Prior Years
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.
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.
Treasures of Areni-1 Cave ~ Thursday, September 26, 2024 ~ In-Person (NAASR), on Zoom, and on YouTube
Ani Adigyozalyan will discuss the many treasures of Armenian culture and ritual discovered in the Areni-1 Cave in Vayots Dzor
More Than Bones ~ Monday, September 23, 2024 ~ In-Person (Harvard Science Center)
Come learn about exciting discoveries, some as recent as 2008 when a 5,500-year-old leather shoe was excavated in Armenia!
LITERARY LIGHTS: Lory Bedikian and Brian Turner ~ Saturday, September 21, 2024 ~ On Zoom
The final installment of our reading series, Literary Lights 2024, features Lory Bedikian, author of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry winner, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body. Bedikian will be joined by award-winning poet, essayist and professor, Brian Turner.
The Fresno Premiere Screening of “Strangers in a Promised Land Remastered” ~ Friday, September 20, 2024 ~ In-Person (Fresno State)
A movie screening on the Armenian community in Fresno, California.
Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) 50th Anniversary Conference Program ~ September 13-15, 2024 ~ In-Person (Harvard University and NAASR)
Armenian Studies: Evolving Connections and Conversations
“Fighting Misinformation Amid a Security Crisis: The Armenian Media Landscape” ~ Thursday, September 5, 2024 ~ In-Person (Baikar Building)
A Fletcher Russia & Eurasia program event with Maria Titizian from EVN Report. The event will focus on fighting misinformation within the Armenian landscape.
An Evening of Tribute in Honor of the Late Professor Vahakn Dadrian ~ Sunday, August 25, 2024 ~ In-Person (OIA Center) and Online
Presenting the annual OIA Vahakn Dadrian Genocide Scholar Award to Dr. Lusine Sahakyan, Head of the Department of Armenian-Ottoman Relations, Institute for Armenian Studies, Yerevan State University.
Queer Speculations: A Virtual Reading and Gathering ~ Saturday, June 22, 2024 ~ On Zoom
As we speculate about the future of the Queer Armenian community, what possibilities are before us? How can we use speculative fiction to imagine and reimagine those possibilities? In this event, authors Kristin Anahit Cass and Jacob Budenz will discuss how they have used speculative fiction to reflect on the present and illuminate future queer potentialities. Cass will read from her new book Reparations of the Heart: Toward a Swana Futurity and Budenz will read from his new book Tea Leaves. The conversation will be moderated by J.P. Der Boghossian, host of the podcast This Queer Book Saved My Life (2024 GLAAD media award nominee).