2013-2015 Events

2013-2014

  • Symposium: "Unsustainable Environmental Practices in Armenia and Artsakh."
    • Speakers: Yeghia Nersesian, Levon Galstyan, and Anna Aghlamazyan
  • Lecture and Book Presentation: "Armenian Genocide by Ottoman Turkey, 1915: Testimonies of Survivors" by Mr. Gagik Melikyan 
  • Lecture: "The Smyrna Catastrophe, 1922." by Prof. Richard G. Hovannisian
  • Lecture: "A Century to Apologize for: Turkey's Minority Politics, Genocide Denial and the Intellectuals' Apology." by Ayda Erbal
  • Documentary Screening and Discussion: "Orphans of the Genocide." by Bared Maronian
  • Lecture: "Converting Identity: Armenian Women, Conversion, and Gender Politics in the Shari‘a Court of Aleppo." by Elyse Semerdjian
  • Lecture: "Feuding Bishops, Intransigent Patriots, and the Battle for Nagomo-Karabakh: Contested Visions of Caucasian Albania from Late Antiquity until Today" by Stephen Rapp
  • Film Screening and Discussion: "Vahe Oshagan Redux" by Hrayr Eulmessekian
  • Lecture: "Modern-Day Slavery--A Reality Close to Home?" by Gulnara Shahinian
  • Panel Discussion: "The Road to Home: Defining Success in the Armenian Diaspora"
    • Speakers: Aram Ayazyan, Kevin Minissian, Adam Kablanian, Alex Saghatelian, Sarah Leah Whitson, Christine Soussa, and Kim Bardakian
  • Lecture: "The Genealogy of the Concept of 'Crimes against Humanity': The Allies' May 24 Note to the Ottoman Govemement, its Precedents, and its Afterlife." by Peter Holquist
  • Lecture: "A World History of Genocide." by Norman Naimark
  • Lecture: "Assimilation: A Structural Element of the Armenian Genocide." by Taner Akçam

2014-2015

  • Lecture: "What's New? What's Old? A Critical Reading of the Changes in the Discourse About the Armenian Genocide in Turkey." by Seyhan Bayraktar
  • Lecture: "Armenian-Macedonian Relations and Their Bulgarian Connection at the Turn of the Twentieth Century." by Garabet Moumdjian
  • Lecture: "Armenians and the Young Turk Revolution of 1908: A Comparative Perspective." by Bedross Der Matossian
  • Lecture: “Like Water on Stone” – A Book Presentation. by Dr. Dana Walrath
  • Lecture: "Armenians in the Midst of Civil Wars: Lebanon and Syria Compared." by Ara Sanjian
  • Lecture: "The Soviet Authorities and the Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, 1920–1990." by Ara Sanjian
  • Lecture: "The Stories We Tell: Bestselling Author Carol Edgarian Discusses the Armenian Genocide As It Relates to Fiction and Remembrance."
  • Conference: "The Armenian Genocide"
  • Lecture: "Remembering the Literary Lions of Armenia" by Dr. Herand M. Markarian