Cummings Foundation Grant Recipient

Current Year — UCLA Promise Armenian Institute

EMPIRE OF QUESTIONS: The Late Ottoman Empire and Dersim '38 ~ Friday, March 15, 2024 ~ In Person: UCLA/On Zoom/YouTube

EMPIRE OF QUESTIONS: The Late Ottoman Empire and Dersim '38 ~ Friday, March 15, 2024 ~ In Person: UCLA/On Zoom/YouTube

Join us as we examine the emergence of various groups as “questions” within the overarching Eastern Question and trace their subsequent solutions through various means of coerced homogenization in the global context of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century racial thinking.

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OUTCASTING ARMENIANS: Tanizimat of the Provinces ~ Tuesday, March 5, 2024 ~ In Person, UCLA/On Zoom/YouTube

OUTCASTING ARMENIANS: Tanizimat of the Provinces ~ Tuesday, March 5, 2024 ~ In Person, UCLA/On Zoom/YouTube

This hybrid lecture will discuss the pivotal Ottoman era of Tanzimat not just through use of the Ottoman Archives, but also a far less known but just as important source, that of the Armenian Patriarchate.

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21st Annual GRADUATE STUDENT COLLOQUIUM in ARMENIAN STUDIES ~ Friday, February 16, 2024 ~ In-Person

21st Annual GRADUATE STUDENT COLLOQUIUM in ARMENIAN STUDIES  ~ Friday, February 16, 2024 ~ In-Person

This Colloquium is an annual international conference for graduate students in the Humanities/Social Sciences to present research pertaining to all aspects of Armenian studies, including but not limited to language, literature, history, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, economics, and art history.

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