Rachel Yepremian-Owens Staff Writer On March 16, Fresno State students, family members, faculty, and administrators gathered at Fort Washington Country Club in Fresno for the Armenian Studies Program 37th Annual Banquet. The Armenian Studies Program Annual Banquet recognizes scholarship recipients, and the Program was pleased to announce that $110,000 in scholarships was awarded to 52 students for the 2024-2025 academic ...

  Staff Report The Armenian Studies Program awarded scholarships to fifty-two students from forty different endowment or scholarship funds for a total of $110,000 for the academic year 2024-2025. In addition to providing needed financial support, the scholarships encourage students to pursue a Minor in Armenian Studies and to enroll in the various course offerings. We ask our students and ...

Staff Report The Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State is pleased to announce the release of its latest publication, Microhistories in Armenian Studies, volume 22 in the Armenian Series of The Press at California State University, Fresno. Based on five probing papers delivered at an international conference organized by Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian of the Armenian Studies Program and Dr. ...

Careen Derkalousdian Staff Writer On Thursday, April 24, 2025, the Armenian Students Organization (ASO) gathered at noon in front of the Armenian Genocide Monument at Fresno State to remember and honor the innocent lives lost during the Genocide. As students and community members gathered and took their seats, local musicians Philip and Andrew Hagopian played somber music on the oud. ...

Staff Report On Sunday, April 27, 2025 the Tekeyan Cultural Association Metro Los Angeles Chapter organized a kinetson (book dedication) at the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church in Burbank, CA. Dr. Dora Sakayan’s book titled Death Marches Past the Front Door: Clara and Fritz Sigrist-Hilty, Swiss Eyewitnesses to the Armenian Dante-Inferno in Turkey (1915-1918) was the subject of the ...

Anahid Valencia Staff Writer The Armenian Studies Program partnered with Cine-Culture, AGBU Arts, and the Armenian General Benevolent Union Greater Fresno Chapter to host “Armenians in Film” on Friday, February 21.“Armenians in Film” consisted of six short films by Armenian directors, including Ophelia Harutunyan and Katia Spivakova, who participated in a discussion after the screening. The films were titled “All ...

Staff Report Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian was a guest speaker at the Phoenix Secondary Academy in Fresno on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. Students at the academy had been studying Armenian culture during the month of January and Prof. Der Mugrdechian was asked to give a presentation on Armenian culture and history. More than forty students and staff of the Academy ...

Natalie Agazarian Editor “This is everyday history…the catastrophic, everyday history that is valuable and needs to be studied,” remarked newly appointed Kazan Visiting Professor, Dr. Talin Suciyan. She gave her first lecture, the first in a three-part series on Armenian family archives, on Friday, January 31, 2025. Dr. Suciyan was born in Istanbul, and after obtaining her Ph.D. in Munich, ...

Lori Agazarian Staff Writer On Monday, February 24, 2025, the Fresno State Armenian Studies Program hosted Dr. Julien Zarifian for a lecture about the history, memory, and politics of the Armenian Genocide. Dr. Zarifian is a professor of U.S. History and U.S. civilization, with an emphasis in politics, at the University of Poitiers in France. He visited West Coast universities, ...

Ani Sargsyan Staff Writer On Friday, February 7, 2025, the Armenian Studies Program welcomed guest speaker Dr. Talar Chahinian for her lecture “Language Politics and Literary Creation in the Armenian Diaspora’s Formative Years.” Dr. Chahinian spoke about her recent book, Stateless: The Politics of Armenian Language in Exile, which focuses on two key moments and locations of Western Armenian literary ...