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Event Videos — Marc Mamigonian

Armenians in Massachusetts, 1870-1924: Establishing a Community, Building Institutions

Armenians in Massachusetts, 1870-1924: Establishing a Community, Building Institutions

In the under-studied area of Armenian-American history, the decades prior to the 1890s are especially murky, as a tiny number of Armenians began to form the basis for what would become a more substantial and established community; although the post-1890s decades are hardly well-documented either.

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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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The Blockade of the Lachin Corridor and the Conquest of Nagorno-Karabakh

The Blockade of the Lachin Corridor and the Conquest of Nagorno-Karabakh

This panel was based on the latest special issue of Genocide Studies International, “Nagorno-Karabakh and the Lachin Corridor Crisis,” and features contributors to that issue, which is available from the Zoryan Institute 

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The Fall of Artsakh: Refugee Crisis, Existential Threat, and Uncertain Future

The Fall of Artsakh: Refugee Crisis, Existential Threat, and Uncertain Future

October 1, 2023 online panel discussion, "The Fall of Artsakh: Refugee Crisis, Existential Threat, and Uncertain Future," with a distinguished panel including Vicken Cheterian, Bedross Der Matossian, Nerses Kopalyan, Anna Ohanyan, and David L. Phillips, moderated by Marc A. Mamigonian.

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Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century

Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century

Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2023), edited by Bedross Der Matossian, brings together leading scholars from across disciplines to add to the body of genocide scholarship that is challenged by denialist literature and provides insights into how genocide denial is becoming a fact of daily life in the twenty-first century.

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