Tuesday May 12, 2009
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Lick-Wilmerding High School
755 Ocean Avenue, San Francisco

Scholar and best-selling author Peter Balakian will discuss the newly translated book, Armenian Golgotha, a dramatic and comprehensive eyewitness account of the first modern genocide. Peter Balakian is also well known for his past works, Black Dog of Fate and The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Raphael Lemkin Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He holds a Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University and teaches at Colgate University, where he is a Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities.

For more information and to rsvp for this event, visit the Facing History and Ourselves website.

Co-presented by Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation’s Community Conversation Series.