In joint efforts to unify the Armenian community, The Mirror-Spectator Calendar is a place to find, post and share interesting events and gatherings, ANYWHERE around the world. Posting events is always FREE for everyone!
The International Armenian Literary Alliance's Literary Lights 2025 reading series returns with an event featuring Aram Mrjoian, editor and author of Waterline, in conversation with award-winning writer Chris McCormick. The virtual event will take place on September 20, 2025, at 10:00 AM Pacific | 1:00 PM Eastern | 9:00 PM AMT. In this deeply moving […]
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? […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Arpi Nakashian provides a virtual tour through the Holy Land and Armenian Jerusalem -- a hybrid free event (in person is at St. John Armenian Church, Southfield, MI)
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. […]
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. […]
