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Literary Lights: Peter Balakian - February 8, 2026
Featured Speakers: Peter Balakian Diana Arterian Date: Sunday February 8, 2026 1:00 PM Eastern | 10:00 AM Pacific About: Join us for the launch of Literary Lights 2026 featuring Peter Balakian, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of New York Trilogy, in conversation with writer, critic, editor and translator, Diana Arterian. In an inventive, elliptical language, New York Trilogy explores one man’s journey from the late 1960s to the twenty-first century, as he moves through a series of experiences centered in New York City and the surrounding New Jersey Palisades. Throughout this long poem in three parts, the protagonist’s life is impacted by historical events including the Armenian Genocide,...
Anastas Mikoyan: An Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin - November 16, 2025
Featured Speaker: Dr. Pietro A Shakarian Date: Sunday, November 16th Join Pietro A. Shakarian for a book talk on Anastas Mikoyan, a key figure in Soviet politics, from the Lenin to Brezhnev eras. Sponsored by:NAASR / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lecture Series on Contemporary Armenian Issues and the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS)
PORTRAITS OF UNBELONGING: Photography, the Ottoman State, and the Making of Armenian Emigrants, 1896-1908
Portraits of Unbelonging investigates the history of Ottoman Armenian emigration from the Ottoman east to the United States from the politically fraught and often violent 1890s to the end of Abdülhamid II's reign in 1909.
ARMENIA REPORT: Flare-up on the Armenia-Azerbaijan Border
Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Stonehill College Dr. Anna Ohanyan moderated a panel discussion on the flare-up on the Armenia-Azerbaijan border with panelists Antranig Kasbarian, Arsen Kharatyan, and Maria Tititzian. This webinar was sponsored by the NAASR / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Series on Contemporary Armenian Issues.
SETTING THE AGENDA: Genocide Studies Today and the Place of the Armenian Genocide
Dr. Henry Theriault, then recently elected as President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), in conversation with NAASR's Director of Academic Affairs Marc Mamigonian, discusses the state of genocide studies today and the place of Armenian Genocide studies within the field as a whole.
The First Republic of Armenia and Its Importance Today
The First Republic of Armenia and Its Importance Today
Dr. Richard G. Hovannisian
December 3, 2015 at the First Armenian Church of Belmont, Belmont, MA
Organizer
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
Co-Sponsors
Armenian Assembly of America
Armenian National Committee, Eastern Massachusetts
First Armenian Church
Hamazkayin Armenian Cultural and Educational Society
New Discoveries at Ani Cathedral
Hidden for centuries under whitewash, the paintings of the apse of Ani Cathedral, one of the most famous of Armenian churches, were barely known by scholars. Image software technology has now brought many more details of the composition to light, enough to identify the scene as a beautiful Vision of Ezekiel. It has also revealed an apse inscription on the south wall.
The Historic Armenian Presence in Nagorno-Karabagh: Documentation and Falsification
Lecture given in memory of Dr. Moorad Mooradian, NAASR Board Member, 1991-2004 at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont, MA 02478
Trend or Exception? Democratization in Armenia and Authoritarianism Worldwide
At a time when there is great concern over the apparent decline of liberal democracy around the world, in 2018 Armenia seemed to be a notable exception and was hailed as “badly needed good news for democracy” by the Washington Post.
Gha-ra-bagh! The National Democratic Movement in Armenia (1997)
Mark Malkasian discusses Gha-ra-bagh! The Emergence of the National Democratic Movement in Armenia, which chronicles the initial stages of the former Soviet Union's first mass national democratic movement. The popular ground swell, which came to be known as the Karabagh movement, transformed the political consciousness of Soviet Armenians and led them to challenge the legitimacy of the Soviet system.