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Event Videos (2020–2025) — #NAASR

The United States and the Armenian Genocide: History, Memory, Politics ~ Wednesday, February 19, 2025

The United States and the Armenian Genocide: History, Memory, Politics ~ Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Hybrid book talk by Julien Zarifian, Ph.D, Professor in U.S. History and Civilization at the University of Poitiers, France, and fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France. 


Literary Lights 2025 Launch: Featuring Wasafiri Armenian Issue Editors and Contributors ~ Saturday, February 15, 2025

Literary Lights 2025 Launch: Featuring Wasafiri Armenian Issue Editors and Contributors ~ Saturday, February 15, 2025

Highlighting the launch of our reading series, Literary Lights 2025, featuring Wasafiri Magazine’s special “Armenia(n)s – Elevation” issue editors and contributors.


Armenian Cultural Heritage: Past, Present, and Future ~ Saturday, February 8, 2025

Armenian Cultural Heritage: Past, Present, and Future ~ Saturday, February 8, 2025

Full-day conference that brings together a diverse group of experts to delve into the rich Armenian cultural heritage of the South Caucasus and Eastern Turkey.


An Analytical-Discursive Tripod: The Armenian 'Mahmet', Pax Islamica, and 'Ghuran' ~ Thursday, November 21, 2024

An Analytical-Discursive Tripod: The Armenian 'Mahmet', Pax Islamica, and 'Ghuran' ~ Thursday, November 21, 2024

These are documented accounts of the known, less known and hitherto unknown authors and texts – such as translations of the Qur'ān and polemical side-scripts – about Islam, the Prophet, the Muslims, also terms of relations with the Muslim state and peoples, from the seventh century to the present. 


Recreating Home in Exile: The Armenian Memory Book (Houshamadean) as Artifact and Road Map ~ Thursday, November 14, 2024

Recreating Home in Exile: The Armenian Memory Book (Houshamadean) as Artifact and Road Map ~ Thursday, November 14, 2024

In this illustrated talk, Dr. Khatchig Mouradian explored the memorial book as a literary genre, art, and artifact.

Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908 ~ Monday, November 4, 2024

Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908 ~ Monday, November 4, 2024

İlkay Yılmaz reconsiders the history of two political issues, the Armenian and Macedonian questions, approaching both through the lens of mobility restrictions during the late Ottoman Empire from 1876 to 1908 in her book Ottoman Passports.


'The Very Limit of Our Endurance': Rev. Hovhannes Eskijian and His Network of Resisters During the Armenian Genocide ~ Friday, October 18, 2024

'The Very Limit of Our Endurance': Rev. Hovhannes Eskijian and His Network of Resisters During the Armenian Genocide ~ Friday, October 18, 2024

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.

Writing Against Stalin's Western City: Mkrtich Armen's Yerevan (1931) and the Specter of the "New East" (Nor Arevelk') ~ Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Writing Against Stalin's Western City: Mkrtich Armen's Yerevan (1931) and the Specter of the "New East" (Nor Arevelk') ~ Wednesday, October 9, 2024

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. 

Treasures of Areni-1 Cave ~ Thursday, September 26, 2024

Treasures of Areni-1 Cave ~ Thursday, September 26, 2024

Ani Adigyozalyan discussed the many treasures of Armenian culture and ritual discovered in the Areni-1 Cave in Vayots Dzor

LITERARY LIGHTS: Lory Bedikian and Brian Turner ~ Saturday, September 21, 2024

LITERARY LIGHTS: Lory Bedikian and Brian Turner ~ Saturday, September 21, 2024

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.