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Event Videos

Recreating Home in Exile: The Armenian Memory Book (Houshamadean) as Artifact and Road Map ~ Thursday, November 14, 2024

Recreating Home in Exile: The Armenian Memory Book (Houshamadean) as Artifact and Road Map ~ Thursday, November 14, 2024

In this illustrated talk, Dr. Khatchig Mouradian explored the memorial book as a literary genre, art, and artifact.

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'The Very Limit of Our Endurance': Rev. Hovhannes Eskijian and His Network of Resisters During the Armenian Genocide ~ Friday, October 18, 2024

'The Very Limit of Our Endurance': Rev. Hovhannes Eskijian and His Network of Resisters During the Armenian Genocide ~ Friday, October 18, 2024

This talk explores the role of Reverend Hovhannes Eskijian and his associates in the underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats who resisted the destruction of the Armenian people during World War I.

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Gaslighting the World: How Azerbaijan Falsifies History and Denies Armenian Existence ~ Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Gaslighting the World: How Azerbaijan Falsifies History and Denies Armenian Existence ~ Wednesday, October 16, 2024

The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
Presents the Fifth Annual Prof. Charles B. Garabedian Lecture

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Writing Against Stalin's Western City: Mkrtich Armen's Yerevan (1931) and the Specter of the "New East" (Nor Arevelk') ~ Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Writing Against Stalin's Western City: Mkrtich Armen's Yerevan (1931) and the Specter of the "New East" (Nor Arevelk') ~ Wednesday, October 9, 2024

In his talk, Dr. Leupold will argue that these alternative imaginaries of the urban were informed, in an unexpected dialectical twist, both by retrotopian yearning for a (pre-)colonial past that was coming undone before their eyes and anticipation for a utopian future at a point of post-revolutionary history largely understood by its contemporaries as the dawn of socialist worldmaking. 

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Azerbaijan and the Destruction of Armenian Civilization ~ Saturday, September 28, 2024

Azerbaijan and the Destruction of Armenian Civilization ~ Saturday, September 28, 2024

Azerbaijan and the Destruction of Armenian Civilization by Samvel Karapetian and published by Research on Armenian Architecture (RAA) exposes the cultural genocide perpetrated against historical Armenian heritage by Azerbaijan.

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