Dr. Suren Manukyan named as 18th Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor

September 10, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

Dr. Suren Manukyan speaks next to the Armenian flag

Dr. Manukyan is the author of some thirty articles in the field of genocide and oriental studies. In his research interests, Dr. Manukyan explores the history of genocide, which explains the origins of social behaviors that lead up to mass murder, including prejudices, stereotypes, racism, religious and ethnic hatred, and discrimination.

Kanzan visiting professor to give talk on conscription of Armenians into the Ottoman Army

September 4, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

Dr. Ohannes Kılıçdağı on left side of image and Armenian officers in reserve of Ottoman Army, 1914 on right

Dr. Ohannes Kılıçdağı, the 2020-21 Henry Khanzadian Kazan visiting professor, will give his first public talk at Fresno State “‘Living together requires dying together’: Conscription of Armenians into the Ottoman Army after the 1908 Revolution” at 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 18 on Zoom. The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Ari Şekeryan to give three public lectures on Armenians in the Ottoman empire after the genocide

January 29, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

16th Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor Dr. Ari Şekeryan

The lecture presents an overview of the political and social developments that happened in the Ottoman Empire during the Armistice period and it explores how the Armenian community organized itself while facing political turmoil.

Armenian Studies names Dr. Ari Şekeryan as 16th Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan visiting professor

December 11, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

Şekeryan will give three public lectures in the Spring semester, under the general theme of the Armistice years. Based on a collection of Armenian and Ottoman Turkish press, the lectures provide new research on a neglected period in the history of the late Ottoman Empire and Ottoman Armenians.

Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies Dr. Ümit Kurt gives second public lecture, ‘Proactive Local Perpetrators: Mehmet Yasin (Sani Kutluğ) and Ali Cenani’

October 15, 2018.Reading time 7 minutes.

Dr. Ümit Kurt, Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies at Fresno State for Fall 2018

Armenian Studies Program Coordinator Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian announced that Dr. Ümit Kurt has been appointed as the 15th Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies at Fresno State for the Fall 2018 semester. The Kazan Visiting Professorship was established through a generous endowment established by Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan.

Dr. Yektan Türkyılmaz: Lecture on ‘Armenians on Records’

March 5, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

Dr. Dr. Yektan Türkyılmaz will give the next Armenian Studies lecture on March 7.

Dr. Yektan Türkyılmaz, Kazan Visiting Professor of Armenian Studies at Fresno State, will give a lecture, “Armenians on Records: Music Production from Homeland to Diasporas,” at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7, in the University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium, Room 191 on the Fresno State campus.

‘Van Vaspurakan Armenians: From Renaissance to Resistance and Genocide’

January 31, 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

Dr. Yektan Türkyılmaz will give a presentation on “Van Vaspurakan Armenians: From Renaissance to Resistance and Genocide” at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 6, in the University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium, Room 191 on the Fresno State campus. The presentation is part of the Spring Lecture Series of the Armenian Studies Program.