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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.

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.

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...

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.

Dr. Taner Akçam and Law Professor Michael Bazyler, will explore efforts to identify and recover Armenian art looted during the Armenian Genocide, drawing parallels with Nazi-looted art restitution.

This one-day gathering, led by Dr. Talar Chahinian and Dr. Sossie Kasbarian, will bring together scholars from North America and Europe whose research explores the evolving and layered formations of Armenian diaspora life that have emerged over recent decades.

Join us for an engaging discussion on pathways to justice after genocide — exploring reparation, restitution, restoration, and accountability. Event free to the public. Coffee and refreshments to follow. Email Sardarabad@ARFEastUSA.com with any questions.

David Atamian (1892, Behesni–1978, Arlington, Virginia) survived the Armenian Genocide and produced an unparalleled multi-volume journal of the early twentieth century. The manuscript spans more than 10,000 pages in thirteen volumes, covering his youth, the genocide, and the postwar period. He recorded arrests, deportation procedures, police corruption, disease, hunger, and daily survival strategies, often in real time. His postwar entries trace conditions and survivor networks across Aintab, Antioch, Birecik, Dörtyol, Iskenderun, Kilis, Marash, Nizip, Musa Dagh, Suruç, Urfa, and Zeytun. The journals are multilingual (Armenian, Armeno-Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, with several dozen later pages in English) and include a wealth of...

 In recognition of the anniversary of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, the Center for Armenian Studies at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the Armenian Students Cultural Association and the Multidisciplinary Workshop for Armenian Studies, invites the community to the fourth annual Shared Memories: The Armenian Experience Through Objects and Stories. This gathering centers on the power of objects as vessels of memory, survival, and identity. Across generations and geographies, Armenians have preserved history not only through archives and texts, but through everyday items carried, saved, and passed down. Photographs, letters, jewelry, textiles, books, religious objects, and household items often...

In the shadows of Cold War politics, Israel quietly aligned itself with Turkey's denial of the Armenian Genocide. Why, and at what cost? Eldad Ben Aharon's Israeli-Turkish Relations at the End of the Cold War traces Israel's diplomatic maneuvering through key geopolitical events, including Iran's Islamic Revolution, the July 1980 Jerusalem Law, Turkey's September 1980 military coup, and the 1982 FirstLebanon War, alongside its secret dealings with Ankara. He situates these developments within broader regional and global shifts, such as Turkey's 1987 bid to join the European Economic Community, U.S. foreign policy under Ronald Reagan and the early stages of the American "war on terror."  Ben...