Prior Years — #NAASRevents

Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 7:30 pm NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building, Batmasian Hall 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont, MA 02478 Please join us for the first lecture as we move into our new building. A reception will take place after the program in the Shahinian Solarium. Located at the crossroads of Europe and the Middle East, the Armenian Highland (Historic Armenia) served as a transition corridor for major waves of prehistoric and historic migrations. The genetic history of Armenians as an indigenous population of the region attracts keen scientific interest to resolve the puzzle of ancient Middle Eastern populations’ expansion and...

Reclaiming Collective Memories in Contemporary Turkey November 20, 2019, 7:00-8:30 pm  Columbia University, Room TBA, New York, NY Join us for a panel discussion on "Reclaiming Collective Memories in Contemporary Turkey" featuring five artists, writers, and scholars. Marianne Hirsch teaches Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at Columbia. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former President of the Modern Language Association of America. Hirsch’s work combines feminist theory with memory studies, particularly the transmission of memories of violence across generations. Her recent books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After...

Armenian Genealogy Conference: Fresno Sunday, November 17, 2019, 1:30-4:30 pm Armenian Community Center 2348 Ventura Street, Fresno, CA 93721   SPEAKERS George Aghjayan, Mark Arslan, and Levon Yepiskoposyan   TOPICS Finding Genealogical Resources Researching Kharpert and Kharpertsis Conducting Genetic Research   CO-SPONSORS ARF Fresno Hamazkayin Central Houshamadyan Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives National Association for Armenian Studies and Research - NAASR Western Armenia Committee Click here for flyer

ARMENIAN GENEALOGY CONFERENCE / LA AreaFRIDAY, November 15, 2019: Welcome dinner and networkingSATURDAY, November 16: 8am-9am Check-in and Registration    9am-5pm Conference At the Armenian Mesrobian School, 8420 Beverly Road, Pico Rivera, CA 90660 Click here for Armenian Genealogy Conference website. Click here for the Armenian Genealogy Conference/LA Welcome Dinner flyer. Click here for the Armenian Genealogy Conference/LA flyer. PROGRAM: Welcome, introductory remarks and overview of the day’s scheduleGeorge Aghjayan and Tracy Rivest KeeneyHistory of Armenian Genealogical Society, the current state, and future direction - George AghjayanGenealogy of Armenian Recipes; Mapping the Armenian Homeland Mari FirkatianA map of any modern-day country...

Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 6:00-7:30 pm Columbia University, Knox Hall 207, 606 West 122nd Street, New York, NY 10027 A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States (Princeton University Press, 2019) Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into close to 200 independent countries with laws and constitutions proclaiming human rights—a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably developed together. But the reality is far more problematic, as Eric Weitz shows in this compelling global history of the fate of human rights in a world of nation-states. Eric D....

Christianity in the Middle East Today: Challenges Facing Declining Communities ~ a lecture by Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian Wednesday, October 30, 2019, at 7:00-8:30 pm  Columbia University, Room TBA,  New York, NY The Middle East is the cradle of Christianity and multi-ethnic Christian communities are amongst the most ancient natives in the region. Four of the five most important hierarchical centres in Christianity are in the Middle East today whose roots go back two millennia. While small in numbers relative to global Christianity, communities in the Middle East have ecclesial significance for the wider Christian world. This talk will discuss the many...

A Pilgrims Guide to Ancient Armenia: A celebration of the Armenia that avoided destruction: the monuments, the churches and Armenians who persevered in the face of persecution.Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 7:45 pmSt. Leon Church Abajian Hall, 12-61 Saddle River Road, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410Explore Western Armenia and the First Armenian Republic with author-photographer Matthew Karanian and chart your journey to the ancient Armenian lands of Yerevan, Gyumri, Kars, Ani, Van, Bitlis, Diyarbakir, Erzerum, Kharpert and Sebastia.Join Matthew Karanian as he brings together the power of the Armenian past with its material presence today through a masterful combination of story-telling and...

The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province, 1895-1930Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 7 :00 - 8:30 pm Columbia University, Knox Hall 208, 606 West 122nd Street, New York, NY 10027 This lecture explores the issues of deportation, genocide, and property seizure by concentrating particularly on the city of Aintab, focusing on the local historiography, and drawing upon Armenian and Ottoman-Turkish sources, as well as other archival materials. While Aintab’s Armenians were not unique and shared the same painful fate of other Armenian communities across Asia Minor, Aintab provides a microcosm that allows us to examine the local forces...

Reparations and the Politics of Avoidance and Denial Columbia University, Knox Hall Room 208, 606 West 122nd Street, New York, NY 10027 Thursday, October 17, 2019, 6:00 - 7:30 pm In this talk titled "Reparations and the Politics of Avoidance and Denial," Dr. Jermaine McCalpin will discuss the avoidance, denial, and reparations for slavery in the U.S. and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. Dr. Jermaine McCalpin is currently Chair of the African and African- American Studies Program at New Jersey City University. He received his B.Sc. in Political Science and International Relations and M.Sc. from the University of the West Indies,...

Vahé Oshagan: Between Acts 7:00 pm, Wednesday, October 12, 2019 Columbia University in New York - Knox Hall 208, 606 West 122nd Street, New York, NY Vahé Oshagan: Between Acts is a literary biography of the preeminent 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, Marc Nichanian; and electronic compositions by Ohannes Salibian.A discussion with filmmaker Hrayr Eulmessekian will follow.Questions? Email...