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Center for Armenian Studies
Recent News
Call for Papers: 14th Annual International Graduate Student Workshop in Armenian Studies: “The Archive in Theory and Practice in Armenian Studies”
Abstracts due: November 15, 2024; Workshop dates: Friday, April 4 & Saturday, April 5, 2025
Call for Applications: Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellowships in Armenian Studies & History
Apply by January 15, 2025
The University of Michigan’s Center for Armenian Studies promotes the study of the history, language, and culture of Armenia and Armenians and helps prepare a new generation of scholars in the field. Our mission is to provide programmatic support for a forward-thinking curriculum taught by its affiliated faculty, visiting fellows/scholars, and our two endowed chairs in Armenian Studies. Through its work in the United States and abroad, CAS strives to contribute to the scholarly analysis and understanding of the challenges the Armenian people have faced across the globe. More
Events
Nov
05
Postdoctoral Fellow Lecture. “They Vowed Never to Return:” Armenian Transatlantic Mobility and Abandoned Ottomans
Hazal Özdemir, 2024-24 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow in Armenian Studies
4:00 PM
555
Weiser Hall
Nov
07
Making “MENA”: Histories of the “Middle East,” Race, and the US Census
Thomas Simsarian Dolan, Lead Historian, Armenian General Benevolent Union
4:00 PM
555
Weiser Hall
Nov
20
CREES Noon Lecture. Political Anxieties in the Caucasus: the Georgian National Narrative Between War and Peace
Nutsa Batiashvili, professor of anthropology; Director of the Memory and Anxiety Research Laboratory, Free University of Tbilisi
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Nov
21
Needs of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Context of Contemporary Political Processes and Social Modernization Trends
Arthur Atanessian, Yerevan State University, Armenia
4:00 PM
555
Weiser Hall