Event Videos — #NAASR
9th Annual Undergraduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies at UCLA ~ Friday, May 23, 2025

Watch undergraduate students presenting in Undergraduate Research Week, May 23-29, 2025
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.
Literary Lights 2025: Featuring Gregory Djanikian ~ Saturday, May 10, 2025

With Nostalgia for the Future: New and Selected Poems, 1984-2023, award-winning poet Gregory Djanikian returns to the literary scene with a collection that spans and celebrates his prolific career.
April 24: The Origins of Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day ~ Thursday, April 24, 2025

This lecture outlined the genesis of Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day on April 24.