Event Videos — #NAASR
KINDRED VOICES: A Literary History of Medieval Anatolia
Kindred Voices explores how the region’s Muslim and Christian poets grappled with the multilingual and multi-religious worlds they inhabited, attempting to impart resonant forms of instruction to their intermingled communities.
A LOOK BACK, A LOOK AHEAD: A Conversation with Prof. Taner Akçam
As he prepares to depart from his position as Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University to become the inaugural director of the Armenian Genocide Research Program within the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, Taner Akçam will engage in a conversation with NAASR Academic Director Marc A. Mamigonian that will touch on such topics as the evolution of Akçam’s work, the history and development of Armenian Genocide Studies, the challenges facing the field, and his plans for the future in his new role.
THE UKRAINE WAR AND ARMENIA(NS): Immediate Impacts and Repercussions
Panelists discuss The Ukraine War and Armenia(ns): Immediate Impacts and Repercussions as of March 31, 2022.
EVER-CHANGING BORDERS OF ARMENIA IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES: The Cartographic Record
Exploring maps of Armenia’s changing borders over time reveals significant aspects of Armenian history, culture, and geography from ancient times to the present and is critical to the current territorial debate.
PETER BALAKIAN/KATHLEEN OSSIP: Launch of "No Sign"
In this new poetry collection, Peter Balakian wrestles with national and global cultural and political realities, including challenges for the human species amid planetary transmutation and the impact of mass violence on the self and culture.