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.
In his talk, Dr. Leupold will argue that these alternative imaginaries of the urban were informed, in an unexpected dialectical twist, both byretrotopian yearningfor a (pre-)colonial past that was coming undone before their eyes andanticipation for a utopian futureat a point of post-revolutionary history largely understood by its contemporaries as the dawn of socialist worldmaking.
The final installment of the reading series, Literary Lights 2024, features Lory Bedikian, author of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry winner, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body. Bedikian was joined by award-winning poet, essayist and professor, Brian Turner.
In this illustrated talk, Dr. Khatchig Mouradian explored the memorial book as a literary genre, art, and artifact.
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.
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.
Ani Adigyozalyan discussed the many treasures of Armenian culture and ritual discovered in the Areni-1 Cave in Vayots Dzor
The final installment of the reading series, Literary Lights 2024, features Lory Bedikian, author of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry winner, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body. Bedikian was joined by award-winning poet, essayist and professor, Brian Turner.