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Staff Report Friday, April 16 • 7:30 PM Dr. Bedross Der Matossian, MIT “The Taboo within the Taboo: The Fate of the ‘Armenian Capital’ in the End of the Ottoman Empire” One of the marginalized topics in the historiography of the Ottoman Empire in general and that of the Armenian Genocide in particular is the fate of the “Armenian economy” ...

Hazel Antaramian-Hofman Staff Writer The Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State, in collaboration with the Fresno Arts Council, the City of Fresno, and the Armenian Museum, will host in the month of May a long awaited exhibition of Armenian-American artist, Varaz Samuelian. The work will be displayed on the second floor of City Hall. A reception and opening of the ...

Tamar Karkazian Staff Writer Armenian identity and the Genocide—we don’t expect to hear topics like this until April, when we, as a community, come together to commemorate the Armenian Genocide. However, this was the topic of discussion on Wednesday evening, February 17. Dr. Abraham Terian, the eighth Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies at Fresno State gave ...

Tamar Karkazian Staff Writer Think back to the fall of 2000, around election time. Try to remember the large pieces of cardboard placed in lawns and street corners, in bright reds and deep blues. Do any names stick out from those elections? One should. Debra Kazanjian. She ran and was elected as a Judge of the Superior Court, County of ...

Evelyn Demirchian Staff Writer On Thursday, February 11, Armenian community members gathered at Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church to honor Vartanantz, in commemoration of the Battle of Avarayr on June 2, 451. On that day, the Christian Armenians of the Sassanid Persian Empire took arms against their Persian aggressors and the Armenian leader General Vartan Mamigonian became a symbol of ...

Armen Melidonian Staff Writer The Armenian Studies Program offered a course, Armenian Studies 120T-Armenia Today, which covered the history and development of the modern Republic of Armenia, on Friday, February 19 and Saturday, February 20. The course also covered Armenia in the early twentieth century and in the period of the Soviet Union. Events leading to Armenia’s independence nearly two ...

Armen Melidonian Staff Writer The Armenian Students Organization (ASO) began the Spring semester with several changes and plans for an extensive schedule of events. ASO held its first meeting on Wednesday, January 27, holding an election for an opening in the executive. With the graduation of last semester’s President Hagop Ohanessian, the position became vacant and Faten Myaznih-Kassabian, who previously ...

Staff Report 385,488. Did you know that was the official count of Armenians in America according to the 2000 United States census? Some recent estimates have put the number of Armenians in the United States at over 1,000,000, but the number that will count is that reported by the 2010 United States census. Census partnership specialist Anahit Tovmasyan was in ...

Staff report The Armenian Studies Program hosted Ms. Naira Mnatsakanyan, Deputy Head of the International Relations Office of Yerevan State University (YSU), for a weeklong study trip, January 25-29. ASP Coordinator Barlow Der Mugrdechian commented that visits to the United States by YSU faculty and staff is important in maintaining a relationship between the two universities. Mnatsakanyan visited Fresno State ...

Evelyn Demirchian Staff Writer On February 24, the Armenian Studies Program welcomed young graduate student and scholar Konrad Siekierski to Fresno State, to give a power-point presentation on the topic of “Folk Religiosity in Contemporary Armenia.” Sikierski graduated with an M.A. in Ethnology from the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Warsaw, Poland. He has been ...