Prior Years — #NAASR
Conversations on Photography: Images of Global Armenian Life ~ Tuesday, October 29, 2024 ~ In-Person (Project Save)
Erhan Arik will discuss his work from 'Gayan', a book featuring images of modern Armenian life around the world.
Book Talk: An Armenian Futūh Narrative ~ Monday, October 28, 2024 ~ In-Person (Columbia University)
Historians Sergio La Porta and Alison M. Vacca will discuss their English translation of Armenian priest Lewond’s chronicle of 8th century caliphal rule in Armenia.
Classifying the Cartozians: Visibility and Citizenship ~ Thursday, October 24, 2024 ~ In-Person (NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building), on YouTube, and on Zoom
This lecture addresses the politics of visibility and legal belonging by following the Cartozian family—from their sitting for an Ottoman expatriation portrait to exit the Ottoman Empire in 1906 to the family’s own deft use of advertising and portrait photography in the United States.
The International Recognition of the Armenian Genocide: Memorial, Political, and Geopolitical Stakes of a Decades-Long Unfinished Struggle ~ October 23 - 25, 2024 ~ Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation (Yerevan, Armenia)
The central aim of this international conference is to study how and why, since the end of the Second World War and more significantly since the 1960s onwards, international actors have positioned themselves on the matter of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide—as well as how and why their respective positions have evolved over time.
'The Very Limit of Our Endurance': Rev. Hovhannes Eskijian and His Network of Resisters During the Armenian Genocide ~ Friday, October 18, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA Mong Learning Center) and on Zoom
This talk explores the role of Reverend Hovhannes Eskijian and his associates in the underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats who resisted the destruction of the Armenian people during World War I.
Writing Against Stalin's Western City: Mkrtich Armen's Yerevan (1931) and the Specter of the "New East" (Nor Arevelk') ~ Wednesday, October 9, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA Bunche Center) and On Zoom
In his talk, Dr. Leupold will argue that these alternative imaginaries of the urban were informed, in an unexpected dialectical twist, both by retrotopian yearning for a (pre-)colonial past that was coming undone before their eyes and anticipation for a utopian future at a point of post-revolutionary history largely understood by its contemporaries as the dawn of socialist worldmaking.
Treasures of Areni-1 Cave ~ Thursday, September 26, 2024 ~ In-Person (NAASR), on Zoom, and on YouTube
Ani Adigyozalyan will discuss the many treasures of Armenian culture and ritual discovered in the Areni-1 Cave in Vayots Dzor
More Than Bones ~ Monday, September 23, 2024 ~ In-Person (Harvard Science Center)
Come learn about exciting discoveries, some as recent as 2008 when a 5,500-year-old leather shoe was excavated in Armenia!
LITERARY LIGHTS: Lory Bedikian and Brian Turner ~ Saturday, September 21, 2024 ~ On Zoom
The final installment of our reading series, Literary Lights 2024, features Lory Bedikian, author of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry winner, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body. Bedikian will be joined by award-winning poet, essayist and professor, Brian Turner.
The Fresno Premiere Screening of “Strangers in a Promised Land Remastered” ~ Friday, September 20, 2024 ~ In-Person (Fresno State)
A movie screening on the Armenian community in Fresno, California.