Armenian Studies Program

2025-2026

April 23, 2026
Fresno premiere screening of "Mayrig"
with Dr. David Zakarian, discussant

April 14, 2026
"Karen Jeppe, the Danish Mother of the Armenians and Her Postwar Rescue Efforts"
Dr. Anna Aleksanyan

April 10, 2026
"What's Next? Armenian Genocide Restitution in the Post-Recognition Era"
Dr. Taner Akçam and Carla Garapedian

March 27, 2026
"Armenians, the Hidden Grandmothers"
CineCulture Movie

March 22, 2026
Armenian Studies Program 38th Annual Banquet

March 12, 2026
"Armenia in 2035: What it Can and Should Be"
Sassoon Grigorian

March 6, 2026
"Armenian Women’s Daily Life in Transit and Concentration Camps (1915-1918)"
Dr. Anna Aleksanyan

February 13, 2026
"displaced"
A photographic journey through Beirut
Ara Oshagan

February 6, 2026
"Trabzon Armenian Women's Experiences During the Genocide"
Dr. Anna Aleksanyan

January 30, 2026
"Aghtamar: The Armenian Architectural Masterpiece"
Hrair Hawk Khatcherian

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December 5, 2025
"An Armenian Futūḥ Narrative: Łewond’s Eighth-Century History of the Caliphate"
Dr. Alison Vacca and Dr. Sergio La Porta

November 14, 2025
"Homeland vs. Home: When a Call to Return to the Homeland is Not Answered" 
The Experience of the Musa Dagh Armenians in Anjar, Lebanon during the repatriation period-1946-1948
Kevork Oflazian

November 7, 2025
"Medieval Book Curses: How Armenians Guarded Their Manuscripts"
Dr. David Zakarian

October 24, 2025
"Armenians in Film"  Six Films by Armenian Filmmakers

October 17-18, 2025
International Conference-"A New History-Writing on Late Ottoman-Turkish History: The Impact of Memoirs"

September 25, 2025
"Preserving Identity Through Sound: Armenians in California 1900-1960"
Andrew Hagopian

September 19, 2025
"There Was, There Was Not" Movie screening
director Emily Mkrtichian

September 5, 2025
"Nazi Looted Art Recovery as a Model for AGLA: Armenian Genocide Looted Art”
Prof. Michael Bazyler and Dr. Taner Akçam

August 25, 2025
"The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860-1979"
Dr. Houri Berberian and Dr. Talinn Grigor