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Rethinking Ottoman Cross-Cultural Encounters: Turks and the Armenian Alphabet
A lecture by Murat Cankara, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Introductory remarks by Sebouh Aslanian. Sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA.
Posted: 5/8/2013
Pontiff visits UCLA to discuss the future of Christianity in the Middle East
International Institute hosts Armenian spiritual leader Aram I as part of 20-day tour of Southern California
Posted: 10/26/2011
Pontiff discusses future of Christianity in the Middle East
Armenian spiritual leader Aram I stops at UCLA as part of 20-day tour of Southern California
Posted: 10/18/2011
The Future of Christianity in the Middle East
A lecture by His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of Cilicia.
Posted: 10/17/2011
Upcoming conference reflects on 20 years since fall of Soviet Union
To mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union, the UCLA Center for European and Eurasia Studies is bringing together international experts to discuss the political, economic and socio-cultural changes that have taken place in Russia and its successor states over the past two decades.
Posted: 10/10/2011
AUA President’s Visit to UCLA
American University of Armenia President Bruce Boghosian met with UCLA faculty and colleagues, with the goal of initiating fresh collaborations between the two institutions.
Posted: 6/1/2011
Popular Armenian Studies Professor to Deliver 'My Last Lecture'
On April 18, Richard Hovannisian will continue a campus tradition that began more than 55 years ago. He plans to continue lecturing to different audiences for years to come, even after he retires from UCLA this spring.
Posted: 4/15/2011
Calling High School Students: UCLA Has Summer Courses in Your Home Language
The Summer High School Language Program is geared toward students who speak one of the offered languages at home and want to improve their writing and reading skills.
Posted: 1/18/2011
Chemical Analysis Confirms Oldest Wine-Making Equipment Ever Found
UCLA scientists use new scientific method to verify vintage 4100 B.C. wine.
Posted: 1/11/2011
No Ordinary Family
Garin Hovannisian's relatives are the subject of his new book, "Family of Shadows," which intertwines the tragic and triumphant recent history of the Armenian people with his remarkable family.
Posted: 1/11/2011
Archaeologists Find Oldest Leather Shoe
The 5,500-year-old enclosed leather shoe, found with the laces intact, is of a type known in climes distant from Armenia.
Posted: 6/9/2010
Connected Revolutions: Armenians and the Russian, Ottoman, and Iranian Revolutions in the Early Twentieth Century
A public lecture by Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach, delivered on May 28, 2008.
Posted: 6/11/2008
Armenians at Home
UCLA historian Richard Hovannisian instructs local K-12 teachers on more than a century of Armenian migrations to Southern California and elsewhere. His archive of interviews with 800 survivors of the Armenian Genocide is now digitized, with transcriptions and translations in the works.
Posted: 9/7/2006
UCLA Hosts Talks on Armenian Genocide
An Oct. 6 conference on the Armenian Genocide marked the first time Turkish scholars outside Turkey have challenged their government's position on the genocide, organizers said.
Posted: 11/7/2005
The People Who Cover Up Genocide
UCLA panel looks at people and governments who deny or explain away the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the killing of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994, and the ongoing massacres in the Darfur provinces of Sudan.
Posted: 3/3/2005
U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, John M. Evans, Speaks at UCLA
Recently appointed U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia, John Marshall Evans, visited UCLA on February 17, 2005 to address students, faculty, and the public in an informative talk titled "Report from Armenia, 2005."
Posted: 2/22/2005
Honoring the Man
The Armenian National Academy of Sciences marked the 70th birthday and 50th anniversary of public and professional service of the world-renowned UCLA scholar, the talented and devoted Armenian, Richard G. Hovannisian.
Posted: 6/11/2003
High Level Cultural Delegation from Armenia Meets with UCLA Film & Television Archive Specialists
Armenia's Deputy Minister of Culture and the head of their public television network were part of a group that met with UCLA specialists in film preservation April 2.
Posted: 4/22/2003
Opponents of Human Trafficking from Transcaucasia Tour U.S. to Share Information
Government officials from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia visit UCLA as part of training mission to stop the new human slavery.
Posted: 2/11/2003
