Prior Years — #SAS
TRANSITION TREMORS: Armenia Two Years After the Velvet Revolution ~ Live on Zoom/Live stream on YouTube ~ Saturday, August, 22, 2020
In 2018, a democratic breakthrough via mass-scale nonviolent disobedience campaign brought down Armenia’s competitive, soft authoritarian system headed by then President-turned-Prime Minister Serj Sargsyan. Since then, the country continues to face challenges to consolidate its still fragile democracy.
NO END IN SIGHT? LEBANON IN RENEWED TURMOIL ~ Live on Zoom/YouTube ~ Wednesday, August 19, 2020
This panel conversation will try to contextualize the recent developments in Lebanon by looking at the country’s socio-political structure, the role of the Armenian community within that fabric as well as the possible futures of the country and the community.
TREASURES OF THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN NATION ~ Thursday, August 6, 2020 ~ Zoom/YouTube
Dr. Utijian's recent publications include the volumes They Who Imbibed the Effusions of the Spirit: The Art of the Armenian Book through the Ages (Mervart, 2016), Treasures of the Earliest Christian Nation: Spirituality, Art and Music in Mediaeval Armenian Manuscripts (Royal Canonry of Premonstratensians at Strahov in Prague, 2018) and Tntesean and the Music of the Armenian Hymnal (Mervart, 2018). He is currently preparing his monograph entitled “Sweet in melody and voice: Words, neumes and music in the odes of St. Gregory of Narek," for publication.
SAS Conference: Diaspora and 'Stateless Power' ~ October 12-13, 2019
Saturday and Sunday, October 12-13, 2019 ~ Rolfe Hall 1200, UCLA Society for Armenian Studies 45th Anniversary Conference Diaspora and 'Stateless Power': Social Discipline and Identity Formation Across the Armenian Diaspora during the Long Twentieth Century ~ A Conference in Honor of Khachig Tololyan Click here for the full program