Prior Years

   Book Launch and Concert Featured Performers:  Sylvie Zakarian (marimba) Daniela Tošić (vocal) Karine Bagdasarian (piano)   Location: Armenian Cultural Foundation441 Mystic Street (Route 3), Arlington, MA Date and Time:Sunday, October 19, 2025 4:00 PM ET     Organized by Armenian Cultural Foundation (ACF)   Co-sponsored by Amaras Art Alliance (AAA) and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)

Join us in an event full of storytelling, games, and art with children's author and illustrator Alik Arzoumanian. Children up to 10 are welcome accompanied by an adult!

NAASR will host this symposium, open to the public, at the NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building. An international lineup of speakers will present papers on a wide range of topics.

Join Muriel Mirak-Weissbach at the Armenian Cultural Foundation in Arlington for the launch of her book A German General and the Armenian Genocide.

For 11-year-old Vrej, life in his homeland, Artsakh, is like a paradise–that is until his life takes a sudden turn when war erupts, and he is forced to flee with his family. Please join for a meet-and-greet with Directory Sareen Hairabedian at 6pm with a talkback to follow the film.

Alison Vacca reveals what rejecting any single organizational schema of history can offer to the field of Armenian studies, moving past the liminality implied in the “between Byzantium and Islam” or “between Rome and Iran” paradigms.

AILA's Literary Lights 2025 reading series returns with an event featuring Aram Mrjoian, editor and author of Waterline, in conversation with award-winning writer Chris McCormick.

Sait Çetinoğlu and Taner Akçam present an archive of digitized advertisements from the 1920s and 1930s of the confiscated properties of Armenian Genocide victims.

Author Mischa Geracoulis will discuss how the role of journalism and the media during times of conflict is to report information from the front lines and war zones with integrity, and report accurately when states or other combatants engage in human rights violations.

The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lecture Series on Contemporary Armenian Issues Present Demography, Politics, Resettlement: Artsakh’s Refugees in Armenia Today A Webinar with Antranig Kasbarian and Gegham Stepanyan Friday, August 22, 2025 12:00 p.m. (Eastern) / 9:00 a.m. (Pacific)  LIVE ON ZOOM AND YOUTUBE Zoom Registration Link: http://bit.ly/45rWhSD NAASR YouTube Channel Link: https://www.youtube.com/c/ArmenianStudies For some 30 years, significant efforts and resources were devoted to assisting the Armenians of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh) to build secure and prosperous lives. The violent expulsion in 2023 of all Armenians from the region, however, resulted in a massive...