UC Irvine to host talk on Nagorno Karabakh

PanARMENIAN.Net - University of California Irvine will host a talk on Thursday, Nov 15 at its campus’ Humanities Instructional Building entitled “The Karabakh Conflict From Ceasefire to Safarov: Analysis Via Television News Coverage: 1990s to 2012,” to be presented by Dr. Levon Marashlian, professor of History at Glendale Community College and lecturer at University of California, Irvine, according to Asbarez.

Marashlian is Professor of History at Glendale Community College where he teaches Armenian History and the Diaspora, as well as Middle Eastern, Russian, and U.S. history and politics. He has also taught at UCI, UCLA, and CSUN. He lectured extensively in Armenia as a Fulbright Scholar and in Stepanakert, he analyzed news coverage of the Karabakh Conflict for government officials. He testified in the U.S. Congress in 1996. In 1990, he participated in the 11th Congress of Turkish History in Ankara, the first time an Armenian historian lectured on the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Among his publications is a book printed in Istanbul: Ermeni Sorunu ve Türk-Amerikan Iliskileri, 1919-1923 [The Armenian Question and Turkish-American Relations].