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 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...

This 2026 Armenian Genocide Commemoration special event at Worcester State University will examine Armenian women’s genocide testimony through both traditional archives and “embodied archives.” The program will explore how the history of genocide is preserved not only in documents and recorded narratives, but also through traces left in the memories and on the bodies of its women survivors. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in any lots adjacent to the building.

Join us at the Belmont Public Library for an afternoon of classic Armenian stories and illustrations by Caldecott-winning Armenian-American author and artist Nonny Hogrogian (1932-2024)! We'll read her adaptations of Armenian folktales in English, play games, and and create a craft. This event is open to families with children ages 3 to 10, 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.

Temptations in Ruin examines the political-economic afterlife of the Armeniangenocide in present-day Turkey, focusing on the region of Mus (Moush).Anthropologist Alice von Bieberstein explores how the 1915 genocide anddispossession of Armenians shaped property regimes, citizenship, and economic logics that continue to reverberate today. To tell this history, von Bieberstein introduces the concept of "sovereign accumulation" to describe the ways in which the state and other actors mobilize histories of sovereign violence for present-day economic benefit. This framework illuminates the legacy of violence and resource extraction present in such practices as urban renewal projects, treasure hunting for "Armenian gold," and heritage tourism and identifies these practices' very...

Join us for the second installment of Literary Lights 2026 featuring Rebecca Rose Mooradian, author of the highly anticipated picture book Rose by the Sea, in conversation with fellow writer, Astrid Kamalyan. The virtual event will take place on April 11, 2026, at 10:00 AM Pacific | 1:00 PM Eastern | 9:00 PM Armenia time. Register here. Based on the true story of the author’s great-grandmother, this “affectingly gentle” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) picture book about surviving the Armenian Genocide sparkles with hope and heart even amid unspeakable tragedy. Illustrated by Myo Yim, the book is perfect for readers of The Proudest Blue and Yuyi Morales’s Dreamers....

Diaspora studies tends to emphasize a set of loosely shared commonalities across space and time. This international graduate student workshop leans the other direction, and instead asks: what can aspects of life that are not easily shared across a broader space teach us about the formation and maintenance of “diasporas,” premodern or modern?We invite graduate students and early career scholars (such as postdoctoral fellows within the first three years of completing a dissertation) to explore tensions and overlooked connections across the Armenian diaspora, as well as to envision fresh possibilities for writing local history against a broader geographic, cultural, or...

NAASR and the Belmont Public Library invite you to a reading of Armenian-American Tenny Arlen's posthumously published, bilingual book of poetry To Say With Passion: Why Am I Here? presented by her brother, Dr. Jesse Arlen.

The lecture and exclusive exhibition accompanying it examine the life and intellectual legacy of Garabed Kapikian (1864–1925), a prominent Armenian pedagogue, botanist, lexicographer, ethnographer, politician, and public intellectual from Sepastia (Sivas). The presentation first addresses Kapikian’s scholarly formation, pedagogical career, and political life and struggles, including his engagement as a key member of the Social Democratic Hunchakian Party, situating his work within the Late Ottoman intellectual milieu. Emphasis is placed on his pioneering contributions to Armenian natural history and linguistics, especially his botanical research and lexicographic documentation of the Sepastia dialect, which remain foundational sources in Armenian studies.  Central to...

Last month, at the behest of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI), Dr. Edita Gzoyan, was forced to resign. The reason stated by the Prime Minister was that Gzoyan had engaged in “a provocative act, contrary to the foreign policy pursued by the government” during U.S. Vice President J. D. Vance’s visit to the AGMI in February. The act in question appears to have been giving Vance a tour of the AGMI and presenting him with several publications relating to the Armenian Genocide and violence against Armenians in the early 20th century. In...