Prior Years

April 21: Panel discussion on “What Is the Armenian Question Today?” with Dickran Boyajian, Setrak B. Minas, Charles A. Vertanes, Firuz Kazemzadeh, Manoog S. Young. June 10: Thirteenth Annual Assembly of Members. Dedication of new headquarters building at 175 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge.

June 20-24: NAASR Summer Institute on Armenian History and Culture at Harvard University, with sessions taught by Rev. Arten Ashjian, Michael J. Connolly, James Etmekjian, Richard N. Frye, Nina G. Garsoian, Cyrus Gordon, Ben Halpern, Helmut H. Koester, William L. Langer, Mary K. Matossian, Hagop Nersoyan, Avedis Sanjian, A. O. Sarkissian, Robert W. Thomson, George H. Williams. The Institute includes 25 daytime lectures and evening programs. June 25: Twelfth Annual Assembly of Members. November 21: Lecture by Robert Mirak on “Armenian Immigration to America: Problems and Lessons” at Harvard.

March 26: Tenth Anniversary Banquet at Harvard Club of New York City. Announcement of plans to create full-time Armenian Studies program at Columbia University. October 15-17: Eleventh Annual Assembly of Members and forum on “Preserving the Armenian Heritage and Cultural Values.” World premiere of film “Where Are My People?” by J. Michael Hagopian.

March 20: Lecture by Michael E. Stone on “Armenian and Biblical Studies” at Harvard. April 17: Lecture by Roman Jakobson on “Slavic and Armenian Questions in the Middle Ages” at Harvard. May 15: Lecture by Prof. V. L. Parsegian on “Armenia Revisited by an American-Armenian Scientist” at Harvard. June 11-14: Tenth Annual Assembly of Members, Tenth Anniversary Banquet, and International Conference on the Armenian Language with Robert W. Thomson, Hagop Nersoyan, Michael E. Stone, A. A. Bedikian, Robert Godel, Charles Dowsett, Frederic Feydit, Arra S. Avakian, Paul Bedoukian, Roman Jakobson, Paul Essabal, Richard N. Frye, M. G. Sevag, Nina Garsoian,...

March 1: Lecture on “Armenia at the Crossroads: 1917-21” by Prof. Firuz Kazamzadeh. April 20: Kick-Off Banquet and Reception at UCLA for Armenian Studies Fund featuring film director Rouben Mamoulian and others. May 18-19: Ninth Annual Assembly of Members with panel discussion “The Armenian Heritage—Why Should It Be Perpetuated?” With Hagop Nersoyan, Robert Mirak, Marjorie Housepian, Max Boudakian, Vernon Aspaturian, Emmanuel Varandyan, and Lionel Galstaun, moderator. December 6: NAASR sponsors lecture by Richard E. Pipes on “The Armenian Question in the Formation of the Soviet Union” at Harvard.