The second instalment in the Programme of Armenian Studies’ Towards 2015 series ― a programme of lectures and other events commemorating the Armenian Genocide ― saw Dr Uğur Ümit Üngör of Utrecht University deliver a lecture on the issue of the Genocide in memory. The guests were greeted warmly as they entered by the Programme of Armenian Studies’ founder and director, Dr Krikor Moskofian, and after an impressive introduction by Ara Sarafian, Dr Üngör launched into the lecture. (more…)

The audience that assembled at SOAS and filled the Khalili Lecture Theatre for the newly founded Programme of Armenian Studies’ inaugural event, the screening of director Suzanne Khardalian’s film Grandma’s Tattoos, had not come for an evening’s light entertainment. Near as we were to 24 April, when the passing of ninety-eight years since the Armenian Genocide would be commemorated around the world, this moving and unsettling film was all the more poignant. (more…)