Cummings Foundation Grant Recipient

Event Videos — Carla Garapedian

Armenian Genocide Looted Art and Restitution

Armenian Genocide Looted Art and Restitution

The Armenian Genocide Looted Art Research Project (AGLARP) leadership team is planning the project’s second phase and will shed light on recent and upcoming efforts during this conference at UCLA on Saturday, February 10, 2024. This exciting and critical event will consist of a documentary screening about the March conference, discussions of the AGLARP’s summer research findings, and a roundtable on how this conversation applies to past and current events, as well as what lies next for the AGLARP.

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Jackie in the Near East

Jackie in the Near East

The world premiere of the recently discovered lost film, “Jackie in the Near East,” a 1924 short film produced by the Near East Relief (NER) and featuring child-star Jackie Coogan, who helped raise millions of dollars in America for orphans of the Armenian Genocide.

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Remembrances: The Assassination of Talaat Pasha

Remembrances: The Assassination of Talaat Pasha

Dr. Carla Garapedian, who wrote the preface to this new edition of Remembrances, provides a general introduction and Bedo Demirdjian, translator of the memoir, talks about the challenges of working with this manuscript.

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Armenian Genocide Oral History Collections at USC Shoah Foundation: An overview of the Armenian Genocide Survivor Testimony Collections in the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive (VHA)

Armenian Genocide Oral History Collections at USC Shoah Foundation: An overview of the Armenian Genocide Survivor Testimony Collections in the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive (VHA)

The presentation provided an overview of the collections and a demonstration on how to use the Visual History Archive by Manuk Avedikyan, former program officer (Armenian Genocide collections) at USC Shoah Foundation.

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Aftermath: the Armenian Earthquake of 1988, A Photo Collection by Asadour Guzelian

Aftermath: the Armenian Earthquake of 1988, A Photo Collection by Asadour Guzelian

This webinar includes an introduction to the Armenian Image Archive (AIA) by Carla Garapedian, Ph.D., a survey by Joseph Malikian, Ph.D., of early Armenian photography which will be a focus of research in the AIA, and a presentation of Asadour Guzelian’s photographs, taken on his two trips to Armenia in 1988 and 1989.

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