lecture for the Armenian Studies Program held on the CSU Fresno campus.
His three entries-on Vartan Gregorian, Lucine Amara, and Kirk Kerkorian were published in a new book, 溺aking It in America: A Biographical Sourcebook of Eminent Ethnic Americans,・edited by Elliott Barkan.

ARMEN GAKAVIAN (Epping Australia) participated in the American University of Armenia, Yerevan-Extension Program Lecture Series: 典owards 2001: The Meaning of the 1700th Anniversary of Christianity in Armenia, 27 September 2000・and in 鄭 Model of Community Mobilization for Armenia,・26 September 2000 One-Day Workshop, 釘uilding Civil Society: Strategies for Social Change,・NGO Workshop Series, American University of Armenia, Yerevan, 2 October 2000.
He delivered papers for a seminar series for journalists on the 撤romotion of the Formation of a Philanthropic Mindset in Armenian Society, Mission Armenia and the Eurasia Foundation,・Yerevan, Armenia, 3-4 October 2000: 溺odels of Philanthropy and Community Mobilization: Lessons from Australia Models of Philanthropic Mindset Formation and Community Mobilization for Post-Soviet Armenia,・ 典he Role of Journalists in Promoting a Philanthropic Mindset in Armenia,・ and 典he Characteristics of Diasporan Philanthropic Organizations.
He gave an interview with Voice of America痴 Armenian Program concerning the work of Mission Armenia, an NGO in Yerevan, 4 September & 27 October 2000
He went on a speaking tour of Armenian evangelical churches in the United States regarding the socio-economic and spiritual situation in Armenia and the role of the church in national reconstruction, November-December 2000.
He gave a one-day Seminar, 典he Kingdom of God,・East Coast Armenian Evangelical Adults・ Fellowship Annual Retreat, Boston, MA, 11 - 12 November 2000; a paper on Spirituality and Community Mobilization in post-Soviet Armenia, delivered for the panel Spirituality: The Meaningful Road to Healing from Stress and Trauma, Fordham University, New York, 1 December 2000; a lunch time seminar on Building Armenia痴 Future: Strategies for Social Change, UCLA History department, 7 December 2000;  and a talk on The Power of Networking: Young Armenians in Australia, delivered to a gathering of the Armenian Young Professionals of Australia, Hi Knights Restaurant, 6 February 2001.
He has published a monograph: Towards 2001: The Meaning of the 1700th Anniversary of Christianity in Armenia, Boston, MA, November 2000.
He was interviewed with SBS Armenian Radio Program, Sydney, Australia, concerning the youth in Armenia, 21 March 2001 and 展hen Remembrance is Selective: On the Armenian Genocide Northwest Ethnic Voice,・Salem, Oregon, March-April 2001, pp. 7-8.

ROBERT H. HEWSEN (Rowan University-Emeritus) has published Armenia a Historical Atlas (University of Chicago, 2001) 336 pp; 278 maps.
He has contributed a chapter on 典he Province of Van・for the recently released The Province of Van/Vaspourakan ed. Richard G. Hovannisian (Costa Mesa, CA 2000).
He has in press, 鼎hronological Problems in Regard to the Conversion of Armenia to Christianity,・in Proceedings of the World conference 鄭rmenia 2000・and 典he Five Principalities of Tsopk-Sophene・in The Province of Tsopk-Kharpert ed. Richard G. Hovannisian.
He retired from active teaching at Rowan University in 1999. He has been visiting professor of Armenian Studies at the University of Chicago (Spring, 1999), visiting professor at Columbia University (Fall, 1999), and St. Nersess Theological Seminary (Winter, 2001).
He has published 30 articles for the encyclopedia Women in World History (2001).
He spoke on 典he Conversion of Armenia,・at St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, April 2001.
He is currently working on a book on the Meliks of Karabagh followed by one on the conversion of Armenia to Christianity.

ANN LOUSIN (The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, ) concluded nine years as a member of the board of The Armenian Bar Association at its annual meeting in March, 2001. She served as an officer in several capacities, including three years as Chair of the Board (1995-1998) and more recently as Secretary (2000-2001).  She is now Chair of the Genocide Research Project Committee of The Armenian Bar Association.

VARTAN MATIOSSIAN (Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires) has published the following articles: 鄭rmeno-Turkish Dialogue: Perspectives and Possibilities  (A Forum of Historians in New York)・ Harach (Paris), February 14 and  15; 鄭rmenian Studies in the United States Under the Light of  Criticism from Armenia・(in Armenian), Harach (Paris), March 7, 8 and 9 (about  Armen Ayvazian痴 book); 鄭 Literary Mystification: From Borges to Garcia Marquez・nbsp; (in Armenian), Horizon-Literary Supplement (Montreal), March 2001,  10-12; and 展here Does Our Intellectual World Stand?・(in  Armenian), Harach, April 7, 2001.
He has reviewed 鄭rmenia From  Artavazd to Tiridates the Great, by Ruben Manaserian・(in Armenian), Armenian  Numismatic Journal, March 2001, 2001.
He has translated Ruben Hakhverdian, 添o recuerdo,・Sardarabad (Buenos Aires),  February 7, 2001.

