Prior Years
SIFTING THROUGH REMNANTS: Excavating the Voiced of Armenian Women Survivors in a Mutilated Archive ~ Wednesday, April 3, 2024 ~ In-Person: Cambridge, MA
Learn about Prof. Elyse Semerdjian’s work in gathering individual memories and archival fragments of women survivors, offering a feminist interpretation of the Armenian Genocide and issuing a call to break open the archival record to embrace affect and memory.
STATELET OF SURVIVORS: The Making of a Semi-Autonomous Region in Northeast Syria ~ Monday, April 1, 2024 ~ In-Person; New York
Syrian Kurds and their Arab and Christian allies have embarked on one of the most radical experiments in self-governance of our time. In defiance of the Assad regime, the Islamic State, and regional autocrats, this unlikely coalition created a statelet to govern their semi-autonomous region.
ARTSAKH: Once There Was and Was Not ~ Thursday, March 21, 2024 ~ In Person: St. Paul / On Zoom
Scout Tufakjian will speak about Artsakh and her people - before, during, and after the ethnic cleansing by the Azerbaijani government, and what is being done (and what still needs to be done) to support them, preserve their culture, and continue to fight for their rights.
WOMEN AND POWER IN MEDIEVAL ARMENIA: Between Local Dynasties and Eurasian Empires ~ Thursday, March 21, 2024 ~ In Person, Catholic University of America
In this Grace and Paul Shahinian Armenian Christian Art and Culture Lecture Series talk, Prof. Zara Pogossian will put back on the historical stage the many peers of Sophia – Armenian élite women – who have rarely received due attention in traditional historiography.
ARMENIANS IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1870-1924: Establishing a Community, Building Institutions ~ Wednesday, March 20, 2024 ~ In Person: NAASR/OnZoom/YouTube
Since history, Armenian-American history included, is more than just a recitation of organizations and entities, but is also made up of the stories of individuals, this presentation will combine family history with the early history of the Armenian-American community in New England and some of its developing institutions as a means to explore the early period of Armenian-American history and identity building in Massachusetts.
OUTCASTING ARMENIANS: Tanzimat of the Provinces ~ Monday, March 18, 2024 ~ In-Person, Columbia
This lecture will reassess the pivotal Ottoman era of Tanzimat, which has a reputation in the historiography as a period of reform and equality.
EMPIRE OF QUESTIONS: The Late Ottoman Empire and Dersim '38 ~ Friday, March 15, 2024 ~ In Person: UCLA/On Zoom/YouTube
Join us as we examine the emergence of various groups as “questions” within the overarching Eastern Question and trace their subsequent solutions through various means of coerced homogenization in the global context of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century racial thinking.
ARMENIAN DIASPORA(S) IN MOTION: Places, Stakeholders and Practices in the 21st Century ~ Thursday and Friday, March 14-15, 2024 ~ In-Person Event
The objective of this two-day international conference will be to reflect on these contemporary reshapings of the Armenian diaspora(s), revealing their diversity and the new dynamics at work. The colloquium will be video recorded for later release. The proceedings of the conference will be published in Études arméniennes contemporaines, the bilingual journal of the AGBU Nubar Library.
ARMENIAN FILMS PROGRAM at the Socially Relevant Film Festival NY (SRFF 2024) ~ March 13-18, 2024 ~ In-Person: NY/Online
The 11th Edition of SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival opens March 13 at the Maysles Documentary Center and continues March 14 at MRHS, March 15-17 at Cinema Village, March 18 at the National Arts Club for the Awards Ceremony. The festival covers a broad range of social issues. The official Selection including the short films line up can be found on the festival’s website under the 2024 Program, totaling 53 films this year, nine of which are Armenian-themed. The main themes of the festival are 100 Years of Armenian Cinema, Black History, BIPOC films, Aging and Disability, Women, LGBTQI+, and more.
OUCASTING ARMENIANS:Tanzimat of the Provinces - A Conversation with Talin Suciyan ~ Wednesday, March 13, 2024 ~ In Person: NJ
Join Dr. Talin Suciyan for compelling insights and to explore the pivotal Ottoman era of Tanzimat, which has a reputation for reform and equality.