Society for Armenian Studies Holds Annual Membership Meeting in New Orleans
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 …
Read MoreBerberian’s and Zeitlian Watenpaugh’s Books Chosen as Der Mugrdechian SAS Outstanding Book Award Recipients
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 …
Read MoreSAS Awards Research and Travel Grants to Graduate Students for Fall 2019
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 …
Read MoreGevork M. Avedissian Professorship of Armenian History and Civilization at Columbia
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 …
Read MoreFrom 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 …
Read MoreCall 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, …
Read MoreCall 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. …
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MoreMajor 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 …
Read MoreSociety for Armenian Studies to Hold 45th Anniversary Banquet October 12
SAS Banquet invitation 2019-pdf
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