Event Videos — Peter Balakian
Artsakh: Loss, Trauma, and Restoration - Conference
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Geoffrey Robertson KCSESSIONS
Session I: Forced Displacement, Trauma, and Public Health
Session II: Words and Discourse
Session III: Cultural Heritage
Session IV: International Law and Restoration
Witnessing the Armenian Massacres ~ The Story of a Physician, a Poet, an a Book of Poems: Dr. Diran Balakian, Siamanto, and Bloody News from My Friend
Peter Balakian discusses the book of poems Bloody News from My Friend by Siamanto (1878-1915). Dr. Diran Balakian, Peter Balakian’s grandfather, at the time of the 1909 Adana massacres was working as a physician tending to the wounded and was also an eyewitness to the atrocities.
PETER BALAKIAN/KATHLEEN OSSIP: Launch of "No Sign"
In this new poetry collection, Peter Balakian wrestles with national and global cultural and political realities, including challenges for the human species amid planetary transmutation and the impact of mass violence on the self and culture.