Current Year — Promise Armenian Institute
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-Person (UCLA Bunche Center) and On Zoom
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.
Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) 50th Anniversary Conference Program ~ September 13-15, 2024 ~ In-Person (Harvard University and NAASR)
Armenian Studies: Evolving Connections and Conversations
The 8th Annual UCLA Undergraduate Colloquium in Armenian Studies has been POSTPONED
The UCLA Promise Armenian Institute regrets to announce that the in-person Undergraduate Colloquium in Armenian Studies, originally scheduled for today, Friday, May 24, 2024, has been postponed . We will be in touch with details in the coming days about rescheduling and appreciate your interest in this event.
8th Annual UCLA Undergraduate Colloquium in Armenian Studies ~ Friday, May 24, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA)
The 8th annual UCLA Undergraduate Colloquium in Armenian Studies will take place on May 24, 2024, in association with UCLA Undergraduate Research Week
The Right of the First Night and Sexual Violence Against Armenian Women in the 19th Century ~ Monday, April 29, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA) and on YouTube
In this lecture, Dr. Anna Aleksanyan will discuss how different types of sexual violence, including the right of the first night, affected provincial Armenian life in the 19th century and what was done to prevent these acts of violence.