Sebouh Aslanian, Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History at UCLA
Stephan Astourian, Director of the Turpanjian Center for Policy Analysis at the American University of Armenia
Artak Beglaryan, Former State Minister of Artsakh and Former Human Rights Ombudsman of Artsakh
Mohamed El-Naggar, Interim Dean of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Ashot Gabrielyan, Citizen Journalist and Educator
Hannah Garry, Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA
Rober Koptas, Author and Former USC Institute of Armenian Studies Visiting Scholar
Josh Kun, USC Vice Provost for the Arts and Professor and Chair in Cross-Cultural Communication
Viet Thanh Nguyen, USC’s Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Pulitzer Prize–winning Author of The Sympathizer
Valentina Ogaryan, Clinical Director at the Simms Mann Center for Integrative Oncology at UCLA
Hrag Papazian, USC Turpanjian Early Career Chair in Contemporary Armenian Studies
Nina Shahverdyan, Educator and Graduate Student at Columbia University
Gegham Stepanyan, Former Human Rights Ombudsman of Artsakh
In light of the ethnic cleansing of the Armenian population of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), the event will offer a platform for prominent figures from academia, the arts, and civil society to reflect on this seismic shift in the Armenian world.
The USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies is hosting a day-long symposium, Artsakh Uprooted: Aftermaths of Displacement, on Saturday, November 2, 2024, at USC’s Bovard Auditorium.
Join us for a day of discussions with leading figures from academia, the arts, and civil society, as we explore the impacts of the ethnic cleansing in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). The symposium will feature firsthand accounts from Artsakh and multidisciplinary insights from USC scholars.
- Former State Minister Artak Beglaryan and former Human Rights Ombudsman Gegham Stepanyan
- Nina Shahverdyan and Ashot Gabrielyan, citizen journalists who were among the only portals into blockaded Artsakh
- Interim Dean of the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences Mohamed El-Naggar
- Viet Thanh Nguyen, USC’s Aerol Arnold Chair of English, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer
- Hrag Papazian, USC’s newly appointed Turpanjian Early Career Chair in Contemporary Armenian Studies, and former Institute Visiting Scholar Rober Koptaş
- Stephan Astourian, Director of the Turpanjian Center for Policy Analysis at the American University of Armenia
- Distinguished contributors from UCLA will include Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History, Sebouh Aslanian, Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights, Hannah Garry, and Clinical Director at the Simms Mann Center for Integrative Oncology Valentina Ogaryan
- Lyoka, a war veteran and rapper from Artsakh, will deliver a live performance that conveys his remarkable life story through raw, heartfelt lyrics.
CO-SPONSORS:
Massis Kabob
USC Visions and Voices
USC Divisional Dean for the Social Sciences
NAASR
Armenian Film Society
UCLA Promise Armenian Institute