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New Armenian Community Projects Funded by Mass Humanities Grants
(Northampton, MA – Sept. 22, 2022) — Mass Humanities announced today it has awarded $713,876 in Expand Massachusetts Stories (EMS) grants to 42 cultural nonprofit organizations across the Commonwealth, including to NAASR and the Armenians of Whitinsville. The funded projects will surface new narratives about the people and ideas that shape Massachusetts. The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) was awarded $9,570 for their project, Exploring Hybrid Identities of Armenian-Americans in Mass. The project will support a series of public programs on Armenian- American identities and how they interact with the diverse community of Massachusetts. The project will...
Armenians Together
The Greater Boston Armenian-American community strongly supports:- The inalienable right of the Armenians of the Republic of Artsakh to self-determination and a peaceful life in their ancestral homeland
- The inviolability of the territorial integrity of the Republic of Armenia
NAASR Statement Regarding the September 13, 2022, Attack on Armenia
The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) joins with many others around the world who have expressed their concern about and condemnation of the attack by the Republic of Azerbaijan on Armenia’s territory, including the civilian population, on September 13, 2022. ... As an organization dedicated to scholarship and education, we call on all parties to condemn this act of aggression and to seek diplomatic solutions to this conflict.
NAASR Receives NEH Preservation Assistance Grant
The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) is proud to announce that it is a recipient of a Preservation Assistance Grant for Smaller Institutions from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of its efforts to safeguard the important and rare holdings in its Edward and Helen Mardigian Library. The grant will support a general preservation assessment and the purchase of rehousing supplies.
NAASR 68th Annual Assembly of Members ~ Saturday, November 5, 2022 ~ On Zoom
Featured Speaker: Dr. Asya Darbinyan, Visiting Professor in Armenian Genocide Studies, Strassler Center, Clark University, presents “The Russian Empire and Armenian Refugees (1914-1917): New Insights from the Archives”
The general public is invited to attend via NAASR's YouTube channel Armenian Studies. NAASR Members, please register on Zoom in order to vote.
IN MEMORIAM: PROF. NINA G. GARSOIAN 1923-2022
NAASR joins with a community of scholars and friends around the world who mourn the passing of one of the titans of the field of Armenian Studies: Prof. Nina G. Garsoian 1923-2022). No short overview can do justice to Prof. Garsoian’s enormous contributions as a researcher, teacher, mentor, and exemplar.
Treasures of NAASR's Mardigian Library ~ "Having a Grand Time:" Armenian Summer Resorts in the Catskills, Revisited
Wherever you are reading this, it is probably hot—perhaps very hot—so we thought a getaway to a cool, shady place with the chance of a swim might provide some relief, and it is in that spirit that we offer a Treasures of NAASR's Mardigian Library mini-feature on Armenian summer resorts in the Catskills of days gone by.
Response to Margolin’s Paean to Azerbaijan in the Online Magazine The Tablet
What possessed The Tablet, “a daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture,” to publish filmmaker François Margolin’s ludicrous paean to Azerbaijan, “In the West Bank of the Caucasus”, which has precious little in it that is Jewish, news, ideas, or culture?
NAASR TO PRESENT FIRST ANNUAL VARTAN GREGORIAN LECTURE
The annual NAASR lecture bearing his name will present cutting-edge Armenian Studies scholarship that intersects with some of the many areas that interested Vartan Gregorian as a scholar, such as Armenians in the Near East and the Muslim world, particular Iran; books and libraries; immigration; education; and more.
Treasures of NAASR's Mardigian Library ~ The Avedis Derounian (John Roy Carlson) Archive: A Selection
In the late 1930s and 1940s Armenian-American author and journalist Avedis Derounian (1909-91) went underground and infiltrated and collected materials on the full spectrum of U.S.-based extremist groups.