Current Year
'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.
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