Prior Years — #NAASR
A LOOK BACK, A LOOK AHEAD: A Conversation with Prof. Taner Akçam ~ Tuesday, April 12, 2022 ~ On Zoom/YouTube
As he prepares to depart from his position as Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair in Armeni-an Genocide Studies at Clark University to become the inaugural director of the Armenian Genocide Research Program within the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, Akçam will engage in a conversation with NAASR Academic Director Marc A. Mamigonian that will touch on such topics as the evolution of Akçam’s work, the history and development of Armenian Genocide Studies, the challenges facing the field, and his plans for the future in his new role.
ANBARDELI ZABEL / UNSTOPPABLE ZABEL / Անպարտելի Զապէլը: A Reading ~ Saturday, April 2, 2022 ~ In Person Event
All ages will enjoy this compelling picture-book biography of the writer and social justice activist Zabel Yessayan, read in Western Armenian by Dr. Lisa Gulesserian, who teaches Western Armenian and Armenian culture courses at Harvard University.
EVER-CHANGING BORDERS OF ARMENIA IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES: The Cartographic Record ~ Saturday, March 26, 2022 ~ On Zoom/YouTube
Saturday, March 26, 2022, at 12:00pm Eastern / 9:00am PacificLive on Zoom. Registration is required and free.Livestream on NAASR's YouTube channel Armenian Studies.This program is made possible through the generous support of the Dadourian Foundation.PRESENTERROUBEN GALICHIAN, Author of Historic Maps of Armenia: The Cartographic Heritage and other worksExploring maps of Armenia’s changing borders over time reveals significant aspects of Armenian history, culture, and geography from ancient times to the present and is critical to the current territorial debate. The 44-day war waged by Azerbaijan and Turkey against Armenia and Artsakh in the fall of 2020 and the ongoing clashes have...
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.
ARMENIAN FILMS PROGRAM at 2022 Socially Relevant Film Festival New York ~ March 16-27, 2022 ~ In Person/Online
The 2022 Armenian Films Program at the Socially Relevant Film Festival New York
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE MATENADARAN AND ITS COLLECTIONS ~ Saturday, March 12, 2022 ~ On Zoom/YouTube
In this webinar, the Matenadaran’s Sona Baloyan will provide an illustrated introduction to the institution, showcasing not only what may be seen by visitors but also providing a look behind the scenes at this remarkable center of scholarship and preservation.
EASTERN TRADE and THE MEDITERRANEAN in THE MIDDLE AGES: Pegolotti’s Ayas-Tabriz Itinerary and Its Commercial Context ~ Friday, March 4, 2022 ~ On Zoom/YouTube
In this lecture Thomas Sinclair will look at the most prosperous period of east-west trade through Armenia—the period of the Il-Khans—in the second half of the Middle Ages (1100-1500), and within that period at the most important avenue of trade. It ran from Ayas in the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia to the city of Sivas/Sebasteia, then through Armenia to the Il-Khanid capital of Tabriz.
1860 GESARIA (KAYSERI) TO LOS ANGELES 2022: Mapping Culture & Sharing Stories ~ February 26-27, 2022 ~ In Person/On Zoom
This special two-day, in person and Zoom event will highlight mid-19th century Armenian life and cultural history featured in the newly translated memoir of Setrak Timourian and his family’s migration from Gesaria (Kayseri) to Los Angeles.
MEDIEVAL ARMENIA in LOS ANGELES: Manuscripts at the Getty Museum ~ Tuesday, February 15, 2022 ~ On Zoom/YouTube
Dr. Elizabeth Morrison, Senior Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will discuss the small but important collection of Armenian manuscripts at the Getty.
Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword? Historians, Disputed Ownership of History, and Ethnic Conflict in the South Caucasus ~ Friday/Saturday January 28-29, 2022 ~ On Zoom/YouTube
Examining case studies from Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia to Nagorno Karabakh and its surrounding regions and Nakhijevan in Azerbaijan, scholars will present comparative and connective histories of how the historian’s craft and its proponents have been implicated in the incitement of conflict and the destruction of cultural heritage.