Dr. Maghakyan examines the multilayered factors behind such security policies and identifying potential pathways for preempting similar outcomes in Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh.
Prior Years — #PromiseArmenianInstituteUCLA
Literary Lights 2025: Featuring Tenny Arlen’s To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here? - December 6, 2025
Dr. Jesse Arlen presents To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here?, a bilingual collection of Tenny Arlen’s poetry, joined by Susan Barba, Hagop Gulludjian, and Arthur Ipek.
Past-Proofing the Future: Theorizing the Erasure of Djulfa, Twenty Years On - December 1, 2025
Anna Aleksanyan, Women’s Daily Life in Exile (1915-1918) - November 17, 2025
Hybrid lecture by Dr. Anna Aleksanyan, a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Armenian Genocide Research Program within the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, with commentary by Dr. Taner Akcam. Monday, November 17, 20256:00 PM PT / 9:00 PM ETUCLA Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 Hybrid event: register on Zoom here. After being deported from their homes and arriving at transit camps, Armenian women had varying experiences depending on their location within the empire's Arab-speaking provinces. After crossing the Taurus Mountains, the deportees were forced to follow one of two routes: one to the east and the other to the north of Syria....
NAGORNO KARABAKH/ARTSAKH and the PALIMPSESTS of CONFLICT, VIOLENCE, and MEMORY ~ Saturday, October 31, 2020 ~ LIVE on ZOOM/YouTube
Organized by the Armenian Studies Center at UCLA's Promise Armenian Institute, this Zoom-held international conference on the region's troubled history seeks to raise critical awareness of the complex and variegated history behind the current violence. The gathering will be the first of its kind to frame the conflict around its “deep” history, revealing its Soviet, Ottoman, and more recent geopolitical layers.
Cemal Pasha’s Role in the Armenian Genocide ~ Thursday, October 22, 2020 ~ Live on Zoom
In this presentation, Professor Akçam will explore the contrasting popular and scholarly views of the role of Cemal Pasha in Ottoman and Armenian history. While a commonly-held view of non-historians considers Cemal Pasha to be one of the “Three Pashas” (along with Talat Pasha and Enver Pasha) who were largely responsible for the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian Genocide (1914-1923), many historians in fact have argued that he actually opposed the annihilationist policies directed toward Armenians.
WHEN WAS THE DECISION MADE TO ANNIHILATE THE ARMENIANS? with Taner Akçam ~ LIVE on Zoom ~ Monday, September 14, 2020
In this presentation, Professor Taner Akçam will introduce some newly unearthed documents from the Ottoman archives in Istanbul that indicate that the first decision to exterminate Armenians was taken on December 1, 1914, well before most scholars in the field ever suggested.