[Discussion] Mobilizing the Karabagh Movement

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LECTURE- Harutyun Marutyan, Mobilizing the Karabagh Movement, Jan. 22, MIT

On January 22, MIT Anthropology Program will host a lecture by Fulbright 
visiting scholar Dr. Harutyun Marutyan, entitled "Rituals of Defence: 
Mobilizing the Karabagh Movement (Armenia, 1988-1990)". The goal of the 
lecture is to analyze the ways of people's overcoming the extensive 
psychological and emotional tensions and pressures, grief and memories of 
pain during the Karabagh movement. The lecture is based on visual materials, 
particularly posters and banners of the national-democratic movement of that 
period.

Dr. Harutyun Marutyan is Social/Cultural Anthropologist, Senior Researcher 
at Institute of Ethnography and Archeology, National Academy of Sciences, 
Armenia and Visiting Professor at the Chair of Ethnography, Yerevan State 
University. He received his PhD in 1984, in Moscow, from the Institute of 
Ethnography, USSR Academy of Sciences. Currently his research is devoted to 
the role of historical memory in the 20th century Armenian identity.

The lecture will take place at:

3:00 pm, January 22, Room 16-220
Anthropology Program, Dorrance Building, MIT
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA

Online map: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=16-220&mapsearch=go /> 
Contact
E-mail: Dr. Harutyan Marutyan <hmarut@mit.edu>
Tel: (617)253-3065 (Anthropology Program), (617)923-0008 (Harutyun Marutyan)