DETROIT, MICH — The Committee to Commemorate the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide is co-sponsoring its 19th annual Holocaust and Armenian Genocide Commemoration at Wayne State University’s McGregor Memorial Conference Center, 495 Ferry Mall, 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. April 28.

This year’s guest speaker is Lawrence Baron, professor, San Diego State University, who will give a multimedia presentation, “Genres of Genocide: Cinematic Conventions in Feature Films about the Armenian, Jewish and Rwandan Genocides.”

Originally composed of faculty members at Wayne State, the planning committee has expanded to include representatives from the University of Michigan at Dearborn, including the Voice/Vision Survivor Oral History and the Armenian Research Center. This year, for the first time, the Armenian Studies Program at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor will also participate in the commemoration.

After the program, Baron will be available to sign his recently published work, Projecting the Holocaust into the Present: The Changing Focus of Holocaust Feature Films Since 1990.

A free luncheon will be served to pre-registrants.

For more information or to register, contact The Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at (313) 577-2679 or aa2690@wayne.edu.