Event Videos (2020–2025)
No End in Sight? Lebanon in Renewed Turmoil
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2020 12pm Eastern, 9am PacificOn Zoom and NAASR's YouTube channel Armenian Studies On August 4, 2020, a massive explosion destroyed Beirut’s port and many neighborhoods in that city. The death toll from the explosion has been marked at upwards of 180 and more than 6,000 casualties have been reported. This explosion hit the already shaky Lebanese socio-political and economic infrastructure which has been weakened by decades of political infighting and collapsing economy, compounded by Covid-19 triggered public health issues. This panel conversation will try to contextualize the recent developments in Lebanon by looking at the country’s socio-political structure, the role of...
TREASURES OF THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN NATION: Spirituality, Art, and Music in Medieval Armenian Manuscripts
Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 3pm Eastern/12pm (noon) Pacific ZOOM and on Society for Armenian Studies You Tube channel Haig Utidjian is an orchestral conductor, chorus master and musicologist. In his native Cyprus he was a pupil of Abp. Zareh Aznaworean of blessed memory, and is a Senior Deacon of the Armenian Church, with research interests in the musicology and theology of the Armenian Hymnal and in the works of St. Gregory of Narek. He was recently decorated with the Komitas medal by the Armenian state and the “Yakob Meghapart” medal by the National Library of Armenia. Dr. Utijian's recent publications...
CULTURAL DESTRUCTION, CULTURAL MEMORY: The Heritage of the Khachkars of Jugha (Old Julfa)
The erasure of Armenian cultural history in Nakhichevan is one of the most underreported acts of cultural destruction in the 21st century. The year 2020 marks the 15-year commemoration of the final phase of this systematic destruction, when in 2005, the Azerbaijani army destroyed with sledgehammers thousands of remaining khachkars in Jugha (Old Julfa) in Nakhichevan, effectively eliminating the last remains of Armenian cultural presence in the region. UNESCO had designated these monuments as Cultural Identity but took no action to protect them.
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.
RACIAL INJUSTICE AND RESPONSIBILITY
TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2020 on Zoom and on St. Leon YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2MMUaAX RACIAL INJUSTICE and RESPONSIBILITY ~ A Discussion MODERATOR Dr Henry Theriault, President, International Association of Genocide Scholars DISCUSSANTS Kohar Avakian, PhD Candidate in American Studies at Yale University Dr. Jermaine McCalpin, Chair of African and African American Studies at New Jersey City University Dr. Michael Rothberg, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and @UCLA The 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies at UCLA When it comes to historical violence and contemporary inequality, none of us are completely innocent. This discussion examined the legacy of racial violence and inequality from...
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