2026
March 12, 2026 | Annual Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Distinguished Lecture: “Threading the Tapestry for a Future Armenia." Levon Kafafian, Artist, and Dr. Marie-Aude Baronian, University of Amsterdam. Video
February 5, 2026 | CAS Workshop | "Photographic Genres, in and Beyond Archives." Dr. Edhem Eldem, Columbia University. Video
January 21, 2026 | "CAS Book Talk. Between Armenian(s): A Conversation with Arakel Minassian." Arakel Minassian, University of Michigan Graduate Student. Video
2025
December 3, 2025 | "Writing Waterline: Patterns in Contemporary Armenian Diaspora Narratives." Dr. Aram Mrjoian, University of Michigan. Video
March 11, 2025 | "The Mormon Colony Scheme in the Late Ottoman Empire: Attempts to Alleviate the Abject Poverty Facing Armenian Converts to Mormonism (1897-1928)." Dr. Kent Schull, Associate Professor, Binghamton University SUNY. Video
February 21, 2025 | CAS Workshop | "From Schism to Union and Back: Eastern Christians and Catholic Expansion in the Age of Confessionalism." Video Playlist: Keynote | Panel 1 | Panel 2 | Panel 3
February 4, 2025 | "Diluted Wine, Disguised Belief: Catholic Ethnography of the Armenian Rite in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth." Dr. Bogdan Pavlish, 2024-25 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow in Armenian History. Video
January 24, 2025 | CAS Workshop | "Becoming and Unbecoming Imperial Subjects: Mobility, Exclusion, and (Real/Discursive) Borders." Video Playlist
January 16, 2025 | "Needs of the Armenian Apostolic Church: In the Context of Contemporary Political Processes and Social Modernization Trends." Dr. Arthur Atanesyan, Yerevan State University. Video
2024
November 7, 2024 | "Making “Mena”: Histories of the “Middle East,” Race, and the US Census." Dr. Thomas Simsarian Dolan, Lead Historian, Armenian General Benevolent Union. Video
November 5, 2024 | "They Vowed Never to Return: Armenian Transatlantic Mobility and Abandoned Ottomans." Dr. Hazal Özdemir, 2024 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow. Video
October 24, 2024 | "Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908." Dr. Ilkay Yilmaz, Freie Universität Berlin. Video
October 2, 2024 | "For Us the Deserts are Buzzing Cities: Early Soviet Yerevan between Armenian Futurism and Post-Persian Retrotopia." Dr. David Leupold, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin. Video
September 25, 2024 | "Nagorno-Karabakh: The Next Chapter." Dr. Philip Gamaghelyan, University of San Diego. Video
February 16, 2024 | "Where Empires Meet: Borderland Cosmopolitanisms in the Late Antique and Medieval Middle East." Dr. Kate Franklin, Birkbeck, University of London. Video
2023
December 6, 2023 | "A Precarious Armenia: When Does the Future Look Like the Past?" Dr. Gerard Jirair Libaridian, Emeritus at the University of Michigan. Video
November 10-11, 2023 | CAS Workshop | “Armenian and Turkish Scholarship': WATS XI From the Foundational Crime to Making of a New State (and Nation)." Video Playlist
October 11, 2023 | "Early Modernity, the Armenian Printing Revolution, and Imagining the “Confessional Nation” across the Armenian Diaspora,1680-1800." Dr. Sebouh David Aslanian, Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Video
September 18, 2023 | "Remnants: Embodied Archives of the Armenian Genocide." Dr. Elyse Semerdjian, Chair of Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. Video
2022-23
April 6-7, 2023 | CAS 2023 International Graduate Student Workshop | The Quotidian and the Divine: Early Modern Gendered Economies of Monasticism in the Eastern Christian World." Video Playlist
February 23-24, 2023 | CAS Workshop | "Negotiating 'Ambiguous Race': Hierarchies of Citizenship and Belonging in the Empires of the Ancient Mediterranean." Video Playlist
