Topic: Armenian Studies

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Eminent Byzantinist and historian Dr. Speros Vryonis, Jr. passed away on March 11 peacefully in his sleep at the age of 90. Vryonis wrote extensively on Byzantine,[...]

LOS ANGELES — The Armenian Graduate Student Association of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will host its 17th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies on February 15[...]

NEW YORK — The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) announced that on December 3, Prof. Robert Hewsen, a noted Armenologist, had died. He was 84. Hewsen was a Professor Emeritus[...]

LONDON — Prof. Robert W. Thomson (1934-2018), former Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies at Oxford University (1992-2002), who died recently, is remembered by his colleagues and students for his[...]

IRVINE, Calif. — On September 29, the majority of current Armenian Studies chairs and directors in the United States, along with representatives of the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS), National[...]

LOS ANGELES — One simple — yet key — question set into motion 30 years of research: how many Armenians were actually massacred during the Armenian Genocide? This question was[...]

HALLE-WITTENBERG, Germany — It is a unique institution in the country, the only center specializing in Armenian studies, Armenology. When the Mesrop Arbeitsstelle für Armenische Studien (Mesrop Center for Armenian[...]

BOSTON – A pioneering all-day workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Saturday, April 7, is scheduled to bring together an international cast of scholars to assess the[...]

WORCESTER — For more than a century, Turkey has denied a role in organizing the Armenian Genocide. In his new book, Killing Orders: Talat Pasha’s Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide,[...]

FRESNO — On, December 6, the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) Executive Council held its first meeting. Executive Council officers were elected with Bedross Der Matossian (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) as[...]