Ubiquitous greetings of ‘parev, pari yegav’ alongside ‘merhaba, hoşgeldiniz’ were heard upon arrival as over thirty people assembled for the event. This evening was the fourth in the Towards 2015 lecture series, hosted by the Programme of Armenian Studies in the run-up to the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. (more…)

If you have been on Dr Krikor Moskofian’s mailing list for long, you may have noticed, and possibly even read, the brief reports that are usually sent out a few days (or if I’m the one writing, more than a few days) following these events that he organises. In order to fully relay to those who weren’t able to make it the content of this important talk (jointly organized by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Programme of Armenian Studies) this report is longer than usual.

As you may know, the UK branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation was previously based at Portland Place, but moved to its current address in Hoxton Square in 2009 under the leadership of Mr Andrew Barnett, who was appointed director of the UK branch two years earlier. (more…)

The speaker at this evening’s event, the first of the academic year hosted by the Programme of Armenian Studies in London, was the researcher, choirmaster and conductor Haig Utidjian. At the beginning of this month in Echmiadzin, he informs us, the Bishops’ Synod of the Armenian Church took place for the first time in six centuries. (more…)

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Կիրակի, 21 յուլիս, 2013

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In this era of colossal lecture theatres luxuriously endowed by well-meaning magnates, it was a rare treat to be able to encounter Dr Aslanian within such a relaxed and informal setting as Hye Doon in Kensington. The distinguished professor of UCLA shared with us in a candid and yet engaging fashion the projected aims and initial findings of his new research project on the role of Armenian print within the early modern period and the historiography of global print culture. (more…)

A crowd of a slightly different demographic from usual gathered for the third in the Programme of Armenian Studies’ Towards 2015 series of events on the Armenian Genocide. Dr David Gaunt, lecturer in history at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies at Södertörn University in Stockholm, came to talk not about the Armenian Genocide, but the genocide of another people who inhabited Eastern Anatolia during the violent early years of the twentieth century: the Assyrians, or, if you prefer, the Syriacs or Suryoyo. (more…)

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…)