Prior Years

This panel brings together four scholars in Armenian Studies and an audience of recent PhDs to discuss the process of revising a dissertation, finding a publisher, and preparing a manuscript.

Dr. Elyse Semerdjian will discuss her book Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide wherein tattooed and scar-bearing bodies reveal the larger history of gender and genocide. In this talk she will focus her discussion on contextualizing a single 1919 humanitarian portrait of a young woman named Mariam Azarian.

This event will be highly interactive and will address any questions you might have about:

• The current situation in Armenia
• The reArmenia platform
• Registration for the Expert Community
• How to support vetted projects and initiators in Armenia

SESSIONS
Session I: Loss, Trauma, & Public Health
Session II: Words and Discourse
Session III: Cultural Heritage
Session IV: International Law and Restoration

Inaugural Nina Garsoian Memorial Lecture "The Return of the Kingdom of Ani, c. 1000," by Dr. Christina Maranci Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University

For almost four centuries, the Parthians served as the rulers of the Armenian kingdom, even after their own kingdom had fallen to the Sasanians in 223 CE. Yet, as far as the documents from this period attest, it was not Parthian, the language of the ruling class, but Armenian that served as the main language of the kingdom. Parthian, shortly after the fall of the Arsacid Parthian Empire, effectively ceases to exist, it would appear.

Literary Lights is a monthly reading series organized by the IALA, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), and the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center. The series features new works of literature by Armenian authors. Audience members are invited to read along with the series.

The world premiere of the recently discovered lost film, “Jackie in the Near East,” a 1924 short film produced by the Near East Relief (NER) and featuring child-star Jackie Coogan, who helped raise millions of dollars in America for orphans of the Armenian Genocide.

Early Modernity & Mobility explores the disparate yet connected histories of Armenian printing establishments in early modern Europe and Asia. From 1512, when the first Armenian printed codex appeared in Venice, to the end of the early modern period in 1800, Armenian presses operated in nineteen locations across the Armenian diaspora.

In Stateless, Talar Chahinian offers a rich exploration of Western Armenian literary history in the wake of the 1915 genocide that led to the dispersion of Armenians across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and beyond. Chahinian highlights two specific time periods—post WW I Paris and Post WW II Beirut—to trace the ways in which literature developed in each diaspora.