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The Society for Armenian Studies invites applicants to apply for the Spring 2020 SAS Graduate Research and Conference Grants for M.A. and Ph.D. Students. The deadline is on April 6, 2020. Grants of up to $1000.00 per applicant will be awarded. Applicants must be current members of the Society for Armenian Studies. The grants will be on competitive basis.   …

                  Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies University of California, Los Angeles, Royce Hall 314 February 7, 2020   9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast   10:00 – 10:10 Opening Remarks Anatolii Tokmantcev Director of the 2020 Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA   Dr. S. Peter Cowe …

  Armenian Research Center University of Michigan-Dearborn 13-15 November 2020   A century after the establishment of Soviet rule in Eastern Armenia, the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn will hold a multidisciplinary academic conference on the theme “The Soviet Experience in Armenia and Its Legacy.” It will be held on the university’s campus in Dearborn, MI, over …

Classical Armenian Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM is organizing Classical Armenian language summer school in Yerevan, Armenia. The 3 weeks Grabar summer school will start on July 5, 2020 and will last until July 25, 2020.  Old Armenian language summer school will help the participants to become skillful in reading and interpreting Grabar texts. Details and application …

  http://genocide-museum.am/eng/Conference_ChildrenandNation2020.php Dates: June 24, 2020 – June 26, 2020 Location: Yerevan, Armenia Conference Fees: Early bird (before March 15): USD$150 Late registration (after March 15 and before April 30): USD$200 REGISTRATION FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS CLOSES: 11:59pm (GMT+4) Sunday December 15th (participants will be advised of the success or otherwise of their submission by early February 2020.) Please submit …

  The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) held its 45th annual member meeting and sponsored panels at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in New Orleans, LA. On the afternoon of Thursday, November 14, the first day of the broader MESA meeting, SAS President Bedross Der Matossian welcomed members of the SAS, updating them on …

  The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) announced that Houri Berberian’s Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds (Oakland: UC Press, 2019) and Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh’s The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice (Stanford University Press) have been chosen as the recipients of the Der Mugrdechian SAS Outstanding …

  The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) has chosen its awardees for the SAS “Graduate Research and Conference Grants Program for M.A. and Ph.D. Students” for Fall 2020. Established in 2019, the aim of the Grant Program is to provide resources for graduate students to conduct research and present papers at conferences. Grants of up to $500.00 are awarded semi-annually …

  The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University invites applications for a position in Armenian Studies, at the rank of associate or full professor. The position is intended to fill the Gevork M. Avedissian Professorship of Armenian History and Civilization. The department seeks a candidate with a distinguished record in Armenian Studies who will …

  Announcement of Research Support How to Apply Applications are due on October 20 Selections will be made by October 31 Grants will be awarded in the amounts of $2,000 to $6,000 This call aims to provide an opportunity for original academic and policy research that will address Armenia’s political transformation. In the Spring of 2018, the world watched as large-scale …