January 11, 2023 | "Kings of Rome, Rulers of Heaven: Conceptions of Sovereignty and Empire in Syriac and Armenian Historiography." Dr. James Wolfe, 2022-23 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow. Video
November 4, 2022 | "Modern State and "Internal" Colonialism: People, Places, and Power across Empire and Nation-State." Various conference speakers and panelists. Video
October 6, 2022 | "The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century." Bedross Der Matossian, Vice-Chair, Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History, and Hymen Rosenberg Professor in Judaic studies at the Department of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Video
September 14, 2022 | "A Disease in the Lungs of Anatolia: Politics of Reform and Modernization at the intersection of Armenian, Kurdish, and Kizilbash Questions across Empire and Nation-State." Cevat Dargin, Manoogian Postdoc Fellow, University of Michigan. Video
2021-22
April 20, 2022 | "The Geography of Genocide: Mapping Refugee Movement at the End of World War I." Michelle Tusan, Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Video
April 7, 2022 | 2022 Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | "Performing the Archive: A Conversation on Art, Engagement, and Armenianness." Arsinée Khanjian, actress, performer, producer, and civil rights activist and Marie-Aude Baronian, Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam. Video
March 16, 2022 | "Shaping the Landscape or Invisible Landscapes? Some Medieval Armenian Monastic Complexes between Past and Present." Zaroui Pogossian, Associate Professor of Byzantine Civilization, University of Florence. Video
March 12, 2022 | "A Hit Parade of Historical Turns: From A Russian Perspective." Video Playlist
March 11, 2022 | "Celebrating Forty Years of Armenian Studies | Armenian Transformations, 1981-2021: How Forty Years of Michigan Armenian Studies Looked at Imperial Collapse, Ethnic War, and the Rebirth of Independence." Video
February 23, 2022 | "Contrapuntal Montage in the Films of Artavazd Peleshian." Daniel Fairfax, Assistant Professor in Film Studies, Goethe Universität-Frankfurt. Video
February 10 and 11, 2022. Workshop | "Dispossession and Its Legacies: Comparisons, Intersections, and Connections." Video Playlist
January 26, 2022 | Diana Kardumyan and her Short Films (“Tombe” and “Dialogues”). Diana Kardumyan, artist and filmmaker. Video
Januaury 12, 2021 | "Toward a Theorization of Nested Memory." Helen Makhdoumian, 2021-22 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow. Video
November 18, 2021 | "Imagined Landscapes and Crafted Worlds: Spacetime and Natureculture in Medieval Armenia." Kate Franklin, Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in History, Classics and Archeology, Birkbeck University of London. Video
October 27, 2021 | Nora Martirosyan and her film “Should the Wind Drop” (2020). Nora Martirosyan, Film Director and Artist. Video
October 8, 2021 | "Environmental Activism in Armenia: From Forests to Land to Water." Ruben Khachatryan, Director of Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Assets and JeanMarie Papelian, Executive Director of Armenia Tree Project. Video
October 7, 2021 | "Landscapes of War: The Impact of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict on the Environment and its Human and Non-Human Inhabitants Past and Present." Video
“Investigating the Environmental Dimensions of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict”
Dr. Eoghan Darbyshire, Researcher, Conflict and Environment Observatory.
“Weaponizing the Environment: The Silencing of the Nagorno-Karabakh’s Impact on the Landscape and its Human and Non-Human Inhabitants”
Mariam Yeghiazaryan, Independent Journalist and Filmmaker.
