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Staff Report A conference, entitled “Legacy of the Armenian Genocide 100 years later” was held at the Institute for Global Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, March 5-7, 2015. The conference was organized by the National Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD) of the Netherlands, the Institute for Armenian Studies at the University of South California and the Centennial ...

Staff Report Armenian Studies Program professors Barlow Der Mugrdechian and Sergio La Porta participated in Scottsdale Community College’s (SCC) third annual “Genocide Awareness Week,” April 13-18, 2015. The “Genocide Awareness Week” brings academic experts, genocide survivors, and advocates for peace together for a week of sharing and analyzing the circumstances that led to these tragic periods. Professor Der Mugrdechian and ...

Aramayis Orkusyan Staff Writer Members of the Fresno State Armenian Students Organization (ASO) continuously demonstrate their fierce love of Armenian culture and undying passion for bringing justice to the victims and survivors of the Armenian Genocide. On no occasion is this more evident than during the week of April 24. As has become long-standing tradition, members of the ASO organize ...

Marine Vardanyan Editor “Fresno to me is the epitome of the Armenian Diaspora experience in North America,” said director and screenwriter Eric Nazarian during his visit to Fresno State for a discussion and film screening with the campus CineCulture Film Series, co-sponsored by the Armenian Studies Program. These words resonate even more strongly this year as the Fresno Armenian Community ...

Staff Report Megi Hakobjanyan Dean’s Medalist College of Social Sciences       Joseph Bohigian Dean’s Medalist College of Arts and Humanities       Marine Vardanyan Dean’s Medalist College of Health and Human Services

Benefactors John Ohanian Sponsors Arakel & Talin Arisian Nerces Leon Dermenjian Supporters Mrs. Beverly Achki Dr. Joseph M. Alexanian Hratch & Marika Karakachian Edward & Vergine Misserlian In memory of Clifford Melikian Art & Marlene Dhallin

Thank You Donors Edward Alexander, Bethesda, MD George & Mary Atashkarian, Moraga Richard G. Barberian, PD, Burlingame in memory of Penny Markarian Barberian Arsinoe Baron, La Mesa Karl DeKlotz, Fresno in honor of Robert DeKlotz, M.D. Sahag & Mary Egoian, Fresno Betty Ann Hagopian, Fresno Mary Hokokian, Fresno Haig & Marcia Jamgotchian, Anaheim Diane and Larry Karabian, Shaver Lake Lilian ...

Staff Report Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Prof. Sergio La Porta, 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. AGBU Hye Geen, Pasadena, California, for a new book AGBU Hye Geen (Los Angeles, 2014) 322pp., in Armenian and English. ...

Staff Report Armenian Studies Program Coordinator Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian announced that the Thomas A. Kooyumjian Family Foundation has made a generous donation of $40,000 to the Armenian Studies Program and the Center for Armenian Studies. The gift will be earmarked for several purposes, including Fresno State student scholarships, support for the Armenian Genocide Monument on the Fresno State campus, ...

Lauren Chardukian Staff Writer 2015-one hundred years since the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Filmmaking began taking roots in society about that same time and since the rise in popularity of film, it has become one of the greatest media for expressing emotions and feelings, in ways that books and traditional artwork are unable to do. Dr. Myrna Douzjian, the Kazan Visiting ...