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Recreating Home in Exile: The Armenian Memory Book (Houshamadean) as Artifact and Road Map ~ Thursday, November 14, 2024 ~ In-Person (NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building), on YouTube, and on Zoom

Recreating Home in Exile: The Armenian Memory Book (Houshamadean) as Artifact and Road Map ~ 	Thursday, November 14, 2024 ~ In-Person (NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building), on YouTube, and on Zoom

In this illustrated talk, Dr. Khatchig Mouradian will explore the memorial book as a literary genre, art, and artifact.

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Artsakh Uprooted: Aftermaths of Displacement ~ Saturday, November 2, 2024 ~ In-Person (USC Dornsife)

Artsakh Uprooted: Aftermaths of Displacement ~ Saturday, November 2, 2024 ~ In-Person (USC Dornsife)

In light of the ethnic cleansing of the Armenian population of the Artsakh, the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies is hosting a daylong symposium featuring prominent figures from academia, the arts, and civil society, who will share their firsthand experiences of conflict, life under blockade, and dispossession.

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Book Talk: An Armenian Futūh Narrative ~ Monday, October 28, 2024 ~ In-Person (Columbia University)

Book Talk: An Armenian Futūh Narrative ~ Monday, October 28, 2024 ~ In-Person (Columbia University)

Historians Sergio La Porta and Alison M. Vacca will discuss their English translation of Armenian priest Lewond’s chronicle of 8th century caliphal rule in Armenia. 

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Classifying the Cartozians: Visibility and Citizenship ~ Thursday, October 24, 2024 ~ In-Person (NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building), on YouTube, and on Zoom

Classifying the Cartozians: Visibility and Citizenship ~ Thursday, October 24, 2024 ~ In-Person (NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building), on YouTube, and on Zoom

This lecture addresses the politics of visibility and legal belonging by following the Cartozian family—from their sitting for an Ottoman expatriation portrait to exit the Ottoman Empire in 1906 to the family’s own deft use of advertising and portrait photography in the United States.

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'The Very Limit of Our Endurance': Rev. Hovhannes Eskijian and His Network of Resisters During the Armenian Genocide ~ Friday, October 18, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA Mong Learning Center) and on Zoom

'The Very Limit of Our Endurance': Rev. Hovhannes Eskijian and His Network of Resisters During the Armenian Genocide ~ Friday, October 18, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA Mong Learning Center) and on Zoom

This talk explores the role of Reverend Hovhannes Eskijian and his associates in the underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats who resisted the destruction of the Armenian people during World War I.

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