Prior Years — #NAASR
THE BALAYANS: Ottoman Architecture and Balyan Archive ~ Thursday, May 18, 2023 ~ On Zoom/YouTube
In 2021, Büke Uras published his most comprehensive publication to date, “Balyans, Ottoman Architecture and Balyan Archive.” The Mayor of Istanbul financed the 3rd and 4th editions of the book and decided it to be the official diplomatic gift of Istanbul Municipality, a first in Republic’s history for an item of Armenian subject.
LITERARY LIGHTS: American Wildflowers ~ Wednesday, May 17, 2023 ~ In-Person Event
Literary Lights is a monthly reading series organized by the International Armenian Literary Alliance (IALA), NAASR, and the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center. The series, which launched in February 2023, will be held through November 2023, in a mixed online and in-person format.
MORGENTHAU: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty ~ Thursday, May 11, 2023 ~ In-Person/On Zoom/YouTube
With unprecedented, exclusive access to family archives, award-winning journalist and biographer Andrew Meier vividly chronicles how the Morgenthaus amassed a fortune in Manhattan real estate, advised presidents, advanced the New Deal, exposed the Armenian Genocide, rescued victims of the Holocaust, waged war in the Mediterranean and Pacific, and, from a foundation of private wealth, built a dynasty of public service.
Honoring Christina Maranci, Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies, Harvard ~ Saturday, May 6, 2023 ~ In-Person Ticketed Event
Sponsorship Levels & Tickets for Honoring Christina Maranci, Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies, Harvard ~ Saturday, May 6, 2023. NAASR was launched in March 1955 to pursue a bold vision of promoting Armenian Studies by establishing endowed chairs at foremost universities in the United States. NAASR achieved this ambitious goal by establishing the first chair in Armenian Studies, at Harvard University. In 1959 we marked the successful conclusion of our Harvard Chair campaign at a gala in Memorial Hall. The Mashtots Chair was the first at Harvard to be endowed by a community organization.
A Call for Rain / Գարունը եկաւ ամպերով, Ամպերը եկան անձրեւով, Storytelling, Songs, and Games in Armenian ~ Sunday, April 30, 2023 ~ In-Person Event
NAASR's ԱԲԳ for Children, presents A Call for Rain / Գարունը եկաւ ամպերով, Ամպերը եկան անձրեւով, Storytelling, Songs, and Games in Armenian for children of all ages and their families.
Literary Lights: We Are All Armenian ~ Saturday, April 29, 2023 ~ On Zoom
We Are All Armenian is a groundbreaking collection of personal essays–by established and emerging Armenian voices–exploring the multilayered realities of life in the Armenian diaspora.
THE HORRORS OF ADANA: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century ~ Friday, April 28, 2023 ~ In-Person/On Zoom/YouTube
The Horrors of Adana offers one of the first close examinations of these events, analyzing sociopolitical and economic transformations that culminated in a cataclysm of violence. Drawing on primary sources in a dozen languages, he develops an interdisciplinary approach to understand the rumors and emotions, public spheres and humanitarian interventions that together informed this complex event.
WITNESSING the ARMENIAN MASSACRES ~ The Story of a Physician, a Poet, an a Book of Poems: Dr. Diran Balakian, Siamanto, and Bloody News from My Friend ~ Thursday, April 27, 2023 ~ In-Person/On Zoom/YouTube
Peter Balakian will discuss the book of poems Bloody News from My Friend by Siamanto (1878-1915). Dr. Diran Balakian, Peter Balakian’s grandfather, at the time of the 1909 Adana massacres was working as a physician tending to the wounded and was also an eyewitness to the atrocities.
FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS:" How Denial Turns Facts Into Opinions and Erodes Truth ~ Monday, April 24, 2023 ~ In-Person NY Area Event
This presentation will focus on several efforts since 2019 to continue and expand the long-running project of Armenian Genocide denial and will also discuss how it dovetails with the efforts of Azerbaijan to rewrite history as a means to dictate Armenia’s future but also its past.
EMERGING From The GENOCIDE'S SHADOW: Stories of Armenian Resilience ~ Sunday, April 23, 2023 ~ In-Person Event
Dr. Khatchig Mouradian is the author of the award-winning book The Resistance Network:The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 (Michigan State University Press, 2021).