On Tuesday, May 13th at 7:00pm in Yerevan Room at the Diocesan Complex, the Zohrab Center will host a book presentation by NYU professor of Italian studies, Ara H. Merjian, translator of Aram’s Notebook (Swan Isle Press / University of Chicago Press, 2024), a novel based on the Armenian Genocide, originally written in Catalan. Prof. Merjian will speak about the novel, after which there will be a Q&A and book signing, with copies of the book available for sale at the event.

Ara H. Merjian is professor of Italian Studies at New York University, where he is an affiliate of the Institute of Fine Arts and the Department of Art History. He is a member of the College of Professors in the Department of History, University of Milan, and the author of Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris and Blueprints and Ruins: Giorgio de Chicrico and the Architectural Imagination from the Avant-Gardes to Postmodernism, both from Yale University Press.