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From a Democratic Breakthrough to Challenges of Consolidation in Armenia

  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 …

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Call for Papers: Recollecting a Shared Polyphony: Popular Culture, Media Technologies and Heritagization of Music across the Mediterranean

A two-day workshop held on January 23-24, 2020 at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, Germany The nineteenth century witnessed the birth of media technologies of mechanical reproduction as well as popular culture and new patterns of consumption. Photography, sound recording and cinema revolutionized society, aesthetics, culture and politics throughout the 20th century. Common to these emergent technologies was the possible replication, …

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Call for Papers: Medicine, Madness, and Maladies of the Mind in Armenian Studies Past and Present

Eleventh Annual International Graduate Student Workshop April 10-11, 2020 In recent years, the history of medicine, mental illness, and the literary, anthropological, and sociological studies of madness have gained a remarkable momentum internationally. Still, there have been virtually no substantial studies of a premodern and modern understanding of medicine, madness, and maladies of the mind in Armenia and its Diaspora. …

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The Society for Armenian Studies Launches e-SAS (Entries of the Society for Armenian Studies)

The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) is pleased to announce e-SAS (Entries of the Society for Armenian Studies) an online open access, peer-reviewed platform for the publication of short, scholarly pieces pertaining to Armenian Studies. In line with its name, Entries, e-SAS aims to provide “entry points”—for the international academic community, as well as the general public—into Armenian-related topics and …

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Major International Conference on the Armenian Diaspora Will Mark the Society for Armenian Studies 45th Anniversary

UCLA, October 12-13, 2019 Scholars from Italy, Mexico, France, Armenia, England, Portugal, Holland, Germany, and the United States will gather on October 12-13 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to participate in a major conference, “Diaspora and ‘Stateless Power’: Social Discipline and Identity Formation across the Armenian Diaspora during the Long Twentieth Century,” marking the 45th anniversary of …

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