Staff Report ZHANNA BAGDASAROV MAJOR: PSYCHOLOGY MINOR: ARMENIAN STUDIES How have the Armenian Studies classes you’ve taken influenced you? Taking Armenian Studies courses throughout my college career has definitely been a great addition to my curriculum. I’ve acquired so much knowledge pertaining to general Armenian issues and the history of my people, which I was not aware of before these ...

McGill-Queen’s University Press “Like Our Mountains: A History of Armenians in Canada” by Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill A sweeping social history of the Armenian-Canadian experience that links the Old World with the New against a far-flung diaspora. McGill-Queen’s Studies in Ethnic History April 2005 The Armenian Genocide that killed 1.5 million people almost 100 years ago is only now becoming part of ...

Staff Report Barlow Der Mugrdechian of the Armenian Studies Program had a busy speaking schedule during the month of April. Barlow Der Mugrdechian of the Armenian Studies Program, right, with participants in the Genocide Awareness Week panel at UC Davis, April 19. On April 3, he presented a paper, “Across the Chasm: From Catastrophe to Creativity” as part of the ...

Staff Report At the invitation of Foreign Minister of Armenia, Vartan Oskanian, Prof. Dickran Kouymjian participated in the special two-day conference on the 90th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide held in Erevan 20-21 April. Major Genocide and Holocaust scholars from around the world came together to discuss both the consequences of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and its continued denial ...

Sarah Soghomonian Staff Writer Award winning author David Kherdian and his wife Nonny Hogrogian, an award-winning illustrator, spoke about their latest work on May 2, on the campus of Fresno State. The couple, who reside in Spencertown, N.Y., read from and talked about their newest books, The Song of the Stork and Other Early and Ancient Armenian Songs, a book ...

Barlow Der Mugrdechian Advisor Many people have studied the history of the Armenian Genocide, but few have sought to understand more deeply the trauma suffered by survivors. Dr. James Reid, a Tsakopoulos Research Fellow from Sacramento, has spent the last twenty years studying the psychological consequences traceable in the narratives written by survivors of the Armenian genocide. These survivors suffered ...

Zhanna Bagdasarov Staff Writer On the evening of March 11 the life and work of William Saroyan was honored by those who knew him and those who valued his work. Students and community members gathered inside the Industrial Technology Building, Room 101, at 7 o’clock in the evening to listen to a panel of speakers present different aspects of Saroyan’s ...

Nyrie Karkazian Staff Writer A crowd of people stood solemnly in the Free Speech Area at Fresno State, April 22, in honor of the 2 million people who died in the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Members of the Armenian Students Organization held a large sign in the background that read “Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923, 2 million massacred,” as the crowd waited ...

Staff Report Dr. Dickran Kouymjian and the Armenian Studies Program would like to thank the donors, authors, and publishers for the following books, periodicals, videos, and archival gifts either offered personally or to the Program. Armenica.Org. Sweden, for the Armenian Genocide Posters. Walter Karabian, Los Angeles, for the CD of the luncheon celebrating his father-in-law, Arshag Dickranian’s 100th birthday, and ...

Staff Report The Armenian Studies Program awarded scholarships and research grants from seven different endowment or scholarship funds and research grants for a total of $46,800. These scholarships encourage students to purse minors in Armenian Studies and to enroll in the various course offerings. We ask our student and our supporters to tell their friends and relatives about the Armenian ...