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Event Videos — Ararat Eskijian Museum

The Auctioning of Stolen Armenian Properties: Emval-i Metruke ~ Monday, June 16, 2025

The Auctioning of Stolen Armenian Properties: Emval-i Metruke ~ Monday, June 16, 2025

Watch this special webinar, organized by the Armenian Genocide Research Program of the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, presenting groundbreaking research on the fate of Armenian properties confiscated during and after the Armenian Genocide of 1915.


Those Who Could Save Their World and Those Who Could Not: What Do Family Archives Tell Us? ~ Monday, May 19, 2025

Those Who Could Save Their World and Those Who Could Not: What Do Family Archives Tell Us?  ~ Monday, May 19, 2025

This talk will concentrate on multiple families’ archives kept in Philadelphia, Montreal, and New Jersey.


Material Afterlives of Genocide: Violence, Memory, and Landscapes of Ruins in Van ~ Monday, May 12, 2025

Material Afterlives of Genocide: Violence, Memory, and Landscapes of Ruins in Van ~ Monday, May 12, 2025

This talk focuses on the overlapping histories of the Armenian and Kurdish communities in the region of Van in southeastern Turkey through an exploration of spaces of material ruination.


Pavagan E (Enough!) Zabel Yesayanʼs (1878–1943?) Political Thought on Peace, Justice, and Peopleʼs Right to Self-Defense ~ Monday, April 21, 2025

Pavagan E (Enough!) Zabel Yesayanʼs (1878–1943?) Political Thought on Peace, Justice, and Peopleʼs Right to Self-Defense ~ Monday, April 21, 2025

This lecture focused on Armenian feminist writer and activist Zabel Yesayan’s “Pavagan E (Enough!)” published in 1922 in Vienna’s Arek (Sun) monthly. 


Construction of the Armenian Genocide Denial Narrative ~ Monday, April 14, 2025

Construction of the Armenian Genocide Denial Narrative ~ Monday, April 14, 2025

This lecture explores the roots of Armenian genocide denialist discourse and its construction as part of the official Ottoman state narrative.


The Library and the Survivor: Aram Andonian in Paris ~ Saturday, March 1, 2025

The Library and the Survivor: Aram Andonian in Paris ~ Saturday, March 1, 2025

The history of the Nubar Library, founded in Paris in 1927, is inextricably linked to that of its first librarian, Aram Andonian.


Genetic Insights into the Origins of Armenians ~ Sunday, March 2, 2025

Genetic Insights into the Origins of Armenians ~ Sunday, March 2, 2025

This talk will cover a recent study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics (“Demographic history and Genetic Variation of the Armenian Population”), of which the two speakers are among the co-authors, that conducted the first whole-genome analysis of Armenians to explore their genetic history and variation.


Armenian Cultural Heritage: Past, Present, and Future ~ Saturday, February 8, 2025

Armenian Cultural Heritage: Past, Present, and Future ~ Saturday, February 8, 2025

Full-day conference that brings together a diverse group of experts to delve into the rich Armenian cultural heritage of the South Caucasus and Eastern Turkey.


'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.

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.