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Event Videos — Contemporary Armenian Issues

RUSSIA-UKRAINE: War, Statecraft, and Shifting Geopolitics in Eurasia

RUSSIA-UKRAINE: War, Statecraft, and Shifting Geopolitics in Eurasia

EIU organized in collaboration with NAASR/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lecture Series on Contemporary Armenian Issues and Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module "EU, Security and Fundamental Rights" (EUSecJuris), a two-day Summer Institute on the topic of Russia-Ukraine: War, Statecraft, and Shifting Geopolitics in Eurasia.

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DEBUNKING MYTHS ON THE ROAD TO A SUSTAINABLE ARMENIA: A Discussion About Leadership, Cynicism, and Priorities

DEBUNKING MYTHS ON THE ROAD TO A SUSTAINABLE ARMENIA: A Discussion About Leadership, Cynicism, and Priorities

Join Dr. Irina Ghaplanyan, author of Post-Soviet Armenia: the New National Elite and the New National Narrative, for a discussion about leadership, cynicism, and priorities. This is the third program in the What’s Next series of discussions on the post-war Armenian Reality.

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Getting the Truth Out: Academia, Advocacy, and the War on Armenia(ns)

Getting the Truth Out: Academia, Advocacy, and the War on Armenia(ns)

Academics and advocates each contribute to the effort to promoting the truth about Armenian history as well as present day issues. Each brings a set of strengths and limitations, each speaks to particular (if overlapping) constituencies, and each faces the challenge of being proactive rather than merely reactive when it comes to facing aggressive and unending denial and distortion.

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Conflict, Displacement, and COVID-19

Conflict, Displacement, and COVID-19

Join a discussion of Conflict, Displacement and COVID-19 on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on regions affected by war, conflict, and displacement in the Middle East, Africa, and the South Caucasus. The speakers will explore the issue from a historical, human rights, and public health perspective. 

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Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh): The Ceasefire and What Happens Next

Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh): The Ceasefire and What Happens Next

Sunday, November 22, 2020, 1:00pm (Eastern) On Zoom and the NAASR YouTube channel Armenian Studies.FEATURINGMR. ROBERT AVETISYAN, Permanent Representative of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic to the United StatesDR. ANTRANIG KASBARIAN, Director of Development, Tufenkian FoundationDR. ANNA OHANYAN, Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Stonehill CollegeMODERATORMARC A. MAMIGONIAN, Director of Academic Affairs, NAASRCO-SPONSORSNational Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)/ Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lecture Series on Contemporary Armenian IssuesSociety for Armenian Studies (SAS)

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