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KINDRED VOICES: A Literary History of Medieval Anatolia ~ Thursday, April 14, 2022 ~ On Zoom/YouTube
Kindred Voices explores how the region’s Muslim and Christian poets grappled with the multilingual and multi-religious worlds they inhabited, attempting to impart resonant forms of instruction to their intermingled communities.
A LOOK BACK, A LOOK AHEAD: A Conversation with Prof. Taner Akçam ~ Tuesday, April 12, 2022 ~ On Zoom/YouTube
As he prepares to depart from his position as Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair in Armeni-an Genocide Studies at Clark University to become the inaugural director of the Armenian Genocide Research Program within the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, 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.
ANBARDELI ZABEL / UNSTOPPABLE ZABEL / Անպարտելի Զապէլը: A Reading ~ Saturday, April 2, 2022 ~ In Person Event
All ages will enjoy this compelling picture-book biography of the writer and social justice activist Zabel Yessayan, read in Western Armenian by Dr. Lisa Gulesserian, who teaches Western Armenian and Armenian culture courses at Harvard University.
EVER-CHANGING BORDERS OF ARMENIA IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES: The Cartographic Record ~ Saturday, March 26, 2022 ~ On Zoom/YouTube
Saturday, March 26, 2022, at 12:00pm Eastern / 9:00am PacificLive on Zoom. Registration is required and free.Livestream on NAASR's YouTube channel Armenian Studies.This program is made possible through the generous support of the Dadourian Foundation.PRESENTERROUBEN GALICHIAN, Author of Historic Maps of Armenia: The Cartographic Heritage and other worksExploring 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. The 44-day war waged by Azerbaijan and Turkey against Armenia and Artsakh in the fall of 2020 and the ongoing clashes have...
PETER BALAKIAN/KATHLEEN OSSIP: Launch of "No Sign" ~ Wednesday, March 23, 2022 ~ On Zoom/YouTube
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.