Current Year

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!

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.