Prior Years — Promise Armenian Institute

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. 

Armenian Studies: Evolving Connections and Conversations

The UCLA Promise Armenian Institute regrets to announce that the in-person Undergraduate Colloquium in Armenian Studies, originally scheduled for today, Friday, May 24, 2024, has been postponed . We will be in touch with details in the coming days about rescheduling and appreciate your interest in this event. 

The 8th annual UCLA Undergraduate Colloquium in Armenian Studies will take place on May 24, 2024, in association with UCLA Undergraduate Research Week

In this lecture, Dr. Anna Aleksanyan will discuss how different types of sexual violence, including the right of the first night, affected provincial Armenian life in the 19th century and what was done to prevent these acts of violence.

This all day symposium is dedicated to honoring and celebrating the life and legacy of UCLA Professor Richard G. Hovannisian who was a faculty member at UCLA for over 50 years and was the first holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation Professorial Chair in Modern Armenian History, now named in his honor.