Prior Years — #NAASR
Literary Lights 2025 Launch: Featuring Wasafiri Armenian Issue Editors and Contributors ~ Saturday, February 15, 2025 ~ On Zoom
Join us for the launch of our reading series, Literary Lights 2025, featuring Wasafiri Magazine’s special “Armenia(n)s – Elevation” issue editors and contributors.
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.
Nişo's Flute Documentary Screening ~ Thursday, February 6, 2025 ~ In-Person (St. Leon Armenian Church) and on Zoom
Nişo's Flute tells the moving story of two artists, Nishan Dikran (Master Nişo), an Armenian craftsman of wind instruments who returns to Diyarbakir after surviving the Armenian Genocide, and Zülfü Yokuş (Zilfo), a renowned Kurdish kaval player.
ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DES ETUDES ARMENIENNES ՀԱՅԿԱԿԱՆ ՈՒՍՈՒՄՆԵՐՈՒ ՄԻՋԱԶԳԱՅԻՆ ԸՆԿԵՐԱԿՑՈՒԹԻՒՆ XVIe Conférence générale 9-11 janvier 2025 Université de Genève et Université de Lausanne
Conférences publiques
Jost GIPPERT (Hambourg), Approaching the Early Centuries:
Palimpsests and Their Significance for the History of Armenian Literacy
9 janvier | 9h30 | Genève | Uni Mail, salle MR280
Vahé TOROSYAN (Erevan), The Catholicosate of Ałuank‘
in the Hierarchical Structure of the Armenian Church
10 janvier | 10h00 | Lausanne | Anthropole, salle 1129
Suzan Meryem KALAYCI (Oxford), Dark Times:
Reflections on the Armenian Genocide
11 janvier | 10h00 | Genève | Uni Mail, salle MR280
Yekaterina Bahaturian: A Forgotten Writer and Dramatist from Artsakh ~ Thursday, December 5, 2024 ~ In-Person (NAASR), on Zoom, and on YouTube
This talk will present ongoing research on the life and work of Yekaterina Bahaturian (1870-1944) who grew up in Shushi, then a provincial center of the Russian Empire.
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.
Strangers in a Promised Land ~ Friday, November 15, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA James Bridges Theater)
A screening of the remastered 1984 documentary about the struggles of Armenian immigrants arriving in California in the early 1900s, followed by a discussion with prominent member of the Fresno Armenian community Mr. Bryan Bedrosian, and Carla Garapedian, Ph.D. of the Armenian Film Foundation.
Recreating Home in Exile: The Armenian Memory Book (Houshamadean) as Artifact and Road Map ~ Thursday, November 14, 2024 ~ In-Person (NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building), on YouTube, and on Zoom
In this illustrated talk, Dr. Khatchig Mouradian will explore the memorial book as a literary genre, art, and artifact.
Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908 ~ Monday, November 4, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA Bunche Hall) and on Zoom
İlkay Yılmaz reconsiders the history of two political issues, the Armenian and Macedonian questions, approaching both through the lens of mobility restrictions during the late Ottoman Empire from 1876 to 1908 in her book Ottoman Passports.
Artsakh Uprooted: Aftermaths of Displacement ~ Saturday, November 2, 2024 ~ In-Person (USC Dornsife)
In light of the ethnic cleansing of the Armenian population of the Artsakh, the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies is hosting a daylong symposium featuring prominent figures from academia, the arts, and civil society, who will share their firsthand experiences of conflict, life under blockade, and dispossession.