Society for Armenian Studies Podcast

Prof.  Sergio La Porta  (California State University, Fresno) Reflections on Armenian Studies II Interviewed by Prof.  Barlow Der Mugrdechian (California State University, Fresno) The aim of the Reflections on Armenian Studies series is twofold: to interview senior figures about their experience in and contribution to the field, and create a digital archive for future generations in the field. [Ju...

Prof.  Richard G. Hovannisian , Reflections on Armenian Studies Interviewed by Prof.  Barlow Der Mugrdechian (California State University, Fresno) The aim of the Reflections on Armenian Studies series is twofold: to interview senior figures about their experience in and contribution to the field, and create a digital archive for future generations in the field. [May 12, 2020]

Prof.  Carolyn J. Dean ,  The Moral Witness: Trials and Testimony after Genocide  (Cornell University Press, 2019) Interviewed by  Asya Darbinyan  (Stockton University) [March 26, 2020]

Dr.  Dzovinar Derderian , Nation, Media, and Empire: Voices from Ottoman Van Interviewed by  Nora Lessersohn  (University College London) [February 24, 2020]

Prof.  Tsolin Nalbantian ,  Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon their Own  (Edinburgh University Press, 2019)  Interviewed by  Varak Ketsemanian (Ph. D. Student, Princeton University) [December 3, 2019]    

Dr.  Rubina Peroomian , My Father, A Man of Courage and Perseverance, A Survivor of Stalin’s Gulag (Glendale, Calif: Rubina Peroomian Minassian, 2017)  Interviewed by  Vahe Peroomian  (University of Southern California) [October 17, 2019]

Dr.  David Gutman ,  The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885-1915: Sojourners, Smugglers and Dubious Citizens  (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019) Interviewed by  Nora Lessersohn  (University College London) [September 17, 2019]

Dr.  Satenig Batwagan Toufanian ,  Le Piège de L'orgueil Un Projet Républicain en Orient au XVIIIe Siècle  (Paris: Presses de l’inalco, 2018)  Interviewed by  Gérard Malkassian  (Professor of Philosophy, Paris) [September 5, 2019]

Prof.  Houri Berberian ,  Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds  (Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2019) Interviewed by  Varak Ketsemanian (Ph. D. Student, Princeton University) [August 15, 2019]

Dr.  Vahagn Avedian ,   Knowledge and Acknowledgement in the Politics of Memory of the Armenian Genocide (London: Routledge, 2018) Interviewed by Dr. Suren Manukyan  (Yerevan State University and Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute) [July 31, 2019]  

Prof.  Hratch Tchilingirian  (Oxford University),  Ermeni Kilisesi: Kısa Bir Giriş  [The Armenian Church: A Short Introduction] Translated from English by Lora Sarı (Istanbul: Aras Publications, 2019) Interviewed by Ani K. Shahinian (D.Phil. student, Oxford University) [July 11, 2019]

Dr.  Vahé Tachjian  ( Houshamadyan Project )  Daily Life in the Abyss: Genocide Diaries, 1915-1918  (Berghahn Books, NY/London, 2017)  Interviewed by  G.M. Goshgarian  (Translator) [June 27, 2019]

Prof.  Keith David Watenpaugh  (University of California, Davis)  Bread from Stones The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism  (Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2015) Interviewed by  Harout Ek manian  (Lawyer and Journalist) [May 28, 2019]

Profs.  Bedross Der Matossian  (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and  Barlow Der Mugrdechian  (California State University, Fresno)  Western Armenian in the 21st Century: Challenges and New Approaches  (Fresno, CA: The Press at Fresno State, Fall 2018) Jesse Arlen  (Ph. D. Student, UCLA) interviewing contributors  Hagop Kouloujian  (University of California, Los Angeles) and  Shushan Karapetian  (U...

Prof.  Jonathan Conlin  (University of Southampton)  Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World’s Richest Man  (Profile Books; Main edition, 2019) Interviewed by Marc A. Mamigonian (National Association for Armenian Studies and Research [NAASR]) [Released May 9, 2019]

Prof.  Christina Maranci  (Tufts University)  Vigilant Powers: Three Churches of Early Medieval Armenia (Turhout, Brepolis Publishers, 2015) Interviewed by  Alison Vacca  (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) [Released May 2, 2019]

Sato Moughalian  (Musician and Author)  Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian (Stanford, California: Redwood Press, 2019) Interviewed by  Erin Piñon  (Ph. D. Student, Princeton University) [Released April 23, 2019]

Dr.  Vicken Cheterian  (Webster University-Geneva)  Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide (Oxford University Press, 2015) Interviewed by  Varak Ketsemanian  (Ph. D. Student, Princeton University). [Released April 17, 2019]

Prof.  Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh ,  The Missing Pages:  The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice  (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2019) Interviewed by  Erin Piñon  (Ph. D. Student, Princeton University) [Released April 5, 2019]

Dr.  Jennifer M. Dixon ,  Dark Pasts: Changing the State’s Story in Turkey and Japan  (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018) Interviewed by  Marc A. Mamigonian  (National Association for Armenian Studies and Research [NAASR]). [Released March 29, 2019]

Dr.  Boris Adjemian   (Director, Nubarian Library, Paris)  La fanfare du négus les Arméniens en Ethiopie (XIXe – XXe siècles)  (Paris Éd. de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales 2013). Interviewed by  Anna Aleksanyan  (Ph. D. Student, Clark University). [Released March 19, 2019]

Dr. Nora Nercessian (Retired, Harvard University),  The City of Orphans: Relief Workers, Commissars and the “Builders of the New Armenia” Alexandropol/Leninakan 1919-1931  (Hollis Publishing, 2016) Interviewed by  Asya Darbinyan  (Ph. D. Student, Clark University) [Released March 7, 2019]

Prof.  Anna Ohanyan  (Stonehill College)  Russia Abroad: Driving Regional Fracture in Post-Communist Eurasia and Beyond  (Georgetown: Georgetown University Press, 2018) Interviewed by  Richard B. Finnegan  (Stonehill College) [Released February 28, 2019]

Dr.  Sona Haroutyun ian  (Ca’Foscari University of Venice)  Հայ ոց ցեղասպանության արձագանքներն Իտալիայում. 1915  [The Echoes of the Armenian Genocide in Italy. 1915] (Երևան, ԵՊՀ հրատ., 2018). Interviewed (in Armenian) by  Hayk Hambardzumyan  (Yerevan State University and Shoghakat TV, Yerevan) [Released February 2, 2019]

Avedis Hadjian  (Journalist)  Secret Nation: The Hidden Armenians of Turkey  (I.B. Tauris, 2018) Interviewed by  Ani Kasparian  (University of Michigan, Dearborn). [Released February 5, 2019]