Event Videos — Zohrab Information Center
Literary Lights: Taleen Voskuni in Conversation with JP Der Boghossian
Literary Lights is a monthly reading series organized by the International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA), the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), and the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center. Learn more here.
Armenia on the Brink: Strategies in a Diminishing Landscape
Join UK-based Russia and CIS Specialist Lilit Gevorgian, Washington DC-based attorney and former diplomat Armen Kharazian, and UK-based doctoral research fellow and defense analyst Eduard Abrahamyan for Part IV: Armenia on the Brink: Strategies in a Diminishing Landscape, the fourth in the What’s Next series for a roundtable discussions with Q & A on the post-war Armenian reality.
THE MATERIALITY OF ARMENIAN CHRISTIANITY: Gospel Books as Sacred Objects
Based on several years of ethnographic research in Armenia and recent anthropological literature on religion as a sensual and material phenomenon, Konrad Siekierski discusses how Gospel Books (and some other religious texts) make visible the invisible, touchable the untouchable, and – ultimately – reachable the unreachable for Armenian Christians today. He also explores the Armenian veneration of home saints in the context of Soviet and post-Soviet Armenia’s changing socio-political landscape, the decay of traditional village life in the country, and the theft of many privately owned Gospel Books