Dr. Hayk Demoyan, Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan, Armenia, will present an illustrated lecture in Armenian on Sunday, March 11, 2012 at the Glendale Central Library Auditorium. Dr. Demoyan will discuss some of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute’s major recent publications on Genocide, including survivor memoirs, eyewitness accounts, research on Armenian social life before the Genocide, reprinted editions of rare primary sources, collections of newly-discovered documents, and works on the Cilicia massacres of 1909. The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute is a nonprofit organization based in Yerevan, Republic of Armenia. The mission of the Museum is both to promote the collection of visual textual materials related to the daily life of Western Armenians in the Ottoman Empire before and during the Genocide, and to develop more effective cooperation and collaboration among organizations worldwide involved in the research of genocide, particularly the Armenian Genocide. The program is sponsored by, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan, the Ararat-Eskijian Museum, and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), Glendale Public Library.

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