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"How ‘Screamers’ and System of a Down Widened the Parameters of Public Debate About the Armenian Genocide" with Carla Garapedian

The Vahe & Armine Meghrouni Lecture Series in Armenian Studies

presents

“How ‘Screamers’ and System of a Down Widened the Parameters of Public Debate About the Armenian Genocide”

with

Carla Garapedian
Documentary Film Director

Thursday, May 15
Reception - 6:30 pm
Lecture - 7:00 pm
Humanities Gateway 1010

The only American ever to anchor the famous BBC World News Carla Garapedian earned her Ph.D. in international relations at the prestigious London School of Economics, before working for the BBC as a director and anchor. Since leaving the BBC she has worked as an international documentary director. She directed "Lifting the Veil," about women in Afghanistan, "Children of the Secret State," which details starvation, human rights abuses and cannibalism in North Korea, and "My Friend the Mercenary," about the coup in Equatorial Guinea. In 2005, her film “Iran Undercover,” about the student movement in Iran, won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award, as part of the PBS Frontline World series. In addition to anchoring for BBC World News, Garapedian has been a correspondent for NBC Sunrise, NBC Nightly News and CNBC financial news. She narrated the Armenian genocide film, “Voices from the Lake” by the acclaimed filmmaker, J.M. Hagopian, as well as co-writing his award-winning film “Germany and the Secret Genocide.”

Event is free and open to the public

Email Marc Kanda at mhkanda@uci.edu for more information.