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“32 Days on the Road: Our Journey to Santiago de Compostela and Beyond” Lecture by Dr. Haroutune Armenian
October 4, 2017 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm +04
AUA Armenian Digital Library will host a lecture on “32 Days on the Road: Our Journey to Santiago de Compostela and Beyond”, presented by Dr. Haroutune Armenian.
Armenian pilgrims have made the journey to Santiago (St. Hagop – St. James) de Compostela in Spain since the eleventh century. Today the Camino de Santiago is one of the most popular journeys people make from all over the world. Over 260,000 did this journey in 2015. There are a number of routes that lead to Santiago de Compostela.
In June-July 2016, Sona and Harout Armenian walked the most popular route: the French Way. It begins in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in France, passes through Pamplona, Logroño, Burgos, Leon, and Astoria and ends after 790 kms in Santiago. The journey provides an opportunity for experiencing physical endurance and spiritual rejuvenation. The presentation will be illustrated with slides of pictures, quotes and watercolor paintings from the road.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Haroutune Armenian is Professor in Residence of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (PH). He is also a Professor Emeritus at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he received his MPH and Dr. P.H. degrees following his M.D. from the American University of Beirut in 1968. Dr. Armenian’s academic and development leadership has included program development at the Ministry of Health in Bahrain, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the American University of Beirut, Director of the MPH Program at the Johns Hopkins University, and Dean of the School of Public Health at the American University of Armenia (AUA).
As President of the AUA for fourteen years, Dr. Armenian was at the forefront of the establishment of novel educational and development programs in Armenia and the Middle East. His awards include the Movses Khorenatsi Presidential Medal of Service in 2001 from the Republic of Armenia, and Presidential Medal of the Order of Cedars from the Republic of Lebanon. Dr. Armenian has been on the central executive council of the Armenian Church in Lebanon as well as on the central executive of the Hamazkayin Cultural Association and the Karageuzian Foundation. He has published over 100 scientific papers and peer reviewed chapters as well as 20 books. In Armenia, he continues to lead the Turpanjian Rural Development Program with over 280 businesses established in the villages and 1,000 persons trained in entrepreneurship. As an avid watercolor painter, Dr. Armenian has had 6 solo exhibitions and has published 3 books of watercolor paintings. In 2015 a retrospective of his watercolor paintings was published as part of his development on the international scene.
Dr. Armenian and his wife Sona are avid mountaineers: they climbed Mount Ararat in an AUA expedition in 2006 and in June – July 2012, they climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania with their son Saro. In May 2013 they did the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru. In February 2016 Sona climbed Mount Orizaba, the highest peak in Mexico, and in 2017 Mount Elbrus with a team from the Armenian Hikers Association. In June-July 2016 Sona and Harout completed the pilgrimage of Camino de Santiago de Compostela walking over 700 kilometers from the Pyrenees in France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain in 32 days.