October 6, 2021 | "Armenia's Climate Crisis: Challenges & Opportunities." Dr. Irina Ghaplanyan, Political Scientist, Climate Negotiator, and former Deputy Minister of the Environment of the Republic of Armenia. Video
September 22, 2021 | "Daniel Tahmizian and 'The Wanderer' (2017)." Daniel Tahmizian, Film Director and Writer. Video
September 8, 2021 | "'Let Them Taste Hunger': Famine, Inequality, and Communal Belonging in the Late Ottoman Empire." Matthew Ghazarian, 2021-22 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
2020-21
April 22, 2021 | "The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression." Dirk Moses, Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Commentator: Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History, University of Michigan. Video
March 24, 2021 | "Recovering an Art: David Ohannessian and the Armenian Ceramics of Jerusalem." Sato Moughalian, Award-winning Flutist and Author of “Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian." Video
March 10, 2021 | "Artist Spotlight Stories: Oksana Mirzoyan." Oksana Mirzoyan, Artist and Filmmaker. Video
February 18 & 19, 2021. Workshop | "From Empire to Nation-State: The Ottoman Armistice, Imagined Borders, and Displaced Populations (1918-1923)." Video Playlist
February 3, 2021 | "Sojourners, Smugglers, and Dubious Citizens: The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885-1915." David Gutman, Associate Professor of History, Manhattanville College. Video
January 20, 2021 | "Armenians and the End of Ottomans: Envisioning Peace in Occupied Istanbul (1918- 1923)." Ari Şekeryan, 2020-21 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
December 2, 2020 | "Post-Screening Q&A with Filmmaker Tamara Stepanyan (Village of Women)." Tamara Stepanyan, film director and producer and Michael Pifer, Lecturer, Department of Middle East Studies, U-M. Video
November 18, 2020. Webinar | "The Lebanonization of Armenians." Tsolin Nalbantian, Assistant Professor of Modern Middle East History, Leiden University. Video
November 4, 2020. Webinar | "Life Extempore: Trials of Ruination in Armenia’s Soviet Factories." Lori Khatchadourian, Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University. Video
October 16, 2020. Webinar | "Scripts, Sounds, and Songs: Mediating History in the Caucasus and Beyond (Part 2) | Other Archives of Armenian History." Presenters: Alex MacFarlane, 2020-21 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, Armen Abkarian, PhD student, Department of History, and Michael Pifer, Lecturer, Department of Middle East Studies. Discussant: Rebecca Gould, Professor of Islamic World and Comparative Literature, University of Birmingham. Video
October 9, 2020. Webinar | "Scripts, Sounds, and Songs: Mediating History in the Caucasus and Beyond (Part 1). Crosscultural Archives and Contrapuntal Reading: Three Texts from an Era of Transition." Harsha Ram, Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley; Discussant: Samuel Hodgkin, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University. Video
October 3, 2020. Panel Discussion | "The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Between Diplomacy and Spheres of Influence." Panelists: Laurence Broers, Associate Fellow at Chatham House and Program Director of Conciliation Resources; Professor Gerard Libaridian (Emeritus), former senior advisor to the first President of the Republic of Armenia; Anna Ohanyan, Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Stonehill College; and Ronald Grigor Suny, William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History, U-M. Video
September 23, 2020. Film Discussion | "Post-Screening Q/A with Filmmaker Gariné Torossian (Artist Spotlight Series: Gariné Torossian)." Gariné Torossian, Armenian-Canadian filmmaker and visual artist and Marie-Aude Baronian, Associate Professor in visual culture and film at the University of Amsterdam. Video
September 9, 2020. Webinar | "From the Alexander Romance to the Base of the City of Brass: Movements of Medieval Armenian Poetry." Alex MacFarlane, 2020-21 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
2019-20
May 18, 2020. Armenian Studies Cyber Community Chats | "Linguistic Analysis of U.S. Political Speeches on Armenian Genocide." Sona Hakobyan, Weiser Professional Development Fellow, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, U-M, and Vahe Sahakyan, Researcher and Senior Information Resources Specialist, Armenian Research Center, U-M-Dearborn. Video
May 13, 2020. Armenian Studies Cyber Community Chats | "Interview with our Recent Graduate: Highlights, Challenges, and Future Plans." Arakel Minassian, MA in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2020 and Sosi Lepejian, PhD student, Department of Sociology. Video
April 29, 2020. Armenian Studies Cyber Community Chats | "Curbing Corruption in Armenia: Will the Trend Continue?" Aram Simonyan, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Ross School of Business, U-M and Michael Pifer, Department of Middle East Studies, U-M. Video
