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Remembering Professor Richard G. Hovannisian: Looking Back, Moving Forward Symposium Participants
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Recent News

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PAI Year-End Newsletter for 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, we would like to take this opportunity to reflect on the past year and thank you for being a......more

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Release of Documentary on Armenian Genocide Looted Art and Restitution

The film explores questions about the possibilities of creating an Armenian genocide reparation movement post-recognition, the opportunities within the American legal system for reparation, and......more

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2025-26 UCLA Promise Armenian Institute Grant and Fellowship Opportunities

PAI funding opportunities are available to promote research in fields represented within Armenian studies, such as Armenian language, literature, and history, as well as all......more

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The Second Annual Kerr Family Lecture Held at UCLA, Focusing on Rev. Hovhannes Eskijian and His Network of Resisters during the Armenian Genocide

The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA — The UCLA Promise Armenian Institute hosted its second annual Kerr Family Endowed Lecture,......more

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USAID Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia Meets with Armenian American Community in Southern California

On Friday, August 30, 2024, PAI Director Prof. Ann Karagozian met with Ambassador Erin McKee, USAID Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia, and other Armenian......more

Upcoming and Recent Events

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Conference on Protection and Preservation of Armenian Cultural Heritage Sites

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Saturday, February 8, 2025
8:00 AM - 7:00 PM (Pacific Time)
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Three Homelands: A Sergei Parajanov Retrospective

The UCLA Film & Television Archive and American Cinematheque present a comprehensive centennial retrospective of... more
Saturday, November 23, 2024
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Pacific Time)
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An Analytical-Discursive Tripod: The Armenian 'Mahmet', Pax Islamica, and 'Ghuran'

Scholar Seta B. Dadoyan discusses lesser-known Armenian texts reflecting Islamic-Armenian interaction – such as translations... more
Thursday, November 21, 2024
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Pacific Time)
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Film Screening: "Strangers in a Promised Land"

A screening of the remastered 1984 documentary about the struggles of Armenian immigrants arriving in... more
Friday, November 15, 2024
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM (Pacific Time)
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Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908

Hybrid lecture by İlkay Yılmaz, Ph.D., a DFG (German Research Foundation) funded research associate at... more
Monday, November 4, 2024
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Pacific Time)