Event Videos (2020–2025)
A LOOK BACK, A LOOK AHEAD: A Conversation with Prof. Taner Akçam
As he prepares to depart from his position as Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University to become the inaugural director of the Armenian Genocide Research Program within the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, Taner Akçam will engage in a conversation with NAASR Academic Director Marc A. Mamigonian that will touch on such topics as the evolution of Akçam’s work, the history and development of Armenian Genocide Studies, the challenges facing the field, and his plans for the future in his new role.
RESTITUTION OF PROPERTIES IN TURKEY AFTER 100 YEARS
Ömer Kantik will share the little-known story of legal reform in contemporary Turkey, the ways in which the claims process affects minority communities, the impact of decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, pending judicial actions, and other developments.
THE UKRAINE WAR AND ARMENIA(NS): Immediate Impacts and Repercussions
Panelists discuss The Ukraine War and Armenia(ns): Immediate Impacts and Repercussions as of March 31, 2022.
EVER-CHANGING BORDERS OF ARMENIA IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES: The Cartographic Record
Exploring maps of Armenia’s changing borders over time reveals significant aspects of Armenian history, culture, and geography from ancient times to the present and is critical to the current territorial debate.
PETER BALAKIAN/KATHLEEN OSSIP: Launch of "No Sign"
In this new poetry collection, Peter Balakian wrestles with national and global cultural and political realities, including challenges for the human species amid planetary transmutation and the impact of mass violence on the self and culture.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MATENADARAN AND ITS COLLLECTIONS
In this webinar, the Matenadaran’s Sona Baloyan provides an illustrated introduction to the institution, showcasing not only what may be seen by visitors but also providing a look behind the scenes at this remarkable center of scholarship and preservation.
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.
MEDIEVAL ARMENIA IN LOS ANGELES: Manuscripts at the Getty Museum
In this talk, Dr. Elizabeth Morrison, Senior Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum, discusses the small but important collection of Armenian manuscripts at the Getty.
GENOCIDE EDUCATION IN MASSACHUSETTS: A New Mandate, a New Era, and New Challenges
Panelists discuss how the Massachusetts law mandating genocide education came into being, the challenges overcome to gain its passage, and its potential impact on students and society as a whole.
DAY 2: Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword? Historians, Disputed Ownership of History, and Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus
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