Professor and genocide survivor explores memories of WWII through popular media

November 6, 2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

Some of the Jewish children rescued by the Krauses wave to the Statue of Liberty upon arrival in New York, June 1939. US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

In her talk, “Remembering the WWII Past through Popular Media,” Dr. Amila Becirbegovic, Ph.D., explores how contemporary generations frame the history of World War II and the Holocaust through popular representations, such as social media, comedies, comics, films, and video games.

Papazian to give talk on Muslim and Alevi Armenians lecture

September 28, 2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

The lecture will be devoted to the officially Muslim and hence legally “non-Armenian” citizens of the Republic of Turkey who, drawing on their Armenian ancestors, Islamized or Alevized generations earlier, identify as Armenians today.

Lecture series focuses on the therapeutic benefits of art

February 9, 2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

The unique workshops are designed to benefit everyone, whether or not they are artists.

CAH interim dean Chapman to present lectures on women leaders in antiquity

February 25, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Discussions of three ancient women leaders who shaped their world as well as ours.

Canceled – Author of ‘Roving Revolutionaries’ to speak as part of Armenian Studies lecture series

March 9, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

Dr. Houri Berberian, author of “Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian and Ottoman Worlds”

Three of the formative revolutions that shook the early twentieth-century world occurred almost simultaneously in regions bordering each other. Though the Russian, Iranian, and Young Turk Revolutions all exploded between 1904 and 1911.

Armenian studies public lecture focuses on migration to North America

March 2, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

The Armenian migratory experience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries both parallels and sheds light on themes such as smuggling, deportation, and the criminalization of migration, that are central to the issue of global migration in the 21st century.

Local poet Sam Pereira featured in Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute lecture

November 22, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Fresno State alumnus, poet, and English teacher Sam Pereira will read selections from his lifetime of material and share insights during his lecture “Creating a Third Country: The Combining of American and Portuguese Cultures into Nuanced Poetry” at 6 p.m., Dec. 5 in the University Business Center, PB 191. Pereira has published six books including […]

Dr. Sheklian to speak on religious practices and interactions between Armenians and Turks

February 15, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Dr. Christopher Sheklian, director of the Zohrab Information Center, Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church, will present an illustrated lecture on “Liturgy and Property in Istanbul: The Armenian Minority in Turkey Today,” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 22, in the University Business Center (Room 191 Auditorium).

‘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.

Armenian Studies presents ‘Awards of Armenia and the Armenian Church’ by Nika Babayan

January 2, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Nika Babayan will discuss "Awards of Armenia and the Armenian Church"

Nika Babayan, will present a lecture entitled “Awards of Armenia and the Armenian Church” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 19 in the University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium, Room 191. The free, public presentation is part of the Fall Lecture Series of the Armenian Studies Program.

Global Music Lecture Series presents Dr. Anthony Seeger

March 15, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

The Department of Music presents Dr. Anthony Seeger as this year’s Global Music Lecture Series featured speaker. Dr. Seeger is an ethnomusicologist, anthropologist, record producer, audiovisual archivist and musician. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Ethnomusicology at UCLA and a current Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution. His research and applied activities have focused on […]

Fake news in journalism talk kicks off Ethics Lecture Series

February 2, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

~ Reprinted from FresnoStateNews.com The Leon S. Peters Ethics Lecture Series begins its spring semester line-up at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, with a panel discussion on “Journalism, Fake News and The First Amendment” in the Alice Peters Auditorium (Peters Business building). The panel will feature Jim Boren, executive editor and senior vice president of […]

Armenian Studies Lecture: The Silk Road and Armenian Textiles Throughout the Centuries

January 31, 2017.Reading time 3 minutes.

~ By Barlow Der Mugrdechian Dr. Levon Chookaszian, UNESCO chair of Art History, Yerevan State University, will present an illustrated lecture on “The Silk Road and Armenian Textiles Throughout the Centuries” at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 7, in the University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium, Room 191, on the Fresno State campus. The lecture […]

Lecture: Journalism, Fake News and the First Amendment

January 27, 2017.Reading time 1 minute.

Legitimate news organizations are under assault because of the rise in prevalence of “fake news.” A panel discussion on “Journalism, Fake News and the First Amendment” will be presented from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, to discuss the state of journalism in 2017. Panelists will include: Faith Sidlow, professor of Media, Communications and Journalism Jes […]

Armenian Studies Lecture: War, Peace, & the Making of Minorities in the Post-Ottoman Middle East, 1919-1923

January 26, 2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

Dr. Laura Robson of Portland State University will discuss “War, Peace and the Making of Minorities in the Post-Ottoman Middle East, 1919-1923” at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 3. Robson will illustrate how the League of Nations created a new Middle Eastern politics of minority and majority through peace agreements, refugee resettlement efforts and partition of […]

Dr. Richard Hovannisian to present new book at Fresno State

January 21, 2017.Reading time 4 minutes.

Dr. Richard Hovannisian, professor emeritus of Armenian and Near Eastern History at UCLA, will present a talk on his newly published book “Armenian Communities of the Northeastern Mediterranean: Musa Dagh—Dört Yol—Kessab” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, in the University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium, Room 191, on the Fresno State campus. The presentation is the […]