ROBERT F. MELSON (Purdue University) has published False Papers: Deception and Survival in the Holocaust (University of Illinois Press, 2000). A Family memoir.
SUZANNE E. MORANIAN (Winchester MA) presided as president over the Armenian International Women痴 Association (AIWA) Conference held in Yerevan, October 2000. She presented a paper at the conference, 典he United States and the Armenian Genocide.・/font>
She was chair of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association, Board of Directors, Summer Symposium, 擢inding Peace in the 21st Century,・June 3-7, 2001.
She presented a paper entitled 典he American Response to the Armenian Genocide・at a conference sponsored by the Armenian National Institute, September 2000.

DENNIS R. PAPAZIAN (University of Michigan, Dearborn) is outgoing SAS President and has an article on the Armenian-American community in the Dutch journal het Christelijke Oosten 52, no. 3-4 (2000), pp. 311-347.  Also on the subject of the Armenian-American community, he contributed 3 individual case studies of Armenian-Americans to Making It: Ethnic Groups in America, ed. Eliott Barkan, which will be published by ABC-CLIO in late April 2001.
His co-translation of selections from Movses Khorenatsi has recently been published in The Heritage of Armenian Literature, Volume I: From the Oral Tradition to the Golden Age, Agop Hacikyan, et al., eds. (Detroit: Wayne State University, 2000), pp. 311-340.
His book review of George Bournoutian, tr. The Chronicle of Abraham of Crete (Patmut訴wn of Kat双ghikos Abraham Kretats訴) has recently appeared in the Middle Eastern Studies Association Bulletin 34, no. 1 (Summer 2000), pp. 81-82, and of Richard G. Hovannisian, ed., Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide, in History: Reviews of New Books, 28, no. 2 (Winter 2000), pp. 78-79.
His book reviews of George A. Bournoutian, Russia and the Armenians of Transcaucasia, 1797-1889: A Documentary Record and of Richard G. Hovannisian, ed., Remembrance and Denial: The Case of the Armenian Genocide, have  been published in Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, 10 (1997, 1998 [2000]), pp. 141-143 and 152-154, respectively.
His 1999 conference article on the contributions of Armenians from Jerusalem to the Armenian community in America has been accepted for publication in the Armenian Studies Series of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He participated in a panel discussion on 鄭 Dream Realized: Celebrating the First Forty Years,・ University of Michigan-Dearborn, April 18, 2000.
He organized a workshop on 典he Ongoing Dialogue and the Armenian Genocide,・University of Michigan-Dearborn, March 17, 2001, and chaired the afternoon session.
He was a panel participant for 鼎ompiling Oral History,・at the 溺ultimedia Approaches to Documenting the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide・ Wayne State University痴 Annual Conference on the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide, March 28, 2001, and he chaired a panel on 典he Historical Structure of the Armenian Church,・Conference on the Armenian Church, New York, Diocese of the Armenian Church of America, March 31, 2001.
 

RUBINA PEROOMIAN (UCLA) participated in the World Council of Churches Central Committee meeting in Potsdam Germany, Jan. 29- Feb. 6.
She participated in a book talk on March 8th, organized by the Center for  European and Russian Studies at UCLA, as the discussant of the newly  published anthology of Modern Armenian Drama edited by Nishan Parlakian and S. Peter Cowe.
She was interviewed on 滴orizon・TV on March 23, and the interview was published in the Asbarez newspaper on March 29th on the topic of Armenian Djavakhk, its past, its present, and its dire needs today.
She participated in the World Conference in Contemporary Armenian Literature at UCLA, April 7-8, as the rapporteur of the panel on the theme of  literature and Armenian Identity.
She is leaving for Armenia on April 22nd to participate in a conference on Garegin Nzhdeh and to conduct further teacher training workshops on her textbook of The History of the Armenian Question, currently used in the high schools with humanities program in Armenia.

JAMES RUSSELL (Mashtots Chair of Armenian Studies, Harvard) has published, a new book An Armenian Epic: The Heroes of Kasht (Caravan, Ann Arbor).
He has published the following articles: in this issue of Le Museon, 典he Scepter of Tiridates・ and in the forthcoming Journal of Armenian Studies (NAASR, Belmont), 釘edros Tourian痴 Cruciform Prayer and its Antecedents・and 典he Demon Weed.・/font>
He has lectured to the Armenian Church of the Holy Saviour, Worcester, MA, Lenten Series: 溺inas of Tokat and his Poem in Praise of Herisa・
He has written letters countering denials of the Armenian Genocide to the NY Review of Books, the NY Press Weekly, and the Boston Phoenix.