April 16, 2020. Armenian Studies Cyber Community Chats | "Reflections and Highlights from our Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellows." Karen Jallatyan and Anoush Tamar Suni, 2019-20 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellows. Video
January 15, 2020. Lecture | "Overwhelming Absurdity: Vahé Oshagan’s Discourse of Diasporic Culture." Karen Jallatyan, 2019-20 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
January 14, 2020. Film Screening and Artist Talk | "Post-disciplinary Inscriptions of Armenian Diaspora: 'Vahé Oshagan: Between Acts' (2016)." Hrayr Eulmessekian, Artist, Filmmaker and Taline Voskeritchian, Writer, Translator and Faculty Member at Boston University. Video
November 20, 2019. Lecture | "Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds." Houri Berberian, Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies; Director, Armenian Studies Program, University of California, Irvine. Video
October 9, 2019. Lecture | "Palimpsests of Ruins: Between Armenian and Kurdish Histories in Anatolia." Anoush Tamar Suni, 2019-20 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
September 19, 2019. Roundtable | "Pluricentric Armenian in a Diasporic Context: Reflections on Second Dialect Acquisition." Roundtable Participants: Shushan Karapetian, Deputy Director of the Institute of Armenian Studies, University of Southern California; Tamar Boyadjian, Associate Professor of Medieval Literature, Michigan State University; and Vahe Sahakyan, Research Scholar, Senior Information Resources Specialist, U-M - Dearborn. Video
September 13-14, 2019. Conference | "Generations and Legacies: Louise Manoogian Simone's Vision for Armenian Studies."
Friday, September 13
A Reflection on Four Decades of Armenian Studies at the University of Michigan Video
Saturday, September 14
Narrating Matrimony: Marriage, Kinship, and Empire Video
Language and Nightingales: The Politics and Poetics of Armenian Linguistics and Literary Cultures Video
Perceptions and Encounters: Tracing the History of Armenians and Kurds in Turkey Video
Signs, Objects, and Gifts: Introducing the Concept of Materiality to Armenian Studies Video
Future Flashes Video
2018-19
March 20, 2019. Book Tour | "Armenian Legionnaires: Sacrifice and Betrayal in World War I." Susan Paul Pattie, Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University College London. Video
March 14, 2019. Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | "Views of the Ottoman Empire: Discovering the Visual Record in Motion." Jay Weissberg, Director of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival and film critic for Variety. Video
January 23, 2019. Lecture | "Bridging Memories in a Contested Geography – Eastern Turkey between Western Armenia and Northern Kurdistan." David Leupold, 2018-19 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
November 28, 2018. Lecture | "The Armenian Cause, Statehood, and Democracy: Reflections on Levon Ter-Petrossian’s Writings." Arman Grigoryan, Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Lehigh University. Video
September 12, 2018. Lecture | "The Emergence and Transformation of the Armenian Land Question." Mehmet Polatel, 2018-19 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
2017-18
March 22, 2018. Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | "International Justice for Atrocity Crimes – Worth the Cost?" Nicholas Koumjian, International Criminal Lawyer. Video
January 17, 2018. Lecture | "Christology and Culture: Armenian Theological and Historical Sources as Social Theory." Christopher Sheklian, 2017-18 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
October 11, 2017. Roundtable | "Scholars Under Fire: The Turkish State, Nationalists, and the Repression Against Study of the Armenian Genocide... 102 Years After the Events." Fatma Müge Göçek, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, U-M and Ronald Grigor Suny, William H Sewell, Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History, U-M. Video
September 20, 2017. Lecture | "Armenian Riddles: Learning How to Read with Medieval Poetry." Michael Pifer, Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Studies, U-M. Video
2016-17
January 18, 2017. Lecture | "Immigrants into ‘Ethnic’— Americans: Negotiating Race, Language, Religion and Belongings." Vahe Sahakyan, Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Studies, U-M. Video
December 14, 2016. Lecture | "Men of the New Order: Armenian Provincial Notables in the Age of Ottoman Reforms." Yaşar Tolga Cora, 2016-17 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
November 16, 2016. Lecture | "'It Seems to Belong to Dreamland Rather than Reality': HFB Lynch and the Making of 'Armenia.'" David Low, 2016-17 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
September 13, 2016. Lecture | "'Grasping the Constellations': On the (Im)possibility of Writing Armenian History." Hakem Al-Rustom, Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History. Video coming soon.
