2026 Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | Poetry, Traumatic History, Memory: Thinking about the Armenian Genocide
Peter Balakian (Colgate University)
How can a past historical event be transformed by literature that comes after? Pulitzer Prize winning poet Peter Balakian will discuss the...
Imagining Palestine-Israel
A Conversation with Maurice Ebileeni (University of Haifa) and Shachar Pinsker (University of Michigan), Moderated by Maya Barzilai (University of Michigan)
We invite you to a moderated conversation around a forthcoming special issue of the journal Palestine/Israel Review, titled “Imagining...
Manoogian Postdoctoral Lecture | Purist Pursuits: Language, Global Ideas, and the Creation of Western Armenian in the Ottoman Empire
Jennifer Manoukian (University of Michigan)
This lecture follows Armenians in the Ottoman Empire through a dramatic linguistic transformation, the aftershocks of which are still being...
Guest Lecture | Heritage Forensics: Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
Lori Khatchadourian (Cornell University)
This talk introduces the concept of heritage forensics, a framework for studying abuses of cultural heritage in contexts of conflict,...
