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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

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SAS to Mark 50th Anniversary with International Conference at Harvard and NAASR

The Society for Armenian Studies is set to celebrate its 50th anniversary with a three-day international conference from September 13 to 15 at Harvard University......more

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UCLA and AUA Launch ‘Community Wellbeing Project' in Armenia

In response to the mass forced displacement of Nagorno-Karabakh's entire population in September 2023 and the resulting humanitarian crisis, the AUA Turpanjian College of Health......more

Upcoming and Recent Events

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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)
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'The Very Limit of Our Endurance': Rev. Hovhannes Eskijian and His Network of Resisters during the Armenian Genocide

The second Kerr Family Lecture will feature Khatchig Mouradian, Ph.D., lecturer in Middle Eastern, South... more
Friday, October 18, 2024
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Pacific Time)