Event Videos — Promise Armenian Institute
9th Annual Undergraduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies at UCLA ~ Friday, May 23, 2025

Watch undergraduate students presenting in Undergraduate Research Week, May 23-29, 2025
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.
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.
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.
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.