Armenia

The Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, are pleased to announce CULTURAL HERITAGE ACROSS THE CHRISTIAN EAST, a symposium exploring the challenges of preserving the cultural heritage of the Christian East.

Friday, March 31, 2017, 9:30 am–5:00 pm
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

The Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, are pleased to announce CULTURAL HERITAGE ACROSS THE CHRISTIAN EAST, a symposium exploring the challenges of preserving the cultural heritage of the Christian East.

Friday, March 31, 2017, 9:30 am–5:00 pm
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Caucasus Research Resource Center-Armenia is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the conference "Armenia-Turkey: paving ways for dialogue and reconciliation". The conference will take place on 18-19 May, 2017 in Yerevan, Armenia.

The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) is organizing teleconferenced networking call sessions for scholars of the South Caucasus from around the world. These networking sessions are an informal way for scholars in all stages of their careers to connect and have a chance to discuss issues relevant to their research. We have organized sessions devoted to broad topics. A moderator will lead each discussion.

"Linguistics in the Republic of Georgia and Beyond" with Alice Harris
January 19, 2017 at 11:30am - 12:30pm EST (New York time)

The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) announces its funding opportunities for 2016-17.

ARISC Graduate/Postdoctoral Fellowships

ARISC Collaborative Heritage Management in Armenia Grant - Deadline extended

I'm writing to alert you to two new pieces in Anthropology News written by Soyuz scholars.  Tamar Shirinian (Duke University) has a timely contribution on protests that surrounded Armenia's recent constitutional referendum.  "Saying 'No!': Negation as Future Making" is available online for the next six weeks, and will be archived in AnthroSource thereafter.  The next print edition of Anthropology N

New curricular materials for higher education on a variety of topics about the South Caucasus region are available for free at http://arisc.org/?page_id=2792.
 
Modules are available to be used as scholarly vignettes on Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia to enhance instruction and to give students an opportunity to learn more about a fascinating yet often ignored region of the world. Topics covered include architecture, economics, history, migration, and politics, among others.
 

Two reviews of potential interest:

Next up is Stanley G. Payne and Jesús Palacios Tapias’s controversialFranco: A Personal and Political Biography. Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez reviews a book which presents the dictator in a better light than his critics have typically done (no. 1810).