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Staff Report Patricia Peterson Hansen of Sacramento, California, has established a new Endowment Fund of $50,000 at Fresno State in the name of her late sister Helen Zevart Peterson. The Helen Zevart Peterson Fund will provide funding for programming musical performances and speakers in the Armenian Studies Program. Helen Zevart Peterson was born to Simon and Haiganoosh Peterson in Hanford, ...

Natalie Agazarian Staff Writer Artak Beglaryan, State Min-ister of Artsakh, has conducted a significant amount of research and dedicated much of his time serving the people of Artsakh. Mr. Beglaryan, who was in Fresno to speak at the annual meeting and banquet of the Armenian Missionary Association of America, held a conversation with Fresno State students on Friday, October 22, ...

Dustin Vartanian Staff Writer “The continued denial of the Armenian Genocide equals a continuation of the Genocide,” stated Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian. Evidence of the Armenian Genocide is plentiful: the population of Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire decreased by seventy-five percent after World War I. Thousands of Armenian churches existed throughout the Ottoman Empire, while only a handful remain ...

Michael Mazman Staff Writer On Friday, September 17, 2021, the Armenian Studies Program hosted Dr. Suren Manukyan, Fresno State’s 18th Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies, to deliver a lecture titled “Architects of the Armenian Genocide: The Top-Level Perpetrators.” This was the first of a three-part lecture series by Dr. Manukyan on the theme of “Perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide.” ...

  Arshak Abelyan Staff Writer One of the biggest challenges for the future of Armenia is the uncertainty of the leadership in the country following the Artsakh war in 2020. In the case of the Armenian political sphere, the solution can be simply labeled as unique. Dr. Nerses Kopalyan, an assistant professor-in-residence of Political Science at the University of Nevada, ...

Sosse Baloian Staff Writer “One cannot change the future without understanding the past,” stated Tatiana Samouie, a Biology major and expected 2022 Fresno State graduate. As a great grandchild of an Armenian Genocide survivor, Samouie believes that “learning about multiple genocides can provide an individual with an acute lens when looking at global issues.” Samouie is one of several students ...

Christine Pambukyan Staff Writer “Bedros Keljik’s Armenian American Sketches brings to life one of the early chapters of the storied history of the Armenian-American community, whose presence on this continent long precedes the events of 1915 and even the Hamidian massacres of the nineteenth century,” said Jessie Arlen, interim director of the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center. On April ...

Michael Mazman Staff Writer Dr. Ara Sanjian, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, delivered a presentation on Thursday, May 6, 2021, entitled “The Armenian Church in Nagorno-Karabagh (Artsakh) in Modern Times.” The primary focus of his lecture was to discuss the structures and activities of the Armenian Apostolic church ...

Christine Pambukyan Staff Writer “It is a fresh and healthy approach to modern Armenian and historical Armenian studies that is much more inclusive of the broader context in which Armenian history exists,” said Ara Sarafian, one of three co-editors of The Committee of Union and Progress: Founders, Ideology and Structure. A panel discussion was held on Saturday, September 25, to ...

Staff Report Dr. Suren Manukyan has been named as the 18th Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies at Fresno State for the Fall 2021 semester. Dr. Manukyan is the Head of the UNESCO Chair on Prevention of Genocide and Other Atrocity Crimes at Yerevan State University and Head of the Department of Comparative Genocide Studies at the ...