Cummings Foundation Grant Recipient

Prior Years — UCLA Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies

EARLY MODERNITY & MOBILITY: Port Cities and Printers Across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800 ~ Tuesday, November 28, 2023 ~ In-Person/On Zoom/YouTube

EARLY MODERNITY & MOBILITY: Port Cities and Printers Across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800 ~ Tuesday, November 28, 2023 ~ In-Person/On Zoom/YouTube

Early Modernity and Mobility explores the disparate yet connected histories of Armenian printing establishments in early modern Europe and Asia. 

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HOW WESTERN ARMENIAN CAME TO BE: A Story of People, Purism, and Global Ideas ~ Thursday, October 12, 2023 ~ On Zoom

HOW WESTERN ARMENIAN CAME TO BE: A Story of People, Purism, and Global Ideas ~ Thursday, October 12, 2023 ~ On Zoom

This presentation explores the emergence of the standard language known today as Western Armenian. In particular, it examines the intellectual labor that led to the acceptance of this language as the dominant written medium among Ottoman Armenians by 1915.

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