The Alaska World Affairs Council Presents

Dr. Michael Papazian
Chair, Department of Religion and Philosophy at Berry College

"After Nine Decades: The Enduring Legacy of the Armenian Genocide"

Friday, 17th October 2008 – Hilton Hotel
Doors open at 11:30 a.m. - Program begins at 12:00 p.m.
For Reservations
RSVP by Wednesday, 15th October to the Alaska World Affairs Council
by telephone 276-8038 or by email to AlaskaWorldAffairs.org .
Lunch Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only
 

Biography
Michael Papazian is associate professor of philosophy and chair of the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Berry College. He has taught at Berry since 1998 and has also served as the director of Berry's Honors Program. He teaches the general education philosophy courses as well as several upper-level courses: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Law, Symbolic Logic. He also teaches one religion course: New Testament Greek.
He received his bachelor's degree in 1987 from the Johns Hopkins University. He then got his master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia after completing a thesis on mathematical and modal realism. He went on to complete his Ph.D. in philosophy at Virginia in 1995 with a dissertation on the role of truth and intuition in rationality. In addition to his study of contemporary metaphysics and philosophical logic, he also pursued his interest in ancient philosophy at Virginia. In order to research the early Armenian translations of and commentaries on Greek philosophical texts, he studied the classical Armenian language at Oxford University. He received a Master of Studies degree in classical Armenian from Oxford in 1995.
Dr. Papazian has completed three books concerned with Armenian studies. His translation of the medieval theologian Eghishe's commentary on Genesis has been published by the Matenadaran Library of Ancient Manuscripts in 2004. A book on the history of Armenian Christianity as well as a translation of an eighth century Armenian commentary on the Gospels are in press. Dr. Papazian has also published numerous journal articles and given presentations on a range of topics including Stoic logic and metaphysics, the medieval Aristotelian commentary tradition, the medieval Armenian biblical commentary tradition, the morality of war, terrorism, and the theology of sin and redemption.