Event Videos (2020–2025) — #NAASR
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.
Pavagan E (Enough!) Zabel Yesayanʼs (1878–1943?) Political Thought on Peace, Justice, and Peopleʼs Right to Self-Defense ~ Monday, April 21, 2025
This lecture focused on Armenian feminist writer and activist Zabel Yesayan’s “Pavagan E (Enough!)” published in 1922 in Vienna’s Arek (Sun) monthly.
Nancy Kricorian in Conversation with Nanore Barsoumian ~ Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Nanore Barsoumian and Nancy Kricorian will be discussing Kricorian’s new novel The Burning Heart of the World.
Construction of the Armenian Genocide Denial Narrative ~ Monday, April 14, 2025
This lecture explores the roots of Armenian genocide denialist discourse and its construction as part of the official Ottoman state narrative.
Literary Lights 2025: A Panel Discussion with Wasafiri Armenian Issue Editors and Contributors ~ Saturday, March 22, 2025
Join us for a thought-provoking conversation exploring these questions with contributors to Wasafiri Magazine’s special issue, Armenia(n)s – Elevation.
Arno Babadjanian: An Armenian Beat in Soviet Time ~ Thursday, March 6, 2025
This talk features never-seen-before archival photos, musical analysis of his most notable works, first-hand recollections by his contemporaries, and a full list of his works.
The Library and the Survivor: Aram Andonian in Paris ~ Saturday, March 1, 2025
The history of the Nubar Library, founded in Paris in 1927, is inextricably linked to that of its first librarian, Aram Andonian.