3rd Vardanants Lecture at the L of C

[Ared Misirliyan]

                  The Near East Section of the
 African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress
                      Invites you to attend
                 IN Memory of Marjorie M. Dadian
       And in Celebration of the Sections 50th Anniversary

                 The Third Annual Vardanants Day
                        Armenian Lecture

                        Nina G. Garsoian
             Professor emerita, Columbia University

         IRANIAN ELEMENTS IN EARLY ARMENIAN CHRISTIANITY

                7:00 P.M., Friday, April 7, 1995

                       Reception to Follow

                        The Mumford Room
         The James Madison Memorial Building, 6th Floor
                  1st and Independence Ave., SE
                         Washington, DC

             Parking in the Madison Building Garage
   Enter at 2nd Street, Between Independence Ave. and C Street

                Open to Public - Limited Seating

The Vardanants Lecture is the First in the series
 Oriens Illustratus: Programs for the Near East Section at Fifty

Other lecturers: Serif Mardin, "Some Approaches to the Social
Reality of Modern Turkish Intellectuals" (May 3, 7:00); Leila
Fawaz, "The Role of Arab Women in Social Change" (June 8, 7:00),
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, "The Components and Aspects of Persian
Culture" (July 14, 7:00); Seminar: "Arab American Cultural
Relations-Past, Present and Future" (September 29, 8:30-5:00),
with an accompanying: "Exhibit: Hearts and Minds Without
Boundaries: The Near East Experience"