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  We, as Chairs, Directors, and Lecturers of Armenian Studies in the U.S., condemn the latest unprovoked aggression by Azerbaijan against Armenia. On September 13, 2022 at 12:05 AM, Azerbaijan launched a massive attack on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. Using heavy artillery as well as UAVs and MRLs, Azerbaijani forces shelled the cities of Vardenis, Goris, Kapan, Sotk and Jermuk (and …

  The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) condemns the latest unprovoked aggression by Azerbaijan against Armenia. On September 13, 2022 at 12:05 AM, Azerbaijan launched a massive attack on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. Using heavy artillery as well as UAVs and MRLs, the Azerbaijani forces shelled the cities of Vardenis, Goris, Kapan, Sotk and Jermug and the surrounding villages resulting so far …

  The Society for Armenian Studies announces the release of Volume 28, Issue 2 (Fall 2022) of the Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies (JSAS), edited by Dr. Tamar M. Boyadjian (Michigan State University), the Editor-in-Chief, and Dr. Rachel Goshgarian (Lafayette College), the Reviews and Reconsiderations editor on the theme of Armenian women in theater, cinema, and music. “Performance …

  The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) recently announced the recipients of its Spring 2022 Graduate Research and Conference Grants. The three recipients were Atineh Movsesian, for her research exploring the role of women as patrons at the Gandzasar monastery, Ani Ohanian for her research on the collaboration between Bolsheviks and Kemalists in the South Caucasus region between 1917 to 1923 and …

  The Society for Armenian Studies is excited to announce that it will host a major, in-person conference on September 17-18, 2022, hosted at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) in Belmont, MA. Technologies of Communication and Armenian Narrative Practices Through the Centuries aims to foster an interdisciplinary conversation with researchers working across historical periods grounded in …

  The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) recently announced the recipients of its 2019-2021 “Best Conference Paper Award.” The two recipients were Natalie Kamajian, for her paper “Performing Paradox: Balleticized Bodies and Soviet Cultural Hegemony in Armenia Stage Dance,” and Jennifer Manoukian, for her paper “The “Discovery” of the Rural Ottoman Armenian: Ethnography, Linguistic Legitimacy and the Making of a …

  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 …