Event Videos — Ararat Eskijian Museum
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
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
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
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
This lecture explores the roots of Armenian genocide denialist discourse and its construction as part of the official Ottoman state narrative.