Prior Years

April 4-5: Conference on “Armenian Studies in the 20th Century,” with Dennis Papazian, Avedis K. Sanjian, Richard G. Hovannisian, Nina G. Garsoian, Kevork Kherlopian, Richard N. Frye, Hagop Nersoyan, Robert W. Thomson, Manoog S. Young, Vartan Artinian. May 20: “Armenian Folk Dance: Its Origin and Development,” talk and demonstration by Vicki Dilsizian June 14: 21st Annual Assembly of Members, with lecture by Frank Stone on “Armenian Studies on the Secondary Level.” October 17-19: NAASR participates in Boston Globe Book festival. November 9: NAASR holds First Armenian Book Fair in Hartford, CT, with talks by Jacques Kayaloff, James Etmekjian, and Frank...

June 22: Twentieth Annual Assembly of Members, with lectures by Prof. Omeljan Pritsak, Director of Harvard Ukrainian Institute, on “Ethnic Studies, Armenian and Ukrainian,” and Hagop Nersoyan on “Armenian Studies in the Next Decade.” November 10: Twentieth Anniversary Banquet and Celebration November 15: Lecture by Dickran Kouymjian on “Miniature Painting from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and the Art of Toros Roslin” at Harvard University. November 29-30: Institute on Armenian Civilization in Transition, daytime lectures at Harvard University December 2: Second Armenian Book Fair in Providence, RI, with author talks by Jacques Kayaloff (The Battle of Sardarabad), James Etmekjian (The...

February 9: Lecture by Prof. Erich Goldhagen on “The Forgotten and Forgiven Genocides: The Massacres of the Armenians and the Jewish Holocaust—Some Comparative Reflections.”  Read the press release. March 23: Lecture by Martin H. Halabian on “The Quest for an Armenian National Home” in Belmont.  Read the press release. April 13: Forum on “The Recovery of Armenian Territories: An Impossible Dream or Realistic Possibility?” with Yervant Azadian, Leo Sarkisian, James B. Gidney, Firuz Kazemzadeh, Manoog S. Young, in Belmont.  Read the press release. May 19: Nineteenth Annual Assembly of Members with talk by Richard Frye on “Armenian Studies—Past, Present, and...

January 14: Lecture by Prof. Michael E. Stone on “Recent Trends in Armenological Studies.” June 3: “Forum on the Armenian Press in America: Its Purpose and Relevance,” with Edward K. Boghosian, Robert Nakashian, Varoujan Samuelian, and James H. Tashjian; moderated by Rev. Vartan Hartunian. Presented by the Greater Boston Chapter of NAASR at the Hosmer School, Watertown, MA. June 17-18: Eighteenth Annual Assembly of Members and NAASR Banquet with lecture by Vartan Gregorian on “New Impetus for Armenian Studies” and Richard Norsigian on “Armenian Studies and Armenian Schools.” June 29: Book talk by Dickran Boyajian on “Armenia: The Case for...

April 29: Lecture by Prof. Clifford C. Lamberg-Kalovsky on “Recent Trends in Archaeology and Their Relevance to Armenian Studies” at Harvard.  Read the press release. May 10: Discussion of “Campus and Cultural Life in Armenia” with Robert Der Bedrosian, Philip and Sonia Ketchian, and Garabed Kassakhian. May 21: Lecture by Genevieve C. Jones on “How Armenian Words Are Formed” at Harvard. July 12: Discussion of “Armenian Life in the Middle East.” September 13: Discussion of “Armenian Priorities” in the United States. October 28-30: International Conference on Authority and Democracy (co-sponsored by Harvard’s Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures and...