Dr. Maghakyan examines the multilayered factors behind such security policies and identifying potential pathways for preempting similar outcomes in Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh.
Prior Years — Center for Near Eastern Studies
Past-Proofing the Future: Theorizing the Erasure of Djulfa, Twenty Years On - December 1, 2025
Book Talk: The Armenian Diaspora Quartet: Nancy Kricorian's Four Novels about Post-Genocide Experience - October 30, 2025
Attend in person at UCLA Bunche Hall, Room 10383 to see Nancy Kricorian present a book talk on Four Novels about Post-Genocide Experience.
Oor Eir Asdvadz? (Where Were You, God?): Armenian Identity Formation, Religious Belief, and Mental Health Amongst Ethnic Armenians in Turkey ~ Tuesday, May 27, 2025 ~ On Zoom
This talk explores the intersection of Armenian ethnic identity, religious belief, and mental health among ethnic Armenians, particularly in Turkey and the USA.
Material Afterlives of Genocide: Violence, Memory, and Landscapes of Ruins in Van ~ Monday, May 12, 2025 ~ In-Person (UCLA Bunche Hall) and on Zoom
This talk focuses on the overlapping histories of the Armenian and Kurdish communities in the region of Van in southeastern Turkey through an exploration of spaces of material ruination.
Armenian Cultural Heritage: Past, Present, and Future ~ Saturday, February 8, 2025 ~ In-Person (Fowler Museum)
Full-day conference that brings together a diverse group of experts to delve into the rich Armenian cultural heritage of the South Caucasus and Eastern Turkey.
An Analytical-Discursive Tripod: The Armenian 'Mahmet', Pax Islamica, and 'Ghuran' ~ Thursday, November 21, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA Bunche Hall) and on Zoom
These are documented accounts of the known, less known and hitherto unknown authors and texts – such as translations of the Qur'ān and polemical side-scripts – about Islam, the Prophet, the Muslims, also terms of relations with the Muslim state and peoples, from the seventh century to the present.
Writing Against Stalin's Western City: Mkrtich Armen's Yerevan (1931) and the Specter of the "New East" (Nor Arevelk') ~ Wednesday, October 9, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA Bunche Center) and On Zoom
In his talk, Dr. Leupold will argue that these alternative imaginaries of the urban were informed, in an unexpected dialectical twist, both by retrotopian yearning for a (pre-)colonial past that was coming undone before their eyes and anticipation for a utopian future at a point of post-revolutionary history largely understood by its contemporaries as the dawn of socialist worldmaking.
“Medieval Knowledge” in Medieval Times in the Mediterranean: An Example of the Kingdom of Cilician Armenia ~ Thursday, May 23, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA) and On Zoom
The main focus of this research is the transformations of spatial and temporal perceptions, communications, and material capital in the Mediterranean environment during the 12th-14th centuries, which had a direct impact on the transformations of the societies of both Western European and Eastern Mediterranean countries.