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Fearcatcher | Literary Lights
Join us for the fourth installment of Literary Lights 2026 featuring Naira Kuzmich’s posthumous debut novel, Fearcatcher. Vedran Husić, author and Kuzmich’s former partner, will be joined by writers and editors Aram Mrjoian and Chelsey Kimberly Shannon.
Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
This workshop brings together international scholars from a range of disciplines to explore how and why languages were taught, learned, and sustained across the diverse and shifting socio-cultural landscapes of the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean.
Hampartsum
Join us for an afternoon of storytelling and games in Armenian led by Teni Apelian.
Microhistories of Armenian Early Modernity
This two-day workshop, convened under the auspices of the UCLA Richard Hovannisian Chair of Modern Armenian History, adopts both the extended temporal framework of Armenian early modernity (1512–1789) and its more compressed formulation (c. 1598–1789).
Tiflis: An Illustrated History of Its Armenian Heritage
Please join us for a special presentation by Dr. Hayk Demoyan drawing on his massive publication Тифлис: Иллюстрированная история Армянского наследия (Tiflis: An Illustrated History of Its Armenian Heritage, 2024).
Remain in Light: Editor and Contributors in Conversation
Join us for the third installment of Literary Lights 2026 featuring the editor and poetry contributors of the landmark anthology, Remain in Light: Visions of Homeland and Diaspora.
Once There Was and Was Not
Bring your family and dive into the pages of stories from two special collections; Three Apples Fell From Heaven and Once There Was and Was Not, told by Virginia Tashjian and illustrated by Caldecott Award Winning artist Nonny Hogrogian. With genies, thieves, and even talking fish, these tales will delight all ages. Read and create a craft with us. Recommended for families with children ages 3 and up but all are welcome. Please RSVP to allow for planning and sufficient supplies. Space is limited. You can email dborsuk@minlib.net with any questions.
Sensitive Geographies: Governance, Memory, and the Politics of Visibility in Dersim
This talk examines everyday life, memory, and governance in Dersim (Tunceli, Turkey), a mountainous enclave located between the southern tip of the Armenian highlands and the upper Mesopotamian steppes.
Catholicos and Commissar: The Armenian Church Under the Soviet Regime
Felix Corley's new study, Catholicos and Commissar (London: Gomidas Institute, 2025) offers one of the most comprehensive accounts to date of relations between the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Soviet state, drawing on newly accessible archives from Moscow, Yerevan, and Tbilisi. Corley traces the Church's arc from early post-revolutionary repression - confiscated churches, banned religious education, arrested clergy, and the 1938 NKVD murder of Catholicos Khoren I - through its partial rehabilitation under Stalin's wartime religious recalibration, to the long pontificate of Catholicos Vazgen I (1955-1994), who pursued cautious accommodation while restoring Ejmiatsin's symbolic global centrality. This talk situates Corley's...
Naming Problems: From ‘Islamized’ and ‘Hidden’ to Muslim Armenians in Turkey
This talk examines the label (mis)uses, highlighting shortcomings and ethico-political pitfalls, and suggesting more nuanced ways of approaching this diverse and still vulnerable population.