Prior Years — #NAASR

In this public forum, Dr. Yeghishe Kirakosyan will discuss the implications of this case and the court’s ruling and share insights into the procedures of the International Court of Justice. Introductory remarks will be offered by Karnig Kerkonian, an international lawyer and professor of international law, who also serves on the Armenian delegation to the International Court of Justice in the case.

To mark the publication of the beautiful Armenian Treasures in Romania (Patrimoniul Eparhiei Armene din România), three of the contributors to the volume, scholars Levon Chookaszian and Claude Mutafian and renowned photographer Hrair Hawk Khatcherian present their work.

Part IV: Armenia on the Brink: Strategies in a Diminishing Landscape, the fourth in the What’s Next series on the post-war Armenian reality.

Focusing on technologies of communication (i.e., manuscripts, print, visual, and digital media) the Technologies of Communication and Armenian Narrative Practices Through the Centuries: International Conference aims to foster an interdisciplinary conversation with researchers working across historical periods around the question of how technologies of communication have impacted Armenian narrative style and practices (such as modes of storytelling, narrative structure, and exegetical principles), and reversely how Armenian narrative practices have shaped each new technology.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
DR. TANER AKÇAM: Director, Armenian Genocide Research Program at the UCLA Promise Armenian Institute
DR. RICHARD HOVANNISIAN: Historian, Professor Emeritus at UCLA
DR. LUSINE SAHAKYAN: Director, Department of Armenian-Ottoman Relations Institute, Yerevan State University

EIU organizes in collaboration with NAASR and Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module "EU, Security and Fundamental Rights" (EUSecJuris), a two-day Summer Institute on the topic of Russia-Ukraine: War, Statecraft, and Shifting Geopolitics in Eurasia.

Launching a new exhibit from the Armenian Image Archive, the panelists will explore the fourteen "Stations of the Cross" along the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, highlighting photographs from the Bonfils Studio in 1875 and new images from photographer Jack Persekian,

Lisa Misakian and Gregory Jundanian share their recent work to document the vibrant Armenian-American community of Whitinsville, which in many ways has much in common with other North American communities where Armenians found and redefined themselves in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The lessons Dr. Pamela Steiner has taken about what might be needed to achieve something positive among Armenians, Turks and Azerbaijanis is pulled together in her recent interdisciplinary book, Collective Trauma and the Armenian Genocide: Armenian, Turkish and Azerbaijani Relations Since 1839.

A conversation with poets Shahé Mankerian and Susan E. Barba.