Event Flyer It is our esteemed pleasure to invite you in joining Melkonian Global Overture, to celebrate 50 Years of Narekatsi Armenian Studies Chair at UCLA. On January 19, 2019,  MGO will host Living Diaspora, a day of events at UCLA to support the Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies and other important language studies programs...

Event Flyer Living Diaspora Concert Artistic Director Greg Hosharian. Featuring: Tinie T, Mihran Kirakosian, Jacob Armen, R-Mean, Ayline Amirayan, Alene Aroustamian, Jon Vato, and Hovig  Demirjian. Royce Hall | 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Ticketed Event   To reserve your tickets please visit: Ticketmaster Royce Hall

Dr. Gohar Shahnazaryan is Director of the Yerevan State University Center for Gender and Leadership Studies (www.ysu.am/gender) and Co-Director of the Women’s Resource Center NGO (www.womenofarmenia.org) in Armenia. She holds a PhD in Sociology. Currently Dr. Shahnazaryan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Sociology at YSU. She was a visiting scholar at...

Sponsored by the Herb Alpert School of Music Co-sponsored by Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Symposium: "East and West: Search for Meeting Point" 2:00pm - 5:30pm March 6th, Jan Popper Theater FREE ADMISSION Armenia’s foremost living composer’s 80th anniversary is celebrated during a day-long symposium. Featured symposium speakers include composer/pianist Artur Avanesov (Armenia); Artistic Administrator...

The presentation discusses the emergence of theater among Ottoman Armenians in the 19th century in the context of modernization and national awakening and the role Armenian actresses had in the development and popularization of the art. Theater played the dual role of reflecting and serving as an agent of sociocultural and political shifts. Largely concentrating...

6:30 p.m.-7:00 Refreshments   7:00-7:10 Opening Remarks Ara Mandjikian - Director of the 2019 Undergraduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies                  Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA Dr. S. Peter Cowe - Narekatsi Professor of Armenian Studies Near Eastern Languages and                Cultures, UCLA   Panel 1: Contemporary Issues of Armenian Language Acquisition Chair: Ani...

Dr. Anahid Aramouni Keshishian is Lecturer in Eastern Armenian in the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. She received her BA from both Yerevan State University and the University of Laverne, while gaining her Ph.D from the Institute of Literature in Yerevan. Her dissertation on American-Armenian author Hagop Karapents was published by the...

Armen Grigoryan, Secretary of the Security Council in the Republic of Armenia, gained his BA in International Relations from Yerevan State University and MA in the same field from the American University of Armenia. Since then he has participated in various international educational projects inter aliain the USA, Finland, and Italy. Recently, he served concurrently...

Dr. Hagop Gulludjian is in charge of Western Armenian at UCLA within the Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies. He holds a doctorate of Letters and an MBA. He has researched and published on medieval Armenian poetry; heritage language and language vitality; interactions between virtuality, culture and diasporas; and modern to postmodern Diaspora Armenian literature. Currently,...