Event Videos
Gaslighting the World: How Azerbaijan Falsifies History and Denies Armenian Existence ~ Wednesday, October 16, 2024
The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)Presents the Fifth Annual Prof. Charles B. Garabedian Lecture
Writing Against Stalin's Western City: Mkrtich Armen's Yerevan (1931) and the Specter of the "New East" (Nor Arevelk') ~ Wednesday, October 9, 2024
In his talk, Dr. Leupold will argue that these alternative imaginaries of the urban were informed, in an unexpected dialectical twist, both by retrotopian yearning for a (pre-)colonial past that was coming undone before their eyes and anticipation for a utopian future at a point of post-revolutionary history largely understood by its contemporaries as the dawn of socialist worldmaking.
Azerbaijan and the Destruction of Armenian Civilization ~ Saturday, September 28, 2024
Azerbaijan and the Destruction of Armenian Civilization by Samvel Karapetian and published by Research on Armenian Architecture (RAA) exposes the cultural genocide perpetrated against historical Armenian heritage by Azerbaijan.
Treasures of Areni-1 Cave ~ Thursday, September 26, 2024
Ani Adigyozalyan discussed the many treasures of Armenian culture and ritual discovered in the Areni-1 Cave in Vayots Dzor
LITERARY LIGHTS: Lory Bedikian and Brian Turner ~ Saturday, September 21, 2024
The final installment of the reading series, Literary Lights 2024, features Lory Bedikian, author of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry winner, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body. Bedikian was joined by award-winning poet, essayist and professor, Brian Turner.