2015-16
March 23, 2016. Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | "Moving Armenian Performing Arts from the Archives to the International Scene." Gerald Papasian, Manoogian Visiting Fellow and Artist in Residence. Video
March 16, 2016. Lecture | "Talking Popcorn and Accent Elimination: The Work of Nina Katchadourian." Nina Katchadourian, Artist; Associate Professor, New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Video
December 2, 2015. Lecture | "Local Patriotisms and Diasporic Translocality: Compatriotic Societies in Modern Armenian Diaspora." Vahe Sahakyan, 2015-16 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
November 18, 2015. Lecture | “Movements of People, Money and Cultures: Migration and its Effects on the Post-Soviet Transition Processes in the South Caucasus.” Alina Poghosyan, 2015-16 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
September 18, 2015. Azad and Margaret Hogikyan Armenian Studies Collection Opening and Lecture | A World in a Collection of Books. Video
September 14, 2015. Lecture | "Bearing Witness Through Art." Aline Ohanesian, writer, author of a novel Orhan’s Inheritance. Video
2014-15
April 17-18, 2015. Sixth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop | “Challenging Entrenched Categories: Re-Exploring Approaches to Armenian Literature.” Organized by Tamar Boyadjian, Assistant Professor of English and Medieval Literature, Michigan State University.
Panel 1 | Panel 2 | Panel 3
March 13, 2015. Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | “Problems and Challenges of Armenian Genocide Research.” Taner Akcam, Kaloosdian/Mugar Professor of History, Clark University. Video
January 14, 2015. CREES Noon Lecture | “Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009.” Fatma Müge Göçek, professor of sociology and women’s studies, U-M. Video
November 19, 2014. Lecture | “The Legacy of Time, The Time of Bequest: Armenian Afterlives in a Kurdish Diyarbakir.” Serap Ruken Sengul, Manoogian Simone Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
November 3, 2014. Lecture | “The Smyrna Catastrophe, 1922.” Richard G. Hovannisian, professor emeritus of history, University of California, Los Angeles. Video
October 15, 2014. Lecture | “The Ever-Wandering Stranger: Community Formation and Cosmopolitan Poetics in Middle Armenian Literature.” Michael Pifer, Manoogian Simone Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
September 17, 2014. Lecture | “An Armenian American Artist— Back to the Front.” Eric Bogosian, Manoogian Simone Foundation Fellow; and Artist in Residence, Institute for Humanities, U-M. Video
2013-14
April 9, 2014. Lecture | “Mass Violence from the Balkans to Anatolia into the Caucasus, 1912-23.” Ugur Ümit Üngör, Assistant Professor of History, Utrecht University. Video
March 12, 2014. Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | “Missing Images: Textures of Memory in Diaspora.” Marie Baronian, Manoogian Visiting Fellow, U-M. Video
February 12, 2014. Lecture | “Reconstructing the Nation and Debating Armenian-Turkish Relations in the Aftermath of WWI.” Vahé Tachjian, Chief editor, Houshamadyan Project. Video
January 15, 2014. Lecture | “Drawing Borders, or Creating Conflicts in the Caucasus?” Arsene Saparov, Lecturer, Department of History, U-M. Video
December 18, 2013. Lecture | “Between Religious and Secular: Impact of the 1908 Revolution on Religious Politics in the Ottoman Empire.” Bedross Der Matossian, Assistant Professor of History, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Video
November 20, 2013. Lecture | “Physical Expressions of Winning Hearts and Minds: Body Politics of the American Missionaries and Armenians of ‘Asiatic Turkey’.” Nazan Maksudyan, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Istanbul Kemerburgaz University. Video
October 9, 2013. Lecture | “Łewond’s Arab Incursions into Armenia and the Historiography of Arab Armīniya (8–9th Century).” Alison Vacca, 2013-14 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
