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Carina Tokatian Staff Writer The French philosopher Roland Barthes once wrote, “When we define the photograph as motionless images, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not emerge, do not leave: they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.” Ironically, as Dr. Zeynep Devrim Gürsel highlights, the Ottoman Empire’s ...

Sara Beberian Staff Writer Want to feel more connected to your local Armenian community? The podcast “All Things Armenian” is the place for you! Airing from 2:00-3:00PM every Sunday on Multicultural 1600AM and hosted by Professor Barlow Der Mugrdechian from the Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State, listeners enjoy hearing interviews covering a variety of topics including; music, art, Fresno ...

            Society for Armenian Studies President Dr. Bedross Der Matossian conducted the SAS Annual Meeting. Staff Report On January 16, 2021, the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) held its 46th Annual Membership Meeting on Zoom. More than forty members, including the Executive Council, were present at the meeting, which was open to all members of ...

Dustin Vartanian Staff Writer Dr. Ohannes Kılıçdağı, the 17th Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies at Fresno State taught a new course called “Awakening, Death, and Survival: History of the Ottoman Armenians in Modern Times,” during the Fall 2020 semester. This course focused on the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire prior and during the Armenian Genocide. Each Kazan Visiting Professor ...

Christine Pambukyan Staff Writer “Learning Armenian can open up a whole new world for students. I enjoy the process of interacting with students in teaching and in sharing their success as they learn the language,” said Professor Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Berberian Coordinator of the Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State. Every Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30PM to 4:45PM, students in ...

Dustin Vartanian Staff Writer “It is not just a job. These are my people. These are my family. These are my neighbors. These are my friends. These are the valley residents that come to Fresno State and whom I appreciate deeply.” These are the words of San Joaquin Valley native Dr. Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval, on becoming Fresno State’s new Interim President. ...

Staff Report Armenian Studies Program Director Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian announced the publication of Dr. James R. Russell’s Misak Medzarents: The Complete Lyric Poems, Volume 12 in the Armenian Series of The Press at California State University, Fresno. Misak Medzarents, 1886-1908, was the second great lyric poet of the Western Armenian language after Bedros Tourian. During his tragically short life ...

Special to Hye Sharzhoom NAASR   The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prizes for Excellence in Armenian Studies: Prof. Houri Berberian for the monograph Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds (University of California Press) and Dr. ...

Sosse Baloian Staff Writer In a 2005 article written by Agos newspaper editor Hrant Dink, a French-Armenian woman passed away while visiting her childhood village in Turkey. When the question arose of where her burial ought to take place, a villager responded, “Let her be buried here… the water has found its crack.” This story embodies the Armenian longing for ...

Christine Pambukyan Staff Writer Imagine this. Your father was drafted for a war months ago and you are now living in your family home with your grandparents, your siblings, and your mother. Holidays come and go, yet there is no sign of your father. Soon, your grandfather is arrested, and your mother asks you and your siblings to no longer ...