DORA SAKAYAN (Canada) has published Esmirna 1922: Entre el fuego, el sable y el agua. El diarion del Dr. Hatcherian. Translated from the Armenian original and the English edition by Juan R. S. Yelanguezian, Montr饌l: Arod, 2001, 145 pp. and Smyrne: Entre le feu, la glaive et l弾au. Les 駱reuves d置n m馘ecin arm駭ien (translated by Ethel Groffier),  Paris: L辿armattan 2000, pp. 146.
For the last three months, she have been launching these books in Quebec and in Argentina. She is presently in Buenos Aires.
Last month, organized an electronic conference for the AHEPA and Genocide Forum)

LEVON SARYAN (Greenfield, WI) had his competitive display 適arabagh Numismatics・receive a First Place award at the annual show of the Milwaukee Numismatic Society in September 2000.
His competitive display 溺edal of the Armenian Embassy in Ottawa・received  Best in Show at the annual show of the South Shore Coin Club on March 30, 2001.
He received the Elston Bradfield Literary Award of the Central States  Numismatic Society on April 7, 2001 for the best article published in the Centinel during the year 2000.  The article described a new coin of Tigranes II.
He also received an award for Third Place from the Numismatists of  Wisconsin for an article in the NOW News in 1999 which discussed an ancient silver coin of Artvasdes II.

MICHAEL E. STONE (Hebrew University)  has been elected Honourary Life President of AIEA at the conclusion of 20 years・service as Founding President.
He has publications: with G.A. Anderson, Studies in the Books of Adam and Eve, in Literature on Adam and Eve: Collected Essays, ed. G. Anderson, M. Stone, J. Tromp, (Brill: Leiden, 2000); with M.E. Shirinian, Pseudo-Zeno: Anonymous Philosophical Treatise (Philisophia Antiqua, 83) (Brill: Leiden, 2000); with B.G.Wright and D. Satran, The Apocryphal Ezekiel (Early Judaism and its Literature, 18) (Atlanta: SBL, 2000)
He has in press as Editor-in-Chief, with D. Kouymjian and H. Lehmann, Album of Armenian Paleography, (Aarhus University Press);  with R. Ervine, The Armenian Version of Epiphanius・On Weights and Measures, CSCO Subsidia, (Leuven); The Legend of Adam痴 Contract with Satan, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press); and Concordance of the Apocryphal Armenian Adam Books, (Peeters: Leuven).
He has published the following articles: 鉄ome Further Armenian Angelological Texts,濡agik Sarkissian Festschrift (in press); 典he Mount of the Transfiguration and Armenian Pilgrimage to the Galilee.粘hoghakat・(in press);  典he Armenian Inscriptions,箱Report on Excavations of the Third Wall, ed. D. Amit, and S. Wolf. Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority; 典he Bones of Adam and Eve,・Nickelsberg FS; 鄭nother Manuscript of the Armenian Version of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs,・Revue des Etudes Arm駭iennes;  Review of J.-C. Haelewyck, Clauis Apocryphorum Veteris Testamenti (Corpus Christianorum) Turnhout: Brepols, 1998.・Le Mus駮n (in press): 244. 典he Esdras Apocalypses,・ Introduction to Christian Apocryphal Literature. ed. M. Himmelfarb and A. Yarboro Collins. Polebridge Press, (in press); 典he Reception of Jewish and Biblical Traditions among the Armenians,・From Ararat to Jerusalem: Montpellier Conference Volume; and 鄭 Reassessment of the Bird and Eustathius Mosaics,尿rmenian Monks and Pilgrimsed. R. R. Ervine, M. E. Stone and N. Stone (Hebrew University Armenian Series).

LORNE SHIRINIAN (Royal Military College, Canada) presented a keynote paper on Armenian literatures in other languages at the World Conference on Armenian Literature held at UCLA on April 7-8.
He has published Writing Memory: The Search for Home in Armenian Diaspora Literature as Cultural Practice (Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2001)
He has published another book: Lorne Shirinian and Alan Whitehorn, The Armenian Genocide: Resisting the Inertia of Indifference (Kingston: Blue Heron Press, 2001).
Anyone interested in purchasing his books can do so at the following web site: www.blueheronpress.ca or can e-mail to bheron@kos.net.