September 11, 2013. Lecture | “Genealogical, Religious, and Legal Conversions: Claiming Armenianness in Turkey.” Ceren Özgül, 2013-14 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
2012-13
March 13, 2013. Dr. Berj. H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | “Finding Nemesis.” Eric Bogosian, playwright, novelist and actor. Video
February 20, 2013. Lecture | “Women, War, and Social Change in Armenia during the Mongol Domination.” Zara Pogossian, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History, John Cabot University. Video
January 16, 2013. Lecture | “‘Protecting the Innocent’: Humanitarian Child Transfer in the Aftermath of the Adana Massacres (1909).” Melanie Tanielian, Assistant Professor, Department of History, U-M. Video
December 12, 2012. Lecture | “Re-reading the Crusades: Armenian Sources.” Tamar Boyadjian, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles. Audio | Video
November 7, 2012. Lecture | “Modernity and Genocide: The Armenian, Rwandan, and the Darfuran Cases.” Bedross Der Matossian, Assistant Professor of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Audio | Video
October 10, 2012. Lecture | “The Language of One, The Script of the Other: Early Armeno-Turkish Novels and Ottoman/Turkish Literary Historiography.” Murat Cankara, 2012-13 Manoogian Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Audio | Video
September 19, 2012. Lecture | "A Predicament Beyond Rights: Becoming a Residual Armenian in Turkish Anatolia." Hakem Al-Rustom, 2012-13 Manoogian Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Audio | Video (35 min excerpt of the lecture)
2011-12
March 27, 2012. Lecture | “Why Autonomy? The Making of Nagorno-Karabakh 1918-1925.” Arseni Saparov, 2011-12 Manoogian Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
March 19, 2012. Dr. Berj. H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | “Ararat-Ten Years After.” Atom Egoyan, writer, international filmmaker, director. Video
March 13, 2012. Lecture | “Charents and Revolution.” Azat Yeghiazaryan, Professor. (Yerevan). Video
February 14, 2012. Lecture | “Gregory of Narek and the Narekian Fathers: The Mystery of Love from the Commentary of Song of Songs to the Book of Lamentations.” Levon Petrosyan, 2011-12 Manoogian Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
January 31, 2012. Lecture | “Azerbaijan: 20 Years of Independence.” Hikmet Hadjy-Zadeh, Reagan Fascell Democracy fellow, former vice-premier of Azerbaijan and director of FAR Center for Political Research. Video
December 6, 2011. Lecture | “The New Turkey and the Issue of Genocide: Armenians in a Progressive Imagination." Ronald Suny, Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History, Department of History, U-M. Video
November 22, 2011. Lecture | "From Historian to Accidental Diplomat: The Writing of History Before & After Participating in its Making." Gerard Libaridian, Alex Manoogian Visiting Professor of Modern Armenian History, Department of History, U-M. Video
October 25, 2011. Lecture | "The British Imperial Ethos: Britain & Transcaucasia, 1917-1920." Artin Arslanian, Professor of History, Marist College. Video
October 15, 2011. Symposium | “Armenia in World History, the World in Armenian History.” Video
October 14, 2011. Armenian Films and Lecture | "A View of Armenian Cinema." Artsvi Bakhchinyan, 2011-12 Manoogian Simone Foundation Visiting Scholar. Video
October 14, 2011. Event | “Armenian Studies & the Libraries of the University of Michigan.” Video
October 13, 2011. 30th Anniversary Reception | 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History and the formal creation of the Armenian Studies Program. Video
2010-11
March 21, 2011. Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | "Looking Beyond the 'Reset': U.S.- Russian Relations and Their Implications for the Caucasus." Fiona Hill, Senior Fellow & Director, Center on the US & Europe, The Brookings Institution. Co-sponsor: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Video (part 1), Video (part 2)
