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Remembering Professor Richard G. Hovannisian: Looking Back, Moving Forward Symposium Participants
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PAI Year-End Newsletter for 2025

As 2025 draws to a close, we would like to take this opportunity to reflect on this extraordinary year and thank all of you for......more

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2026-27 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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His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Holy See Of Cilicia, Visited UCLA

An Address at UCLA by His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia....more

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The Path of Armenology in the United States

Professor Peter Cowe's conversation with Sos Janibekyan of First Channel America for the TV program America's Armenian Roots (Interview in Armenian)....more

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AGRP Updates on Recent Work and Future Initiatives

The AGRP has been engaged in a number of important research activities and new initiatives during the past year....more

Upcoming and Recent Events

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Literary Lights 2025: Featuring Tenny Arlen's To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here?

The final installment of the International Armenian Literary Alliance's Literary Lights 2025 reading... more
Saturday, December 6, 2025
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Pacific Time)
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Past-Proofing the Future: Theorizing the Erasure of Djulfa, Twenty Years On

Virtual lecture by Simon Maghakyan, Ph.D., with commentary by Professor Peter Cowe, Ph.D.. more
Monday, December 1, 2025
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Pacific Time)
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Women's Daily Life in Exile (1915-1918)

Hybrid lecture by Dr. Anna Aleksanyan, a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Armenian Genocide Research Program... more
Monday, November 17, 2025
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Pacific Time)
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The Armenian Diaspora Quartet: Nancy Kricorian's Four Novels About Post-Genocide Experience

In-person only lecture by novelist Nancy Kricorian organized by the HASOM Armenian Music... more
Thursday, October 30, 2025
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (Pacific Time)
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Saving Our Planet: A Top Global Priority

An Address at UCLA by His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Holy See of... more
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (Pacific Time)