Prior Years — Armenian Center at Columbia University
STATELESS IN POST-WWII BEIRUT ~ Monday, April 8, 2024 ~ In-Person (New York)
Stateless focuses on two key moments and places of Western Armenian literary history, post-WWI Paris and post-WW II Beirut, to examine how a stateless language sustained itself in a diasporic setting.
OUTCASTING ARMENIANS: Tanzimat of the Provinces ~ Monday, March 18, 2024 ~ In-Person, Columbia
This lecture will reassess the pivotal Ottoman era of Tanzimat, which has a reputation in the historiography as a period of reform and equality.
ARTSAKH: Loss, Trauma, and Restoration ~ Saturday, November 11, 2023 ~ In-Person/On YouTube
SESSIONSSession I: Loss, Trauma, & Public Health
Session II: Words and Discourse
Session III: Cultural Heritage
Session IV: International Law and Restoration
THE RETURN OF THE KINGDOM OF ANI, c.1000 ~ Friday, November 10, 2023 ~ In-Person Event
Inaugural Nina Garsoian Memorial Lecture "The Return of the Kingdom of Ani, c. 1000," by Dr. Christina Maranci Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University
Literary Lights: We Are All Armenian ~Monday, April 3, 2023 ~ In-Person Event
Join us for our next Literary Lights in-person event in New York City, featuring Aram Mrjoian, editor of We Are All Armenian, who will be joined by the anthology’s contributors, Chris Bohjalian, Nancy Kricorian, Scout Tufankjian, and Hrag Vartanian.
ARMENIANS, KURDS, and the EARLY TURKISH REPUBLIC ~ Monday, February 13, 2023 ~ IN Person Event
In person panel discussion on Armenians, Kurds, and the Early Turkish Republic, in person at Columbia University
THE SOVIET EXPERIENCE in ARMENIA and ITS LEGACY: A Panel Discussion ~ Monday, October 31, 2022 ~ IN Person Event NY/NJ
This panel discussion features two scholars from Armenia and two from the Columbia University community.
PETER BALAKIAN/KATHLEEN OSSIP: Launch of "No Sign" ~ Wednesday, March 23, 2022 ~ On Zoom/YouTube
In this new poetry collection, Peter Balakian wrestles with national and global cultural and political realities, including challenges for the human species amid planetary transmutation and the impact of mass violence on the self and culture.
LAWYERS BEYOND BORDERS: Advancing International Human Rights Through Local Laws and Courts ~ Wednesday, October 6, 2021 ~ On Zoom/YouTube
Dr. Maria Armoudian discusses her book Lawyers Beyond Borders: Advancing International Human Rights Through Local Laws and Courts.
IN SEARCH OF 'MONSIEUR PIERRE:' Teotig’s Printed Archive in Exile & the Recovery of Cultural Memory ~ Wednesday, April 28, 2021 ~ On Zoom
In this illustrated presentation, Dr. Davidian follows Teotig’s quest for news and information of his old teacher to its culmination in an article entitled ‘Monsieur Pierre’ («Միւսիւ Բիեռ»), assembled only a few months before his death, and published posthumously in the 1929, and final, edition of his popular Everyone’s Almanac (Ամէնուն տարեցոյցը, 1907-1929).