March 14, 2011. Lecture | "The Contemporary Historical Novel in Armenia." Vahram Danielyan, 2010-11 Manoogian Simone Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
February 7, 2011. Lecture | "Revolutionaries after the Revolution: Politics under the Ottoman Constitution." Dikran Kaligian, Historian and managing editor of Armenian Review. Video
January 24, 2011. Lecture | "German Penetration into the Ottoman Empire through Baghdad Railway." Eyyep Murat Özyüksel, 2010-11 Manoogian Simone Foundation Visiting Scholar, U-M. Video
January 10, 2011. Lecture | "The Caucasus: Old Conflict and New Geopolitical Design." Sergey Markedonov, Visiting Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Russia and Eurasia Program. Video
December 6, 2010. Lecture | "And Then a Hero Comes Along: Istanbulite Armenian Re-fashioning Turkishness, 1918-1923." Lerna Ekmekcioglu, 2010-11 Alex and Marie Manoogian Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow. Video
November 15, 2010. Lecture | "Cultivating Nationhood in Imperial Russia: The Periodical Press and the Formation of a Modern Armenian Identity." Lisa Khachaturian, author. Video
November 1, 2010. Lecture | "A Mixed-Methods Study of Technology Adoption in the Republic of Armenia: Why Mobile Phones but Not Personal Computers and Internet?" Katy Pearce, Doctoral candidate in Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara. Video
October 11, 2010. Lecture | "Arshile Gorky: Identity, Genocide, and the Making of Modern Armenia." Kim Theriault, Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, Dominican University. Video
September 27, 2010. Lecture | "Deep Mountain: Why Don't Turks Feel Anything?" Ece Temelkuran, journalist and author. Video
2009-10
March 22, 2010. Lecture | "Armenians in Thirteenth-century Erzincan: a Window into Inter-faith Interaction in Late Medieval Anatolia". Rachel Goshgarian, Director of the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center. Video
March 19, 2010. Colloquium | "Third Party Intervention in Armenian History and Turkish / Armenian Relations." Colloquium presenters include Arman Grigoryan, Gerard Libaridian, Andranik Migranyan, Michael Reynolds, and Ronald Suny. Video
February 10, 2010. Lecture | "'Foreign Confessions in Foreign Contexts: Religion Across the Border of the Russian Empire." Paul Werth, Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada. Sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies. Video
January 25, 2010. Lecture | "Perspectives on the Origin of Armenian Language and Culture." Hrach Martirosyan, 2009-10 Manoogian Simone Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
January 11, 2010. Lecture | "War, Fears of Minorities, and Genocide." Arman Grigoryan, Manoogian Simone Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
December 7, 2009. Roundtable | "Studying the Armenian Diaspora." Roundtable discussion with Susan Pattie, Lucila Tossounian, Sarah Mekdjian, and others. Video
November 23, 2009. Lecture | "A Critical Reading of the Elite/Mass Model to Understand the Structure of the Armenian Diaspora." Sarah Mekdjian, 2009-10 Manoogian Simone Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M. Video
November 18, 2009. Lecture | "Food, Culture, and Identity: An Illustrated Talk about Armenian Food Traditions." Susan Pattie, 2009-10 Manoogian Simone Foundation Visiting Scholar, U-M. Video
November 9, 2009. Lecture | "The Armenians in Argentina." Lucila Tossounian, 2009-10 Manoogian Simone Foundation Predoctoral Visiting Researcher, U-M. Video
October 26, 2009. Lecture | "Imagining Homelands: Poetry and Performance Among Cypriot Armenians." Susan Pattie, 2009-10 Manoogian Simone Foundation Visiting Scholar, U-M. Video
October 23, 2009. Panel Discussion | "Historic Achievement or Historic Blunder? The Armenia-Turkey Protocols." Video
October 12, 2009. Dr. Berj. H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | "The Phantom of Unity: The Failure of Regional Cooperation in the Caucasus." Thomas de Waal, journalist and author. Video
