Current Year
Gaslighting the World: How Azerbaijan Falsifies History and Denies Armenian Existence ~ Wednesday, October 16, 2024 ~ In-Person (NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building), on YouTube, and on Zoom
The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)Presents the Fifth Annual Prof. Charles B. Garabedian Lecture
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.
Azerbaijan and the Destruction of Armenian Civilization ~ Saturday, September 28, 2024 ~ On Zoom and on YouTube
Azerbaijan and the Destruction of Armenian Civilization by Samvel Karapetian and published by Research on Armenian Architecture (RAA) exposes the cultural genocide perpetrated against historical Armenian heritage by Azerbaijan.
Treasures of Areni-1 Cave ~ Thursday, September 26, 2024 ~ In-Person (NAASR), on Zoom, and on YouTube
Ani Adigyozalyan will discuss the many treasures of Armenian culture and ritual discovered in the Areni-1 Cave in Vayots Dzor
More Than Bones ~ Monday, September 23, 2024 ~ In-Person (Harvard Science Center)
Come learn about exciting discoveries, some as recent as 2008 when a 5,500-year-old leather shoe was excavated in Armenia!