Cummings Foundation Grant Recipient

Prior Years

The International Recognition of the Armenian Genocide: Memorial, Political, and Geopolitical Stakes of a Decades-Long Unfinished Struggle ~ October 23 - 25, 2024 ~ Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation (Yerevan, Armenia)

The International Recognition of the Armenian Genocide: Memorial, Political, and Geopolitical Stakes of a Decades-Long Unfinished Struggle ~ October 23 - 25, 2024 ~ Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Foundation (Yerevan, Armenia)

The central aim of this international conference is to study how and why, since the end of the  Second World War and more significantly since the 1960s onwards, international actors have positioned themselves on the matter of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide—as well as how and why their respective positions have evolved over time. 

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'The Very Limit of Our Endurance': Rev. Hovhannes Eskijian and His Network of Resisters During the Armenian Genocide ~ Friday, October 18, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA Mong Learning Center) and on Zoom

'The Very Limit of Our Endurance': Rev. Hovhannes Eskijian and His Network of Resisters During the Armenian Genocide ~ Friday, October 18, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA Mong Learning Center) and on Zoom

This talk explores the role of Reverend Hovhannes Eskijian and his associates in the underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats who resisted the destruction of the Armenian people during World War I.

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Gaslighting the World: How Azerbaijan Falsifies History and Denies Armenian Existence ~ Wednesday, October 16, 2024 ~ In-Person (NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building), on YouTube, and on Zoom

Gaslighting the World: How Azerbaijan Falsifies History and Denies Armenian Existence ~ Wednesday, October 16, 2024 ~ In-Person (NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building), on YouTube, and on Zoom

The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
Presents the Fifth Annual Prof. Charles B. Garabedian Lecture

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Writing Against Stalin's Western City: Mkrtich Armen's Yerevan (1931) and the Specter of the "New East" (Nor Arevelk') ~ Wednesday, October 9, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA Bunche Center) and On Zoom

Writing Against Stalin's Western City: Mkrtich Armen's Yerevan (1931) and the Specter of the "New East" (Nor Arevelk') ~ Wednesday, October 9, 2024 ~ In-Person (UCLA Bunche Center) and On Zoom

In his talk, Dr. Leupold will argue that these alternative imaginaries of the urban were informed, in an unexpected dialectical twist, both by retrotopian yearning for a (pre-)colonial past that was coming undone before their eyes and anticipation for a utopian future at a point of post-revolutionary history largely understood by its contemporaries as the dawn of socialist worldmaking. 

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Azerbaijan and the Destruction of Armenian Civilization ~ Saturday, September 28, 2024 ~ On Zoom and on YouTube

Azerbaijan and the Destruction of Armenian Civilization ~ Saturday, September 28, 2024 ~ On Zoom and on YouTube

Azerbaijan and the Destruction of Armenian Civilization by Samvel Karapetian and published by Research on Armenian Architecture (RAA) exposes the cultural genocide perpetrated against historical Armenian heritage by Azerbaijan.

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