From November 11 to November 24, 2019, Yerevan-based Armenian reporter and author Tatul Hakobyan will deliver lectures on Armenia’s domestic developments and foreign policy challenges after 2018 Velvet revolution for Armenian communities in 10 European cities of Belgium, Switzerland, France, Italy, and Germany.
Hakobyan will start his lectures in Brussels, Belgium, final stop will be Nürnberg, Germany.
Below is the schedule of the meetings;
November 11, Brussels, Belgium,
November 12, Geneva, Switzerland,
November 13, Zurich, Switzerland,
November 15, Paris, France,
November 16, Lyon, France,
November 17, Marseille, France,
November 19, Milan, Italy,
November 21, Berlin, Germany,
November 22, Aschaffenburg, Germany,
November 24, Nürnberg, Germany.
The lectures and Q&A sessions will be followed by a presentation of Hakobian’s and his ANI Armenian Research Center’s books.
Tatul Hakobyan graduated from the Department of Journalism in Yerevan State University, and Georgian Institute of Public Affairs in Tbilisi. He has formerly worked as a correspondent for the newspapers Ankakhutyun (1991-1995) Yerkir (1998-2000), Azg (2000-2005), Aztag (2005-2016), The Armenian Reporter (2008-2009) and as a political observer on regional issues of Radiolur news program of Public Radio of Armenia (2004-2008).
Since 2009 he has been an analyst at the independent Civilitas Foundation. Hakobyan is the reporter with the CivilNet online TV and the coordinator of the ANI Armenian Research Center.
In 2005 he received Yerevan Press Club’s Annual Award for the coverage of regional issues in Azg daily. In 2009, Yerevan Press Club awarded him for his first book “Karabakh Diary; Green and Black”.
Hakobyan is a recipient (2014) of Haigashen Ouzounian Literary Award for his second book “Armenians and Turks”.
He is the 2016 winner of “The Time for Freedom of Press” – for consistent and comprehensive coverage of Karabagh conflict.
On February 20, 2019, Hakobyan received Media Excellence Award (2018 Universal Rigthts Award) in recognition of outstanding commitment to producing thoughtful and independent reports and promoting freedom of speech and expression.
