April 8, 2021 – 6:30 to 7:30 pm
In honor of Armenian History Month, the Ventura County Library along with the Southern California Library Cooperative are continuing their Be The Change Series with “Armenia, Artsakh, Diaspora – Memory, Identity, and Responsibility: A Conversation with Eric Hacopian and Salpi Ghazarian
consultant and commentator Eric Hacopian will be in conversation with Salpi Ghazarian, Director of the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, about Armenia now.
Saturday, April 10, 2021 – 6:30 to 7:30 pm The Resistance Network: a conversation with author and lecturer Khatchig Mouradian, PhD., and filmmaker and screenwriter Eric Nazarian. The Resistance Network is the history of an underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats in Ottoman Syria who helped save the lives of thousands during the Armenian Genocide. Khatchig Mouradian challenges depictions of Armenians as passive victims of violence and subjects of humanitarianism, demonstrating the key role they played in organizing a humanitarian resistance against the destruction of their people.