Prior Years — #NAASRevents

CANCELED Goddard Chapel, Tufts University, 3, The Green, Medford, MA 02155 The Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide at Tufts University: A Day of Remembrance ~ Please join the Tufts community in honoring and recognizing the victims of the Armenian Genocide. Featuring the lecture: Soviet Birdcage for an Orphaned Nation: Two Velvet Revolutions as a Second Chance by Dr. Rouben Shougarian, Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Ambassador Shougarian examines the organic link connecting three key events in Armenia’s Soviet and post-Soviet history: the 50th anniversary of the Genocide observed during student demonstrations behind the iron curtain in Yerevan in 1965; the Revolution of Mathematicians...

POSTPONED NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building, Batmasian Hall (3rd Floor) 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont, MA 02478 Join us for the screening of the film Vahe Oshagan: Between Acts, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Hrayr Eulmessekian, Taline Voskeritchian, and Karen Jallatyan. Vahé Oshagan: Between Acts is a literary biography of the pre-eminent writer and public intellectual of the modern Armenian diaspora. The film infuses the traditional documentary with visual, sound-text, and scholarly interpretations of Oshagan's poetry and prose. It features readings and commentary by Oshagan of his own poetry, as well as analyses by well-known literary critics Krikor Beledian, Krikor Chahinian, and...

POSTPONED to Fall 2020 The presentation undertakes a close reading of a major painting- Provincial Wedding in Moush - by the notable but now forgotten, Constantinople artist Garabed "Charles" Nichanian (1861-1950). Unseen since the last exhibition in Chicago in 1893, the image of this monumental work has survived through a single know photographic reproduction and at least two engravings published in contemporary journals. Moreover two extensive reviews complement the photograph with a plethora of descriptive detail based on direct visual observation of the painting in the company of the artist. Crucially, they also reveal much about the work's reception among...

POSTPONED NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building, Batmasian Hall (3rd Floor) 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont, MA 02478 Join us for a panel discussion on the Adventures With/In the Armenian Language. FEATURING Nancy Kricorian, Kristy Rendahl, and Dahlia Elsayed MODERATED BY: Dr. Lisa Gulesserian SPONSOR National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)

Thursday, March 25, 2020, 7:00-8:30 pm Columbia University, Knox Hall, Room 208 606 West 122nd Street, New York, NY 10027 Between 1885 and 1915, roughly eighty thousand Armenians migrated between the Ottoman Empire and North America. For much of this period, Ottoman state authorities viewed Armenian migrants, particularly those who returned to the empire after sojourns abroad, as a political threat to the empire’s security. In response, Istanbul worked vigorously to prevent Armenians both from migrating to and returning from North America. In response dense smuggling networks emerged to assist migrants in bypassing this migration ban. The dynamics that shaped the evolution...

POSTPONEDCinema Village, 22 East 12th Street, New York, NYTHE 2020 ARMENIAN FILMS at The Socially Relevant Film Festival (SRFF), New YorkFEATURE FILMLORIK | New York Premiere Alexey Zlobin | Armenia | 2018 | 94'A lonely theater actor inhabits a world populated by his past characters as he unexpectedly he finds himself plunged into the realities of the people around him. Experiencing the pain and suffering of others, transforms him from a cynical narcissist into a compassionate and selfless person. When he inhabits the role of a rich oligarch, he exploits this new situation to reach an unexpected outcome. DOCUMENTARY SHORT...

POSTPONEDNAASR Vartan Gregorian Building, Batmasian Hall (3rd Floor), 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont, MA 02478Join us for a report by the Armenia Tree Project on the outcomes of the October 2019 "Forest Summit Global Action and Armenia," which brought local and international experts together for the first time for networking and dialogues about the challenges and opportunities of Armenia's ambitious pledge to double its forest cover by 2050 as part of its commitment to the Paris Agreement. And, hear about next steps for Armenia's future forests. Moderated by: Anna Ohanyan Featuring Panelists Guy Hydrick and Jeanmarie Papelian CO-SPONSORSArmenia Tree ProjectAYF Greater Boston...

POSTPONED to Fall 2020 ISLAM IN ARMENIAN LITERARY CULTURE 7th to 21st Centuries, with Seta Dadoyan Unique patterns of interaction and development distinguished the Armenian experience in the world of Islam from the beginning, yet a large body of the record in the entire Armenian literature remains not only barely studied but also unavailable to scholars in Near/Middle Eastern and interfaith studies. Based on the primary and secondary material from the 660s to the present she has gathered and made available (in her translations), professor Seta B. Dadoyan traces novel paradigms of mutual perceptions and interactions in dynamic historical development...

Sunday, March 8, 2020, at 4:00 p.m. Ararat-Eskijian Museum, Sheen Chapel15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission Hills, CA 91345 Between 1885 and 1915, roughly eighty thousand Armenians migrated between the Ottoman Empire and North America. For much of this period, Ottoman state authorities viewed Armenian migrants, particularly those who returned to the empire after sojourns abroad, as a political threat to the empire’s security. In response, Istanbul worked vigorously to prevent Armenians both from migrating to and returning from North America. In response dense smuggling networks emerged to assist migrants in bypassing this migration ban. The dynamics that shaped the evolution...

Thursday, March 5, 2020 AT 7:45 pmSt. Leon Armenian Church / Abajian Hall 12-61 Saddle River Road, Fair Lawn, NJ MOTHERLAND: Film Screening & Discussion with Filmmaker Jesse Soursourian and Activist Mary Matosian What if healing your country meant that you had to combat traditional gender roles? MOTHERLAND is a short documentary about the women of Artsakh who put themselves at risk to save lives of countless people that use the land to farm, collect wood and attend school.Individually outcast; together, a collective – the deminers support each other as they take on the dangerous role of breaking stereotypes and...