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  • CAS Guest Lecture. Unknown Land: Armenian Studies in the Context of Acentric Medieval History

    Weiser Hall Weiser Hall Room 555, 500 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Lecture Abstract: Can we bring together Persian poetry, Georgian romance, Shi'i ḥadīth collections, Greek patriography, Arabic conquest narrative, Hebrew correspondence, Syriac history, and Armenian hagiography to the same page? What happens if we embrace the complexities of medieval sources and reject any single organizational schema such as academic field, (discipline?) language, chronology, religion, or genre? […]

    Free

  • By Women: A Lecture Recital by Şahan Arzruni

    Lawrence Park Community Church 2180 Bayview Ave, North York, ON, Canada

    Experience the iconic works of Armenian Women Composers live at the Lawrence Park Community Church on Sunday, September 28th, performed by Steinway artist, ethnomusicologist, and producer Şahan Arzruni. Hosted by AGBU Toronto in collaboration with AGBU Arts, this piano lecture recital explores the works of Chbotaryan, Chitchyan, Goolkasian-Rahbee, Gazarissian, Hazarabedian, Karamanuk, Kazandjian, and Kouyoumdjian.

    $40

  • Art Talk on Topographies of Dissent: Armenian Art from the Dodge Collection

    AGBU Center 247 MT. AUBURN ST, watertown, Massachusetts, United States

    Join art curators Julia Tulovsky, Armen Yesayants, and Lilit Sargsyan as they discuss the upcoming Zimmerli Art Museum exhibition, Topographies of Dissent: Armenian Art from the Dodge Collection, moderated by Choghakate Kazarian. The exhibition presents a selection of works by Armenian artists from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet […]

    Free

  • Topographies of Dissent: Opening Reception & Panel Conversation

    Zimmerli Art Museum 71 Hamilton St, New Brunswick, NJ, United States

    Zimmerli curator, Julia Tulovsky, moderates a panel conversation with guest curators Lilit Sargsyan and Armen Yesayants, followed by the opening reception for our new exhibition, Topographies of Dissent: Armenian Art from the Dodge Collection. PROGRAM 4:30 PM / PANEL CONVERSATION 5:30 PM / RECEPTION About the Guest Curators Lilit Sargsyan is one of Armenia’s leading […]

    Free

  • CAS Guest Lecture. The Politics of ‘No!’: Armenia’s National Survival and Queer Futures

    Weiser Hall Weiser Hall Room 555, 500 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Abstract: In this talk, based on my recent book Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia (Duke University Press, 2024), I discuss the intricate links between two popular rhetorics in Armenia at the time of my research (2012-2014): aylaserutyn (sexual perversion, attributed by right wing nationalists and by mainstream media to the figuration […]

    Free

  • Inch by Inch: Making Armenian Literature Accessible in English

    IALA will host Inch by Inch, a virtual reading and panel discussion on translating Armenian literature into English, on November 8, 2025, at 9:00 AM PT | 12:00 PM ET | 9:00 PM AMT. For many in the Armenian diaspora and the English-speaking world, centuries of Armenian literature remain hidden behind a language barrier. Translators […]

  • CAS Guest Lecture. The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979

    Weiser Hall Weiser Hall Room 555, 500 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    With this book, Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor offer the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran. Foregrounding the work of Armenian women's organizations, the authors trace minoritarian politics and the shifting relationships among doubly minoritized Armenian female subjects, Iran's central nodes of power, and the Irano-Armenian patriarchal institutions of church and political parties. […]

    Free

  • The Business of Writing: A Virtual Panel

    The International Armenian Literary Alliance is pleased to invite you to The Business of Writing, a free and virtual panel discussion with literary agents Arevik Ashkharoyan, Jennifer Azantian and Natalie Edwards. The event will take place on Zoom on November 15, 2025, at 9:00 AM Pacific | 12:00 PM Eastern | 9:00 PM Armenia Time. […]

  • CAS Guest Lecture. Writing Waterline: Patterns in Contemporary Armenian Diaspora Narratives

    Weiser Hall Weiser Hall Room 555, 500 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Abstract: As a young artist beginning to write about my Armenian ethnicity, I became fascinated with the conventions and recommendations editors used to mediate my stories and essays. This became a central question in proposing and editing the anthology We Are All Armenian: Voices from the Diaspora and in drafting my debut novel, Waterline. This talk will explore […]

    Free
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