{"id":1070,"date":"2016-06-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chgs-blog.org\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2016-06-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T12:00:00","slug":"pulitzer-prize-winner-peter-balakian-speaks-at-university-of-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/pulitzer-prize-winner-peter-balakian-speaks-at-university-of-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulitzer Prize Winner Peter Balakian Speaks at University of Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April, the University of Minnesota welcomed Pulitzer Prize winning author Peter Balakian to campus for the 2016 Ohanessian lecture, organized by Prof. Ana Forcinito (Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Studies) and<b>\u00a0<\/b>sponsored in part by the Center for Holocaust &amp; Genocide Studies. Dr. Balakian spoke about the cultural destruction that occurred during the Armenian Genocide. You can watch the presentation here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Peter Balakian: The Armenian Genocide and Cutural Destruction\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pOGU5YCjDq0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check out the CHGS blog in the coming weeks for an exciting interview with Dr. Balakian, discussing his work and the growing movement towards recognizing the Armenian Genocide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April, the University of Minnesota welcomed Pulitzer Prize winning author Peter Balakian to campus for the 2016 Ohanessian lecture, organized by Prof. Ana Forcinito (Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese Studies) and\u00a0sponsored in part by the Center for Holocaust &amp; Genocide Studies. Dr. Balakian spoke about the cultural destruction that occurred during the Armenian Genocide. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48170],"tags":[52720,56646,78068],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-reviews","tag-armenian-genocide","tag-chgs-events","tag-peter-balakian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}