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Saturday, November 18, 2017 Noon-3:00PM Marriott Wardman Park Hotel 2660 Woodley Rd NW Washington, D.C. You are cordially invited to attend a conference on “Transmitting Western Armenian to the Next Generation,” co-sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program and the Armenian Communities Department of the Gulbenkian Foundation. The conference is being held in conjunction with the Society for Armenian Studies Annual …

FOR THE 300TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE MEKHITARIST ABBEY OF SAN LAZZARO IN VENICE (1717-2017) The Mekhitarist Congregation is delighted to announce the official inauguration of the ceremonies for the 300th Jubilee of the Foundation of the Mekhitarist Abbey of San Lazzaro in the Venetian Lagoon. The official start of the Jubilee year on September 8th was preceded by a series …

Haigazian University Press has issued the 37th volume of the Haigazian Armenological Review. The 724-page volume includes 39 research and investigative articles, unpublished documents, briefings, book reviews and obituaries. The articles touch upon various current and past issues and topics all related to Armenian studies, like Armenian identity, language, traditions and beliefs, religion, medieval literature and music, toponyms, trade, party …

Miss Harnack with a group of (Armenian) orphans. Photo credit: Der Christliche Orient (Vol.15, 1914) Ninth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop April 20-21, 2018 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 455 Weiser Hall 500 Church Street Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1042 Abstracts are due on November 15, 2017. In recent years, the study of childhood and youth has gained increasing attention that …

Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Postgasse 7/1/3, 1010 Vienna, Austria Call for Papers Graduate and Early Career Workshop: ‘Armenia & Byzantium without Borders’ University of Vienna, 20–22 April 2018 Within the framework of ‘Moving Byzantium: Mobility, Microstructure and Personal Agency,’ a five-year project begun at the University of Vienna in 2016 and funded through the Wittgenstein-Prize (http://rapp.univie.ac.at), ‘Armenia …

The Armenian Studies Program of Fresno State will hold an international conference exploring the topic of “Armenians, Greeks, and Kurds: A People’s History of the Ottoman Empire” to be held on Friday, September 22 and Saturday, September 23, 2017. Ottoman history is often studied through the lens of Ottoman Turkish archives, sometime neglecting the important contribution of Armenian and other …

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations seeks applications for a part-time lecturer in Armenian language. The appointment is expected to begin on September 1, 2017. The lecturer will be responsible for teaching three courses: in elementary (one in Fall and one Spring) Western Armenian, and one in some aspect of Armenian civilization (in English). The position is for …

The Robert and Elizabeth Dole Archive and Special Collections is currently accepting applications for a $2500 Archival Fellowship, in conjunction with the closing year of University of Kansas’ World War I Commemoration.  The Archival Fellow will work with Dole Archives staff to evaluate relevant archival holdings and develop a topic guide and online teaching module based on Senator Bob Dole’s …

Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Postgasse 7/1/3, 1010 Vienna, Austria Call for Papers Graduate and Early Career Workshop: ‘Armenia & Byzantium without Borders’ University of Vienna, 20–22 April 2018   Within the framework of ‘Moving Byzantium: Mobility, Microstructure and Personal Agency,’ a five-year project begun at the University of Vienna in 2016 and funded through the Wittgenstein-Prize (http://rapp.univie.ac.at), …