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A Day of Armenian Music

The UCLA Armenian Music Program and Director Movses Pogossian invite you to a virtual event...

Friday, May 21, 2021

Internment and Destruction: Concentration Camps During the Armenian Genocide

The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA presents "Internment and Destruction: Concentration Camps During the Armenian...

Friday, May 7, 2021

Self-Determination, Remedial Secession and International Law: The Artsakh Crisis in Comparative Perspective

Remedial secession, a process whereby a people can declare independence, is a nebulous concept in...

Thursday, April 29, 2021

The Unspoken as Heritage: The Armenian Genocide and Its Unaccounted Lives

The UCLA Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History presents the inaugural ...

Thursday, April 22, 2021

[Hammer Museum Concert] In Remembrance: Treasures of Armenian Classical, Contemporary & Folk Music

The UCLA Armenian Music Program and the Hammer Museum present...

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

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Paging through Photos and Songs: Hayganush Mark and Koharig Ghazarosian's Friendship in Post-Genocide Istanbul

The Promise Institute for Human Rights and The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, in partnership...

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

The Treatment of Prisoners of War: New Legal Developments and the Example of the Nagorno-Karabakh/Artsakh Conflict

The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law presents a panel discussion examining the...

Friday, April 16, 2021

Armenia: How Did We End Up Here? Where Can We Go? What Can We Do?

A conversation between Dr. Libaridian and UCLA's Armenian community....

Friday, April 9, 2021

After the Second Karabakh War: Reenvisioning the Diaspora

The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA and the Armenian Students' Association ...

Monday, March 29, 2021

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Feminism, Theology, and Liberation in Mari Baylerian's Writings

The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA presents "Feminism, Theology, and Liberation in Mari Beylerian's Writings"...

Friday, March 19, 2021

What Does a Small Nation Know? Armenians and the Wages of Nationalism

The UCLA Promise Armenian Institute presents the third in its Distinguished Lecture Series, "What Does...

Friday, February 12, 2021

2021 UCLA Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies

This Colloquium is an annual international conference for graduate students in the Humanities/Social Sciences to...

Saturday, February 6, 2021

Addressing the humanitarian crisis in Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh

The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA and the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA...

Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Special Screening of "Songs Of Solomon"

Please join us for a special screening of Songs Of Solomon, featuring a conversation with...

Friday, January 22, 2021

[Non-PAI Event] Truth and Accountability: Ethnic Cleansing in the Modern Age

In recognition of Human Rights Day and the United Nations International Day of Commemoration and...

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Songs of Gratitude

Organized by UCLA professor of violin and director of the Armenian Music Program, Movses Pogossian,...

Sunday, November 29, 2020

A Foe of Injustice and Prejudice: Srpuhi Dussap and the Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Armenian Feminist Thought

Lecture with Melissa Bilal (UCLA)...

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh and the Palimpsests of Conflict, Violence, and Memory

The Armenian Studies Center of the UCLA Promise Armenian Institute presents "Nagorno Karabakh/Artsakh and the...

Saturday, October 31, 2020

Cemal Pasha's Role in the Armenian Genocide

The UCLA Promise Armenian Institute presents the second in its Distinguished Lecture Series, "Cemal Pasha's...

Thursday, October 22, 2020

[Cotsen Institute: Virtual Pizza Talk] The Earliest Farmers of The Caucasus: A View From Masis Blur

Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky, Postdoctoral Scholar, CIoA, UCLA, and Alan Farahani, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UNLV.

Virtual Pizza...

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

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