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!
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. […]
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 […]
The final installment of the International Armenian Literary Alliance's Literary Lights 2025 reading series features Tenny Arlen’s posthumous poetry collection To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here? Jesse Arlen, co-translator of the book, will be joined by Susan Barba, Hagop Gulludjian and Arthur Ipek. The virtual event, cosponsored by UCLA’s Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies, Promise Armenian Institute, Richard Hovannisian […]
Register https://agbu.org/women-shaping-world-wstw-co-hosted-ypgny-2026 Location: AGBU Headquarters, 55 east 59th Street, 7th floor, New York, NY 10022 General Admission: Please donate a suggested $20 or more (tax receipt will be provided) to AGBU EmpowerHer. https://agbu.org/empowerher In celebration of International Women’s Day, AGBU Headquarters and AGBU Young Professionals of Greater New York (YPGNY) proudly present Women Shaping the […]
Join AGBU Arts and Sudanahye director, Vahe Boghosian, at the AGBU Central Office for a discussion surrounding Armenian Life in colonial Sudan as preserved through archival photographs and oral history. Light refreshments will be served. The Sudanahye Project is a research and archival initiative documenting Sudanese-Armenian history—opening a broader conversation about shared paths of exile, […]
Join art historian and curator, Choghakate Kazarian, for a curated screening of landmark performances in Armenia from the 1970s through the early 1990s, featuring works drawn from newly uncovered archives. Each performance will be introduced with historical context. This webinar is presented in conjunction with the Zimmerli Art Museum exhibition, Topographies of Dissent: Armenian Art […]
