Join Monuments and Identities in the Caucasus co-editors Dr. Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev (Sofia University) and Haroutioun Khatchadourian (independent researcher) with Dr. Marcello Flores (Università di Siena), who wrote the volume’s Preface and Introduction, respectively. Introductory remarks will be given by Dr. Sebouh D. Aslanian (University of California, Los Angeles).
This presentation by Dr. Elyse Semerdjian outlines the earliest Armenian pilgrimages to the killing fields of Dayr al-Zur (Der Zor) in the Syrian Desert.
The Armenian Social Democrat Hnchakian Party: Politics, Ideology and Transnational History, edited by Bedross Der Matossian, sheds light on the history of the Social Democrat Hnchakian Party, a major Armenian revolutionary party that operated in the Ottoman Empire, Russia, Persia and throughout the global Armenian diaspora.
Literary Lights is a monthly reading series organized by the IALA, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), and the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center. The series features new works of literature by Armenian authors. Each event—held online—will feature a writer reading from their work, followed by a discussion with an interviewer and audience members.
This all day symposium is dedicated to honoring and celebrating the life and legacy of UCLA Professor Richard G. Hovannisian who was a faculty member at UCLA for over 50 years and was the first holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation Professorial Chair in Modern Armenian History, now named in his honor.