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  The Society for Armenian Studies announces the release of Volume 28, Issue 1 (Spring 2021) of the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies (JSAS), edited by Tamar M. Boyadjian (Michigan State University) and Rachel Goshgarian (Lafayette College) the Reviews and Reconsiderations Editor. This volume of the JSAS includes four articles, one film review, one museum review, the newly …

As part of its ongoing cooperation with the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI), the Society for Armenian Studies donated around 130 academic books to the Museum in aiming to strengthen its library collection. The academic books included topics pertaining to the Armenian Genocide, late Ottoman history, comparative genocide, and the Holocaust. The collection totaled $2000.00 and included the latest scholarship published …

The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) sponsored two panels at the 55th Annual Conference of Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and one panel during the 53rd Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Panels held during the MESA conference included, “Early Modern Mobilities: People, Animals, and Objects within and beyond the Ottoman Empire,” followed …

  On Saturday, November 20, the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) sponsored a talk via ZOOM by Prof. Armen Sargsyan, President of Artsakh State University (ArSU), on the past, present, and future of the university. The SAS and Artsakh State University recently signed a memorandum of understanding that deepens the links with the Republic of Artsakh. During his talk, Sargsyan …

  The Promise Armenian Institute (PAI) at UCLA is pleased to announce Grant and Fellowship Opportunities for the 2022-2023 academic year. These opportunities are available to promote scholarship in areas relevant to the PAI mission.   These funding opportunities are described briefly below. More information can be found at the PAI Funding Opportunities website. Applications are generally accepted only once a year; for …

    The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) is pleased to announce that Katarina Terzyan has been appointed as the Executive Secretary of the SAS. The appointment comes at a time when SAS has dramatically expanded its activities in the United States, Armenia, and Artsakh. Since 2018, SAS membership has doubled, and its projects have multiplied in all dimensions in …

  The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) announces that Dr. Vazken Khatchig Davidian has been chosen to receive the SAS Distinguished Dissertation Award (2017-2020) for his dissertation “The Figure of the Bantoukhd Hamal of Constantinople: Late Nineteenth-Century Representations of Migrant Workers from Ottoman Armenia.” The SAS Award is accompanied by a $1,000 prize. Dr. Hrag Papazian’s “Contesting Armenianness: Plurality, Segregation …