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“Armenian Memory, Writing Across Borders: A Reading and Talk” with Pulitzer Prize winning poet Peter Balakian
University Business Center 5245 N. Backer Ave., Fresno State, United StatesBalakian will read and discuss his poetry and prose with a focus on Armenian historical and cultural memory and disaporan imagination. In his many books of poems and his memoir Black Dog of Fate, Balakian has explored-in his distinct poetic form and elliptical language-traumatic intergenerational memory of the Armenian Genocide, as well as the power… Continue reading “Armenian Memory, Writing Across Borders: A Reading and Talk” with Pulitzer Prize winning poet Peter Balakian
Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces
University Business Center 5245 N. Backer Ave., Fresno State, United StatesThis lecture will discuss the Ottoman Tanzimat era through the lenses of the Armenian Patriarchate Archives along with the Ottoman Archives. It will argue that while Tanzimat has long been portrayed as a progressive period that granted rights to all peoples of the empire, in fact it set the mold for policies of oppression which… Continue reading Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces
Eradicating Cultures, Erasing Lives: Children and the Armenian and Native American Genocides
University Business Center 5245 N. Backer Ave., Fresno State, United StatesIn this talk, Keith David Watenpaugh, Professor and Director at UC Davis Human Rights Studies, draws the genocide of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire into the comparative study of indigenous genocide. He focuses on the erasure of indigenous children's identity by state authorities through boarding schools to argue that the ideology and practice of… Continue reading Eradicating Cultures, Erasing Lives: Children and the Armenian and Native American Genocides
Armenian Manuscript Painting: The Early Tradition
University Business Center 5245 N. Backer Ave., Fresno State, United Statescant areas of early Armenian Christian Art. Although the Armenian alphabet was created in the 5 c. AD, the earliest surviving illustrated/painted manuscripts date only from the 9th c. AD. These 9th century manuscripts, such as the Etchmiadzin Gospel and the Queen Mlk'e Gospel give us insight into the early tradition of Armenian Manuscript painting.… Continue reading Armenian Manuscript Painting: The Early Tradition
Echoes of Kef Time
University Business Center 5245 N. Backer Ave., Fresno State, United StatesSynopsis of the Film: Richard Hagopian, a legendary Armenian-American musician, pioneered one of the most fruitful genres of Armenian cultural folk music and the joyous, dance-filled events that his band was notorious for holding: Kef Time. But times change, and the once sold-out shows faded into history. Echoes of Kef Time dives into Richard’s quest… Continue reading Echoes of Kef Time
Armenia Summer Study Program 2023 : Reflections
University Business Center 5245 N. Backer Ave., Fresno State, United StatesProfessor Barlow Der Mugrdechian led a group of eleven students on the Armenia Summer Study Program, May 23-June 8, 2023. While in Armenia students visited the major cultural and religious sites in Armenia, including a visit to Holy Etchmiadzin. They visited the Armenian Genocide Monument-Institute and the Armenian Genocide Museum. A visit to Mer Hooys-House… Continue reading Armenia Summer Study Program 2023 : Reflections
Jerusalem and the Armenians until the Ottoman Conquest (1516)
University Business Center 5245 N. Backer Ave., Fresno State, United StatesIn the four-fold division of the Old City of Jerusalem, the Christian and the Armenian Quarters are contiguous but independent. This situation corresponds to the ancientness and the importance of the Armenian presence. Jerusalem has indeed remained a myth for Armenians since the 4th century, when Christianity was proclaimed a national religion. The relations of… Continue reading Jerusalem and the Armenians until the Ottoman Conquest (1516)
Microhistories in Armenian Studies
University Business Center 5245 N. Backer Ave., Fresno State, United States +1 moreA two day international conference Day 1-7:00PM-University Business Center, Fresno State Keynote speaker: Dr. Hans Lukas Kieser Victoria Abrahamyan (University of Neuchâtel) "The Contested Armenian Participation in the Syrian Great Revolt, 1925-1926" Ara Sarafian (Gomidas Institute) "The Great Drought/Famine of Van and Kurdish Armenian Relations cir. 1880" Sam Dolbee (Vanderbilt University) "Hovhannes Doumanian and the… Continue reading Microhistories in Armenian Studies
Microhistories in Armenian Studies
University Business Center 5245 N. Backer Ave., Fresno State, United States +1 moreA two day international conference Day 1-7:00PM-University Business Center, Fresno State Keynote speaker: Dr. Hans Lukas Kieser Victoria Abrahamyan (University of Neuchâtel) "The Contested Armenian Participation in the Syrian Great Revolt, 1925-1926" Ara Sarafian (Gomidas Institute) "The Great Drought/Famine of Van and Kurdish Armenian Relations cir. 1880" Sam Dolbee (Vanderbilt University) "Hovhannes Doumanian and the… Continue reading Microhistories in Armenian Studies
Forbidden Homeland: Story of a Diasporan
University Business Center 5245 N. Backer Ave., Fresno State, United StatesIn 1988, a single innocent comment made at her college in southern California leads Katia, a new immigrant, to the discovery of long-lost relatives she knew nothing about. These were descendants of her grandmother’s siblings from whom she was separated because of the Genocide. As Katia decides to find answers to questions she had struggled… Continue reading Forbidden Homeland: Story of a Diasporan