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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.