Current Year

Alice Ketabgian and Dr. Tamara Ketabgian discuss their historical novel The Mayor of Inebolu. The novel explores complex questions surrounding intermarriage, religious tolerance, wartime trauma, and the historical legacy of Armenian and Turkish relations, asking what does it mean to remember the pain of the past while still looking toward the future?

Join us for the launch of Literary Lights 2026 featuring Peter Balakian, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of New York Trilogy, in conversation with writer, critic, editor and translator, Diana Arterian.

Participants of this workshop will examine a diverse range of photographic genres, from family records to convict photographs, and studio portraits to complicate photography’s role in regulating class and gender dynamics as well as criminality across the region.

Join us at NAASR for the reception of Zabel in Exile. Members of the cast will do a reading, and discussion will follow. 

Join us in an event full of storytelling and art with children's author and illustrator Alik Arzoumanian. Children up to 10 are welcome accompanied by an adult!

Dr. Der Kiureghian tells the story of how the university was established during a most difficult time in the recent history of Armenia, and how it evolved and advanced during the subsequent three decades.

Arakel Minassian discusses the growing and complicated interactions between Eastern and Western Armenian as it stages a discussion on diaspora, home, and the various meanings of Armenianness. This event will feature readings in both Armenian and the English translation.