The Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for East
European and Russian/Eurasian Studies at the University of Chicago present:

"Bridges Hrant Dink Built and Turkish/Armenian Relations"
Professor Gerard Libaridian

April 12, 2010, 4:30 PM
The University of Chicago
Social Science Research Building, Tea Room (SS 201)
1126 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Gerard Libaridian currently holds the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His work focuses on Armenia, the Caucasus, and the Near East. From 1991 to 1997 Prof. Libaridian served first as Adviser and then Senior Adviser for foreign and security policy (including relations with Turkey) to the former
President of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrossian.  He also served as First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-1994), and as negotiator for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.