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The Society for Armenian Studies announces the release of Volume 26 (2017) of the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies (JSAS), edited by Dr. Sergio La Porta. JSAS Volume 26 includes four articles, eight communications, and two book reviews. The articles in this issue address topics in Armenian religious practice, philology, the Armenian Genocide, contemporary literature and the transmission …

University of California, Los Angeles, Friday, February 15, 2019 We enthusiastically invite graduate students and recent post-docs (Ph.D within the last two years) in fields associated with Armenian Studies (broadly defined) to present their recent research. Work in progress is encouraged. Research papers are accepted on all aspects of Armenian studies, including, but not limited to: literature, history, gender studies, …

A workshop organized by Melissa Bilal and Lerna Ekmekcioglu, MIT Women and Gender Studies Program Free and open to the public. For questions: lerna@mit.edu APRIL 7, 2018 MIT Building 4, Room 237 9:00                      Breakfast 9:30-11:00           Feminist Armenian Studies: From Margin to Center Chair: Anna Aleksanyan (Clark University) Panelists: Melissa Bilal (University of Chicago) Lerna Ekmekcioglu (MIT) 11:00-11:15    Coffee Break 11:15-1:00 …

The Armenian Studies Program at UCI seeks applications for a part-time and temporary lecturer in Armenian language for the 2018-2019 academic year*. Responsibilities include teaching classes in beginning Armenian language (1A, 1B, 1C). The position is for one year, with possibility of renewal. Requirements: Ph.D. (in hand by 09/01/18), native or near-native proficiency in Armenian, and experience in teaching at …

The Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, invite applications for the Turpanjian Chair in Contemporary Armenian Studies. The search is rank-open (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor), and applications from all social science and humanities disciplines are welcome. Scholars …

Armenian Digital Resources Full Texts in Armenian on Hathi Trust Digital Library       https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?field1=ocr;q1=armenian;a=srchls;lmt=ft&facet=language008_full:%22Armenian%22 Armenian Research Academic Repository http://www.flib.sci.am/eng/node/2 Armenian Digital Collection at the University of Leiden https://socrates.leidenuniv.nl/R/LDYJGVG1T1IDUVYN4X2CN35UB1FQC6XUNAU475FSXXXKT8QHHS-02138 Armenian Manuscripts at UCLA http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0009gx2d Digital Library at AUA http://www.digilib.am/en Library of Congress: Manuscripts in the Libraries of the Greek and Armenian Patriarchates in Jerusalem https://www.loc.gov/collections/greek-and-armenian-patriarchates-of-jerusalem/about-this-collection/ The Hakob Meghapart Project http://greenstone.flib.sci.am/gsdl/cgibin/library.cgi?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=publishe&l=en&w=utf-8 Digital Library …

The Society for Armenian Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2016 “Best Conference Paper Award.” Recognized are co-winners Jennifer Manoukian for her paper “Translating the Colloquial Armenian of Late-Nineteenth Century Constantinople in Zabel Yessayan’s The Gardens of Silihdar,” and Piruza Hayrapetyan for her paper “The Armenian Ganj-Hymn – An “Originally Armenian” or a “Borrowed” Genre: Reshaping the …

Feb 1, 2018, 3:30-7:00pm, Undergrad Feb 2, 2018, 9:30am-6:00pm, Graduate University of California, Los Angeles Royce Hall 314 Catered Receptions to Follow With generous sponsorship from: Campus Programs Committee, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, Society for Armenian Studies, Center for European and Russian Studies, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology,  Promise Institute for Human …

  The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) held a series of activities and a conference to mark its 44th Annual Meeting, held this year in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, November 18, 2017. Members were welcomed by SAS President Barlow Der Mugrdechian (California State University, Fresno), who presented reports on various activities of the Society. Earlier that same day, the SAS …

On Wednesday, December 6, 2017, the SAS Executive Council held its first meeting. Executive Council officers were elected with Bedross Der Matossian (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) as the new SAS President. Also elected were Vice-President Vartan Matiossian (Armenian National Education Committee, NY); Secretary Khatchig Mouradian (Columbia University); Treasurer Vahe Sahakyan (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor); and advisors Alison Vacca (University of Tennessee-Knoxville), …