News & Events

  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 …

          USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research Deadline: February 15, 2022 The USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research is inviting proposals for its three research fellowships for advanced-standing PhD candidates. Each fellowship provides $4,000 support and will be awarded to an outstanding advanced-standing PhD candidate from any discipline for dissertation research focused on testimony …

An Intermediate Classical Armenian Summer school is being offered at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library in Collegeville, Minnesota in summer 2022, taught by SAS members Prof. Abraham Terian and Dr. Jesse Arlen. Apart from travel costs to Minnesota, the course fees as well as room & board, will be fully covered for admitted students, thanks to funding from Dumbarton …

        The 2020 Karabakh (Artsakh) War created new challenges and exacerbated unanswered questions about the future of regional relations and the status of Karabakh / Artsakh. Following the Russia-brokered ceasefire of November 2020 that ended the second Karabakh War, and despite the presence of Russian peacekeepers on the ground, continuing military clashes on Karabakh’s borders and on …

  The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) has selected its awardees for its Graduate Research and Conference Grants Program for M.A. and Ph.D. Students for the Fall of 2021. Established in 2019, the aim of the Grants Program is to provide resources for graduate students to conduct research and present papers at conferences. Grants of up to $1000 are awarded …

The SAS Executive Council will award two (2) $500.00 prizes for the best paper presented by a graduate student at a conference between 2019-2021. Papers given at a conference should be sent electronically (pdf format) to SAS President Bedross Der Matossian, bdermatossian2@unl.edu. Deadline for submission: December 1, 2021 Papers may be in English or Armenian. The paper will be judged …

As part of its new policy to strengthen ties with academic institutions in Armenia and Artsakh, the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) signed an Agreement on Cooperation on October 25, 2021, with Artsakh State University (ArSU). The Agreement aims at cooperating on different academic projects that would be beneficial to both parties and to advance the field of Armenian Studies. …