Prior Years
Literary Lights 2025: Featuring Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian ~ Saturday, June 28, 2025 ~ On Zoom
Our June edition of Literary Lights 2025 reading series features Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian, professor, curator and author of Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature, in conversation with award-winning writer Nancy Kricorian.
The Auctioning of Stolen Armenian Properties: Emval-i Metruke ~ Monday, June 16, 2025 ~ On Zoom
Join us for a special webinar, organized by the Armenian Genocide Research Program of the Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, presenting groundbreaking research on the fate of Armenian properties confiscated during and after the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Oor Eir Asdvadz? (Where Were You, God?): Armenian Identity Formation, Religious Belief, and Mental Health Amongst Ethnic Armenians in Turkey ~ Tuesday, May 27, 2025 ~ On Zoom
This talk explores the intersection of Armenian ethnic identity, religious belief, and mental health among ethnic Armenians, particularly in Turkey and the USA.
9th Annual Undergraduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies at UCLA ~ Friday, May 23, 2025 ~ In-Person (Broad Art Center) and on Zoom
Join undergraduate students presenting in Undergraduate Research Week, May 23-29, 2025
Film Screening: "Coming Full Circle" ~ Thursday, May 22, 2025 ~ In-Person (Ararat-Eskijian Museum)
Telling the Story of the 1946-49 Great Repatriation as a State-Orchestrated Migration.
Those Who Could Save Their World and Those Who Could Not: What Do Family Archives Tell Us? ~ Monday, May 19, 2025 ~ On YouTube and on Zoom
This talk will concentrate on multiple families’ archives kept in Philadelphia, Montreal, and New Jersey.
Material Afterlives of Genocide: Violence, Memory, and Landscapes of Ruins in Van ~ Monday, May 12, 2025 ~ In-Person (UCLA Bunche Hall) and on Zoom
This talk focuses on the overlapping histories of the Armenian and Kurdish communities in the region of Van in southeastern Turkey through an exploration of spaces of material ruination.
Literary Lights 2025: Featuring Gregory Djanikian ~ Saturday, May 10, 2025 ~ On Zoom
With Nostalgia for the Future: New and Selected Poems, 1984-2023, award-winning poet Gregory Djanikian returns to the literary scene with a collection that spans and celebrates his prolific career.
The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860-1979 ~ Thursday, May 8, 2025 ~ In-Person (NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building)
With the newly published The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860-1979 (Stanford Univ. Press, 2025), Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor offer the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran.
ԱԲԳ for Children: The Sun and the Moon Children's Event with Teni Apelian ~ Saturday, May 3, 2025 ~ In-Person (NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building)
Join us to celebrate the spring with traditional songs, stories, and games in Armenian with Teni Apelian.