Dates: September 21-23, 2017 Location: Leiden, The Netherlands
The European Society of the Study of Human Evolution 7th annual meeting to promote the broad field of research which investigates how humans evolved both biologically and culturally.
Date: Saturday, September 23, 2017 Time: 12:00 – 6:00 PM Location: Nathan Hale Inn, 855 Bolton Road, Storrs, CT
This event is free and open to the public.
Join us for traditional food, music, dancing, a rug weaving workshop, a lecture on filmmaking in Armenia, and a show! Note that the evening performance will take place at the Rome Commons Ballroom.
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM 5:30 PM Reception 6:30 PM Lecture 7:15 PM Q&A Discussion facilitated by Professor Stephen Schensul Location: Nathan Hale Inn, 855 Bolton Road, Storrs, CT
This event is free and open to the public.
Speaker: Dr. Berdj Kiladjian, Board of Director for Hand-in-Hand and principal of Longwood Dental Group
Sponsored by UConn’s Norian Armenian Programs, Global Affairs, and School of Social Work. If you are an individual that requires an accommodation to participate, contact global@uconn.edu or 860.486.3152
Dr. Kiladjian will discuss the state of dentistry in Armenia and how the organization Hand in Hand came to be—the purpose, the past and the future. He will provide an introduction of preventive dentistry services that Hand in Hand provides in Armenia and Karabagh, as well as the steps taken to achieve the organization’s goals.
Biography
Dr. Kiladjian is the principal of Longwood Dental Group in Brookline MA USA. Longwood Dental is a multi specialty group practice with a staff of 35, including 14 general dentists and specialists. Dr. Kiladjian is a prosthodontist and maintains his practice within the group, specializing in advanced cosmetic dentistry and dental implant dentistry. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Hand-in-Hand, a non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to the improvement of the health and social welfare of the Artsakh population, focusing on dental care and preventative education in Armenia and Karabakh.
Date: Thursday, February 2nd, 2017 Time: 4:30PM Location: Southern Connecticut State University, Buley Art Gallery, Buley Library, Ground Floor, New Haven, CT
Professor Armen T. Marsoobian will be giving a lecture on his recent work on Ottoman Armenian Photography, conducted during his fellowship in Istanbul.
Date: Saturday, September 17, 2016 Time: 12:00 – 5:00 PM Location: Alumni Center, 2384 Alumni Drive Storrs, CT
This event is free and open to the public.
Join us for traditional food, music, dancing, a rug weaving workshop, a lecture on grape cultivation in Armenia, and a show! Note that the evening performance will take place in the Student Union Theater.
We are no longer taking RSVPs for the 2016 event. Please visit the Fall 2017 event page.
We are no longer taking vendor registrations. All vendors should have been confirmed by Friday, September 3, 2016. The list of confirmed vendors can be found below. If you have any questions please contact zahra.ali@uconn.edu or dorothea.hast@uconn.edu
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 5:30PM Location: School of Social Work, Zachs Community Room, 1798 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford, CT. Get directions. Agenda:
5:30 pm Reception
6:00 pm Lecture
Speaker:
Harut Sassounian, Publisher & Editor, California Courier
“They Shall Not Perish: The Story of the Near East” Exhibit will also be on display in the Zachs Community Room on April 28, 2016. The Exhibit will be moved to UConn Storrs campus after the lecture, and will remain on display in Laurel Hall until September 20, 2016.
Date: Wednesday, March 9th Time: 7:00pm Location: Guilford Free Library
Professor Armen Marsoobian is giving an illustrated talk about his recent book, Fragments of a Lost Homeland: Remembering Armenia. Armen T. Marsoobian is a professor of philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University and chairperson of the Philosophy Department.
You should attend if you like photography and want to hear about what life was like for Armenians 100 years ago during the Ottoman Empire. The book, along with a second companion photography book, Dildilian Brothers – Memories of a Lost Armenian Home: Photography and the Story of an Armenian Family in Anatolia, 1888-1923 released last month in Turkey, will be available for purchase.