News & Events:
Saturday, January 30, 2021 • 10:00AM Pacific/1:00PM Eastern
"The Artsakh War and Armenia: A Conversation with Eric Hacopian"
Eric Hacopian, political commentator and CivilNet contributor
Zoom Registration required: https://bit.ly/armenianstudieshacopian
For more information and flyer.
Saturday, February 6, 2021 • 10:00AM
"The Armenians of Musa Dagh: From Obscurity to Genocide Resistance and Fame 1840-1915"
Dr. Vahram Shemmassian, Director of the Armenian Studies Program, California State
University, Northridge
Co-sponsored by the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, the Ararat-Eskijian
Museum, and the Society for Armenian Studies.
Zoom Registration required: https:bit.ly/armenianstudiesshemmassian
For more information and flyer.
Thursday, February 25, 2021 • 7:00PM
"Portraits of Unbelonging: Photography, the Ottoman State and Armenians Leaving for
America 1896-1908"
Dr. Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, Rutgers University
Zoom Registration required: https:bit.ly/armenianstudieszeynepgursel
For more information and flyer.
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Monday, November 16, 2020 • 7:00PM
"The Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul Under the Light of the Last Crisis of the Patriarchal
Election"
Dr. Ohannes Kıliçdağı, 17th Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies, Fresno State
Friday, October 30, 2020 • 5:30PM
Discussion on the film "Lost Birds"
with Prof. Mary Husain and Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian
in cooperation with Fresno State CineCulture
Sunday, October 25, 2020 • 1:00PM
"The Armenian Genocide and America's Global Role"
Dr. Charlie Laderman, King's College, London
Friday, October 16, 2020 • 7:00PM
"Subjects or Citizens?: Armenians from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic"
Dr. Ohannes Kıliçdağı, 17th Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies, Fresno State
Friday, October 9, 2020 • 5:30PM
"What Will Become of Us"-Film Screening and discussion
with filmmaker/producer Stephanie Ayanian
in cooperation with CineCulture and the Center for Creativity and the Arts
Friday, October 2, 2020 • 7:00PM
Saturday, October 3, 2020 • 10:00AM
"The State of the Art of the Early Turkish Republic Period: Historiography, Sources,
and Future Directions"
A two-day international conference co-sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program and
Society for Armenian Studies (SAS)
Sunday, September 27, 2020 • 4:00PM
Bedros Keljik's Armenian-American Sketches: Stories of Armenians in the Early 20th C."
A Panel discussion with co-editors Christopher Atamian, Lou Ann Matossian, Barlow
Der Mugrdechian and co-translator Vartan Matiossian. Moderated by Marc A. Mamigonian.
Thursday, September 24, 2020 • 7:00PM
"The City Lament: Jerusalem Across the Medieval Mediterranean"
Dr. Tamar Boyadjian, Michigan State University
Thursday, September 3, 2020 • 7:00PM
"Ani Cathedral, its Sculpture, and its Inscriptions Revisited"
Dr. Christina Maranci, Arthur H. Dadian and Ara T. Oztemel Professor of Armenian Art
& Architecture, Tufts University
Friday, September 18, 2020 • 7:00PM
"'Living Together Requires Dying Together': Conscription of Armenians into the Ottoman
Army after the 1908 Revolution"
Dr. Ohannes Kıliçdağı, 17th Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies, Fresno State