Throughout the fall semester, Dr. Khatchig Mouradian will give three free public lectures at Fresno State about “Genocide and Resilience.”

Mouradian is the newly appointed 13th Henry K. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor of Armenian Studies at Fresno State.

The first lecture, “Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1917,” will be in the University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium in Room 191 on Sept. 20 at 7:30 p.m. ­

The second lecture, “‘Don’t Fall off the Earth’: The Armenian Communities in China from the 1880s to 1950s,” will be on Oct. 20. The third lecture, “The Tale of Two Midwives: The Notebooks of Siphora and Nuritza Shnorhokian of Aintab, 1890-1930,” will be on Nov. 30.