Event Videos — UCLA Promise Armenian Institute
1860 Gesaria (Kayseri) To Los Angeles 2022: Mapping Culture And Sharing Stories
This special two-day, in person and Zoom event highlighted mid-19th century Armenian life and cultural history featured in the newly translated memoir of Setrak Timourian and his family’s migration from Gesaria (Kayseri) to Los Angeles.
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword? Historians, Disputed Ownership of History, and Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus ~ DAY 1
Examining case studies from Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia to Nagorno Karabakh and its surrounding regions and Nakhijevan in Azerbaijan, scholars present comparative and connective histories of how the historian’s craft and its proponents have been implicated in the incitement of conflict and the destruction of cultural heritage. Topics explored include Soviet nationality policy, the production of national histories for the South Caucasian nationalities, the standardization of curricula of national histories under Soviet and post-Soviet rule, and the destruction of historical monuments.
Aftermath: the Armenian Earthquake of 1988, A Photo Collection by Asadour Guzelian
This webinar includes an introduction to the Armenian Image Archive (AIA) by Carla Garapedian, Ph.D., a survey by Joseph Malikian, Ph.D., of early Armenian photography which will be a focus of research in the AIA, and a presentation of Asadour Guzelian’s photographs, taken on his two trips to Armenia in 1988 and 1989.
Gender & Intersectionality in Post-Soviet Armenia ~ Saturday, October 16, 2021 Panels
PANELS October 16, 2021- EQUITY AND EMPOWERMENT: Creating and Distributing Resources Beyond the Gap
- WAR, TRAUMA, AND DISPLACEMENT: Gender and Building Peace
Gender & Intersectionality in Post-Soviet Armenia ~ Friday, October 15, 2021 Panels
PANELS October 15, 2021
- ARMENIA'S GENDER TROUBLE: Deconstructing "Anti-Genderism" from Historical, Linguistic, and Socio-Cultural Anthroplogical Perspectives
- POLITICS AND REPRESENTATION: Uprooting Secism, Racism, and Homophobia in Education, Decision Making, and Public Discourse