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Dr. Zarouhi Pogossian focuses on the small, rural settlement of Yeghegis in the Vayots‘ Dzor region as an active node within the Silk Road(s). Yeghegis emerges as a key case study for understanding landscape, power, and mobility.

The Socially Relevant Film Festival highlights filmmakers with compelling, socially relevant, human-interest stories across social issues without resorting to violence or violent storytelling. See more for featured Armenian films.

This Colloquium is an annual international conference for graduate students in the Humanities/Social Sciences to present research pertaining to all aspects of Armenian studies, including but not limited to language, literature, history, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, economics, and art history.

First International Conference of the Medieval Caucasus Network: “Studying Non-Elites in the Medieval Caucasus,” features two days of papers on a variety of topics, from the Caucasian slave trade, to the place of women in medieval Armenian society, to the bioarchaeology of the medieval Caucasus. 

Vahram L. Shemmassian, Ph.D., professor and director of the Armenian Studies Program at CSU, Northridge, presents a lecture on Rev. Dikran Antreasian, his involvement with the Musa Dagh resistance and his impact on the survival of his people in 1915 and beyond.

Artist Levon Kafafian and visual culture scholar Marie-Aude Baronian host a salon-style discussion on Kafafian’s art through the metaphor of weaving as world-building and reflect upon the possibility of making an Armenian future through creative practice.

The UCLA Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies & the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, together with the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) present Marc Nichanian, the renowned philosopher and literary critic, in a film by the multi media conceptual artist Hrayr Ա Eulmessekian. 

Tanya Bartevyan performs Florence Price’s piano sonata and the music of Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee, highlighting multiculturalism, identity, and belonging in these gorgeous, evocative pieces.

Join us for an online book talk of Small States, Russia and the West: Geopolitics and the South Caucasus. Dr. Eduard Abrahamyan investigates the contemporary geopolitics of the Caucasus through a multi-level analysis of regional political transformations.

Join us in an event full of storytelling and art with Tenny Apelian. Children up to 10 are welcome accompanied by an adult!