MﾉLINA LﾉNA TAKVORIAN (Columbia University) is ABD since February 2001 (she received her M. Phil degree in Armenian Studies/Comparative literature).
She gave a paper on 鼎ityscapes of Identity: Tracking the Armenian Diaspora,・for the conference 溺apping Multitudes: The Spatial Turn in Theory, Literature & Criticism,・ held on April 6, 2001 at NYU.
She was a panelist for 撤sycho-spiritual and educational dialogue between professionals of Armenian and Turkish descent・at Fordham University, April 5, 2001, organized by AAASG.

HENRY C. THERIAULT (Center for Holocaust Studies, Clark University) Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Worcester State College Coordinator of the Center for the Study of Human Rights, Worcester State College) in the Fall of 2000, taught the first course on the Armenian Genocide offered by Clark University痴 Center for Holocaust Studies
He has published 填niversal Social Theory and the Denial of Genocide:  The Case of Norman Itzkowitz,・ to be published in the summer or fall 2001 in the Journal of Genocide Research; he published a letter to the editor September 18, 2000, New Republic,  pointing out Dick Cheney痴 record of anti-Armenian activity.
He served on the 擢uture of Holocaust Denial・Panel at the 31st Annual Scholars Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, which took place in Philadelphia from March 4 to 6.  He presented on the future of denials of other genocides, especially the Armenian Genocide.
He was the keynote speaker at the Worcester, MA-wide commemoration of the Armenian Genocide:  April 22, 2001
He was the main speaker at the Armenian National Committee of Chicago痴 Armenian Genocide commemoration program: April 21, 2001; World Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities: Harriman Institute, Columbia University; April 5 - 7, 2001:  As part of the Karabakh panel, presented 敵lass Houses, Real Corpses:  Liberal Antinational-ism, Genocide Denial, and Karabakh・ Facing History and Ourselves Staff Development Workshop:  Center for Holocaust Studies, Clark University; February 26, 2001:  Delivered talk and ran interactive workshop on 典he Armenian Genocide:  Historical Lessons and Unfinished Business・for staff of Facing History and Ourselves; Armenian National Committee of America Panel on the Armenian Republics猶ast, Present, and Future: Bethesda, MD; June 3, 2000: Discussed symbolic and practical importance of the 1918 - 20 Republic for the post-genocide reconstitution of Armenian group cohesion and identity as well as the relationship to the Armenian Genocide of the Turkish conquest of it; Historical Society of Midwood High School at Brooklyn College: Midwood High School, Brooklyn, NY; May 17, 2000:  Delivered the Ninth Annual Lecture on the Armenian Genocide, 典he Intentional Denial of Known Genocides・28th Conference on Value Inquiry:  Lamar University, Beaumont, TX; April 14, 2000: Presented 擢reedom of Speech and the Intentional Denial of Known Genocides,・a paper generalizing to denial of various genocides the main arguments of 泥enial and Free Speech:  The Case of the Armenian Genocide・ 典he Armenian Genocide and Historical Memory:  Facing the Twenty-First Century・  UCLA; April 8, 2000:  As part of this symposium, delivered 泥enial and Free Speech:  The Case of the Armenian Genocide,・a paper examining the increasing danger posed by public denial of the Armenian Genocide as the actual events recede in history and arguing for sanctions against the intentional abuse of speech liberties to deny a known genocide; 泥enial of the Armenian Genocide:  Intergenerational and Long-Term Effects・ Panel:  Fordham University; April 6, 2000:  Presented 擢ree Speech and the Denial of Genocide,・a variation of 泥enial and Free Speech.・/font>

KHACHIG TﾖLﾖLYAN (Wesleyan University) participated in the UCLA Conference on Contemporary Armenian Literature, April 7-8, 2001, with a paper on 典he Role of the Writer in Society.・/font>
He gave a lecture on the newly issued novel, Nshan, by Krikor Beledian, on March 22, 2001, in Glendale, California.

ANAHID UGURLAYAN (New York) has published 典he Protection of Cultural Property under International Law: The Case of  Armenian Monuments in Turkey,・in Armenian Forum- Vol. 2 No. 2 - 2000) and 鄭rmenia: Privatization and Foreign Direct Investment in a Climate of  Political and Economic Instability,・Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, Vol. 23, Issue 3 (May 2001).

PAMELA YOUNG (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) has defended her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor titled 適nowledge, Nation, and the Curriculum: Ottoman Armenian Education (1853-1915)・nbsp; She was also chosen by the Dean to give the commencement address on behalf of all masters and doctoral recipients at the spring graduation exercises.

Errata:
In the SAS Newsletter (XXV, 1, Winter 2001) there was a misprint on p. 13 at the beginning of the 2nd paragraph: for the information on Boghos Levon Zekiyan 滴e has published the following book: Guenter Prinzing・should have read reviewed, instead of published.・/font>