2015-2017 Events

2015-2016

  • Lecture: "A Look at Ourselves: Armenians Through the Camera’s Eye." by Ruth Thomasian
  • Lecture: "Armenians Through the Camera’s Eye: Preserving Community and Cultural Memory." by Ruth Thomasian
  • Lecture: "The Armenian Problem: Authors Reflect on the Armenian Genocide 100 Years Later." by Sona Avakian, Serge Bakalian, Eric Bogosian, Carol Edgarian, David Hovan, Aline Ohanesian, and Katherine Taylor
  • Symposium: "Spirit of Knowledge and Excellence"
    • Speakers: Fr. Mesrop Aramian and Aram Pakhchanian
  • Lecture: "The Extermination of Armenians in Aintab: The Role of Local and Provincial Elites in the Annihilation and Deportation of Aintab Armenians in 1915-1918" by Ümit Kurt
  • Lecture: "What Comes After Undoing Denial: Reflections on Contemporary Art and Exhibition Practices in the Armenian Diaspora" by Neery Melkonian
  • Symposium: "Armenia 2016: Twenty-Five Years after Independence" 
    • Speakers: Dr. Vicken Cheterian, Dr. Vahram Ter-Matevosyan, The Honorable Robert Avetisyan, Karin Mac Donald, Gail Pellerin, and Stephan Astourian
  • Panel Discussion: the Nagono Karabakh Republic
  • Lecture: "Retracing an Armenian Genocide survivor's path across Turkey and Syria" by Dawn MacKeen
  • Lecture: "Contemporary Armenian Drama and World Literature" by Dr. Myrna Douzjian
  • Lecture: "The Armenians in Turkey: A History Denied" by Dr. Talin Suciyan
  • Lecture: "Survivors into Minorities: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey" by Dr. Lerna Ekmekcioglu

2016-2017

  • Lecture by Dr. Khatchig Mouradian
  • Lecture: "Recent Developments in Turkey and the Turkish Armenian Community."  by Garo Paylan
  • Lecture: "Nagorno-Karabakh: is a Solution Visible?" by His Excellency Edward Nalbandian
  • Lecture: And the Book was not Consumed: The Forty Days of Musa Dagh and the Nazi Holocaust" by Dr. James Russell
  • Lecture: "Khojaly Tragedy: Beyond State Ideologies" by Nona R. Shahnazarian
  • Lecture: "Smart Nation: a Blueprint for Modern Armenia" by Sassoon Grigorian
  • Film Screening: "Women of 1915." with Film Producer Bared Maronian 
  • Lecture: "Islam and Christianity in Competition: Armenian Martyrdoms of the Late 12th Century" by Dr. Sergio La Porta
  • Film Screening: "Havresc: Stand on Courage." with Film Producer David Ritter
  • Lecture: "Mediterranean Models and Modalities in forging a Strong Centralized Monarchy in 13th Century Armenian Cilicia." by Peter Cowe
  • Conference: New Perspectives on Armenian Ottoman History
  • Lecture: "Armenian in New York City: A Fascinating History." by Harold Takooshian