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THE PRINCE OF WENTWORTH STREET: An American Boyhood in the Shadow of Genocide

THE PRINCE OF WENTWORTH STREET: An American Boyhood in the Shadow of Genocide

John Christie will present his memoir, The Prince of Wentworth Street: An American Boyhood in the Shadow of Genocide, about growing up in Dover, NH, in the 1950s and 1960s. John grew up next door to his grandmother, Rose Banaian, who was a survivor of the Armenian Genocide of the early 20th century in which 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Empire.

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The Armenian Cultural Heritage of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)

The Armenian Cultural Heritage of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
CHRISTINA MARANCI, Dadian-Oztemel Professor of Armenian Art and Architecture, Tufts University

PRESENTERS
PATRICK DONABEDIAN, Faculty Member, Histoire de l'art et archéologie, Aix-Marseille Université
TAMARA MINASYAN, Matenadaran/Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts (with translation by Sona Baloyan)
HAMLET PETROSYAN, Head of the Department of Cultural Studies of Yerevan State University and Head of Artsakh Archaeological Expedition

Photos: 13th century fresco from Dadivank' (Shahen Mkrtchian, Treasures of Artsakh

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NAGORNO-KARABAKH/ ARTSAKH IN THE MEDIA: Perspectives from Around the Globe

NAGORNO-KARABAKH/ ARTSAKH IN THE MEDIA: Perspectives from Around the Globe

Join scholars Maria Armoudian, Stephan Astourian, Ayda Erbal, Ohannes Geukjian, and Emil Sanamyan for a discussion moderated by Marc Mamigonian on the coverage of the war on Artsakh in the international media from Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, the Middle East, and the West.

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Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh and the Palimpsests of Conflict, Violence, and Memory

Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh and the Palimpsests of Conflict, Violence, and Memory

Organized by the Armenian Studies Center at UCLA's Promise Armenian Institute, this Zoom-held international conference on the region's troubled history seeks to raise critical awareness of the complex and variegated history behind the current violence. The gathering will be the first of its kind to frame the conflict around its “deep” history, revealing its Soviet, Ottoman, and more recent geopolitical layers.

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The Dildilians: A Story of Photography and Survival

The Dildilians: A Story of Photography and Survival

A virtual film screening and discussion of "The Dildilians: A Story of Photography and Survival," a documentary capturing the way of life in Anatolia, Turkey prior to the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The story is told through the voices of family descendants of the Dildilians, a family of remarkable photographers, and supplemented with historical photographs and documents from the family archive. 

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