Prior Years — Elyse Semerdjian
April 24: The Origins of Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day ~ Thursday, April 24, 2025 ~ In-Person (NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building), on Zoom, and on YouTube
This lecture will outline the genesis of Armenian Genocide Commemoration Day on April 24.
Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) 50th Anniversary Conference Program ~ September 13-15, 2024 ~ In-Person (Harvard University and NAASR)
Armenian Studies: Evolving Connections and Conversations
BONE MEMORY: Armenian Pilgrimages to the Killing Fields of Dayr al-Zur ~ Sunday, April 21, 2024 ~ In Person: LA / On YouTube
This presentation by Dr. Elyse Semerdjian outlines the earliest Armenian pilgrimages to the killing fields of Dayr al-Zur (Der Zor) in the Syrian Desert.
SIFTING THROUGH REMNANTS: Excavating the Voiced of Armenian Women Survivors in a Mutilated Archive ~ Wednesday, April 3, 2024 ~ In-Person: Cambridge, MA
Learn about Prof. Elyse Semerdjian’s work in gathering individual memories and archival fragments of women survivors, offering a feminist interpretation of the Armenian Genocide and issuing a call to break open the archival record to embrace affect and memory.
FROM DISSERTATION to MONOGRAPH: Demystifying the Process ~ Saturday, November 18, 2023 ~ On Zoom
This panel brings together four scholars in Armenian Studies and an audience of recent PhDs to discuss the process of revising a dissertation, finding a publisher, and preparing a manuscript.
MARIAM'S TATTOOS: The Afterlives of a Humanitarian Photograph ~ Wednesday, November 15, 2023 ~ On Zoom
Dr. Elyse Semerdjian will discuss her book Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide wherein tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal the larger history of gender and genocide. In this talk she will focus her discussion on contextualizing a single 1919 humanitarian portrait of a young woman named Mariam Azarian.