Prior Years — Promise Armenian Institute
Bir Arşiv: Emval-i Metrukelerin Açık Artırma ile Satış İlanları (The Auctioning of Stolen Armenian Properties: Emval-i Metruke) - September 18, 2025
Sait Çetinoğlu and Taner Akçam present an archive of digitized advertisements from the 1920s and 1930s of the confiscated properties of Armenian Genocide victims.
Oor Eir Asdvadz? (Where Were You, God?): Armenian Identity Formation, Religious Belief, and Mental Health Amongst Ethnic Armenians in Turkey ~ Tuesday, May 27, 2025 ~ On Zoom
This talk explores the intersection of Armenian ethnic identity, religious belief, and mental health among ethnic Armenians, particularly in Turkey and the USA.
9th Annual Undergraduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies at UCLA ~ Friday, May 23, 2025 ~ In-Person (Broad Art Center) and on Zoom
Join undergraduate students presenting in Undergraduate Research Week, May 23-29, 2025
Material Afterlives of Genocide: Violence, Memory, and Landscapes of Ruins in Van ~ Monday, May 12, 2025 ~ In-Person (UCLA Bunche Hall) and on Zoom
This talk focuses on the overlapping histories of the Armenian and Kurdish communities in the region of Van in southeastern Turkey through an exploration of spaces of material ruination.
Sahag II Khabayan (1849-1939): Catholicos of Cilicia as Witness to Massacres and the Armenian Genocide ~ Friday, April 25, 2025 ~ In-Person (UCLA Bunche Hall) and on Zoom
The talk examines the life and work of Sahag II Khabayan, the Catholicos of the House of Cilicia, as a lens through which to explore the Armenian Genocide and its aftermath.
Construction of the Armenian Genocide Denial Narrative ~ Monday, April 14, 2025 ~ On Zoom
This lecture explores the roots of Armenian genocide denialist discourse and its construction as part of the official Ottoman state narrative.
The Library and the Survivor: Aram Andonian in Paris ~ Saturday, March 1, 2025 ~ In-Person (Ararat-Eskijian Museum) and on YouTube
The history of the Nubar Library, founded in Paris in 1927, is inextricably linked to that of its first librarian, Aram Andonian.
Instrumentalist Memory Politics ~ Friday, February 28, 2025 ~ In-Person (UCLA Bunche Hall) and on Zoom
Join us for a session where Daniel Fittante will present his research on "Armenian Genocide Recognition in Europe."
Book Talk: Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs ~ Thursday, February 27, 2025 ~ In-Person (UCLA Bunche Hall) and on Zoom
Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs presents the story of the Armenians of Glendale, California.
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.