Lectures, Talks
“The Artwork and the Dialectics of Truth Content ‒ Lecture III in Counterpoints. Philosophy, Historiography, Art - A Dialectical-Discursive Triangle. Co-Sponsored by AGBU NY and Atamian Hovsepian Curatorial Practice -Presented at AGBU NY Headquarters. Thursday, April 3rd, 2025.
“Islam in Armenian Literary Culture. Texts, Contexts, Dynamics (Louvain, 2021) - An Analytical- Discursive Tripod”, UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Nov. 21, 2024.
“Nersēs IV Shnorhali (1100-1073) Saint and Politician – A Perspective on the Historical Status and Role of the Armenian Church” On the 850th Anniversary of his Death, Western Prelacy, Nov. 22, 2024.
Lecture Series: Counterpoints. Philosophy, Historiography, Art - A Dialectical-Hermeneutical -Discursive Triangle. Atamian-Hovsepian Curatorial Practice, NY, NY 10010, March 14-May 2, 2024.
-I. Perception, Thought, Praxis. A Dialectical-Hermeneutical Perspective – March 14
-II. Aesthetics of Historical Thinking/Writing – April 4
-III. The Artwork and the Dialectics of Truth Content – [April 3, 2025, at AGBU]
“Armenian Studies as Near/Middle Eastern Studies” ((Hayagitut‘iwně ibrew Merdzawor-Mijin AreweleanGitut‘iwn), Aztag Lsaran, September 30, 2021, Beirut, Lebanon.
“2015: Discourse on the Armenian Condition”, Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA, November 10, 2016, Los Angeles, CA.
“2015 and an Analysis of the Armenian Condition”, Abril Bookstore, November 11, 2016, Los Angeles, CA.
“Taking Things Armenian Beyond the Pillars of Hercules: Plus Ultra - A Discourse”, ARPA Institute (Analysis Research and Planning for Armenia), November 12, 2016, Los Angeles, CA.
“A Hermeneutic Phenomenology of the Armenian Experience in the Islamic World − Paradigms of Interaction and Historicity,” Workshop of Padus-Araxes Association, University of Venice (Ca’ Foscari), Department of Asian and African, Mediterranean Studies, May 5, 2015, Los Angeles, CA.
“The Prophet and Islam in Medieval Armenian History and Literature”, Workshop of Padus-Araxes Association, University of Venice, Department of Asian, African, Mediterranean Studies, May 5, 2015, Venice, Italy.
- “The Armenian Experience in the Islamic World: From Paradigms of Interaction to Contemporary Historicity”, Padua University, Department of Theology, May 4, 2015, Venice, Italy.
“A New Historiography for a New Armenian Sensibility” [Nor Batmagitut‘iwn I Khndir Nor Hayazgats’ut’ean], Abril Bookstore, May 9, 2014, Los Angeles, CA.
“The Armenian Historical Experience: The Impasse and the Discourse”, ARPA (Analysis Research and Planning for Armenia), May 8, 2014, Los Angeles, CA.
“Conceptualizing and De-Conceptualizing Things Armenian: A Historical Hermeneutics”, UCLA, Near East Studies Department, Tuesday May 6, 2014, Los Angeles, CA.
“Technology and the Moving Target of Happiness”, St. Gregory, April 4, 2014, White Plains, NY.
“Things Armenian Beyond the Pillars of Hercules”, Haigazian University Cultural Hour, November 14, 2013, Beirut, Lebanon.
“The Arrow of Truth between the Historic Experience and Historical Writing” [Chmartut‘ean Slak‘ě Batmakan P‘ordzin ew Batmagrut‘ean mijew], Aztag Lsaran, November 11, 2013, Beirut, Lebanon.
“Armenian History Beyond the Pillars of Hercules: Plus Ultra”, NAASR (National Association for Armenian Studies), May 9, 2013, Boston, MA.
“Armenian Realpolitik in the Islamic World Diverging Paradigms and the Case of Cilicia Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries”- The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), March 5, 1013, New York, NY.
“Things Armenian and the Crisis of Armenian Studies: The Centers for Armenian Studies in Europe and the United States”, Aztag Lsaran/Auditorium-Hamazgayin Armenian Hall, Wednesday Dec.12, 2012, Beirut, Lebanon.
“Armenian Identity, Knowledge and Studies: Synthesis and/or Controversy”, ARPA (Analysis Research and Planning for Armenia), Merdinian Auditorium, April 26, 2012, Los Angeles, CA.
“The Armenians and Islam: Images for a Brighter History of the Armenians”, Lecture at Ararat Eskijian Museum, LA. April 22, 2012.
“Meet the Author and Book Signing”, Abril Bookstore, April 17, 2012, Los Angeles, CA.
“Rethinking Armenian History through Paradigms of Interaction: The Armenian Experience with Islam as Case Study”, Lecture at UCLA, Near East Studies Department, Bunche Hall, April 12, 2012.
“Rethinking the Armenian Experience in the Near East”, Haigazian University, March 22, 2012, Beirut, Lebanon.
“Armenian Narratives, Studies and Realities” (Hayapatum, Hayagitut’iwn, ew Hay Irakanut‘iwn), Aztag- Piwnik Hall, March 8, 2012, Beirut, Lebanon.
“Historical Epistemology and the Intellectual: The Question of Armenian Culture Today” (Batmakan Imats‘abanut‘iwn ew Mtaworakanut‘iwn - Hay Mshakuyt‘i Harts‘ě Aysor), Inknagir, NPAG Center, December 15, 2011, Yerevan, Armenia.
“Oriental and Armenian Studies”- Yerevan State University - Faculty of Oriental Studies, November 30, 2011, Yerevan, Armenia.
“Episodes of the Unwritten History of Armenian Dissidence: In Search for the Truth about a People”- Khach‘atur Abovyan Teachers’ State University of Yerevan, November 11, 2011, Yerevan, Armenia.
“Methodological Issues and Propositions for the Modernization of Armenian Studies” – Yerevan State University, Faculty of History, November 8, 2011, Yerevan, Armenia.
“The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World – Paradigms of Interaction” – Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Nov. 3, 2011, Yerevan, Armenia.
“Islam and the Armenians: Looking at the Near East Differently”, Armenian Studies Endowment at the University of Chicago and the Ara and Edma Dumanian Foundation, University of Chicago, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Pick Lounge, May 11, 2010, Chicago, MI.
“The Armenian Awakening Eastern and Western –The Two Centuries of the Rebirth of the Modern Nation – Culture, Society, Church and Politics” – Symposium at St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, (six sessions), September 2009 – May 2010, New Rochelle NY.
“Armenian-Islamic Interactions and the Problematic of National Identity”, Armenian Presbyterian Church, November 8, 2009, Paramus NJ.
“Khach‘atur Abovyan (1809-1848): Prophet and Martyr of the Armenian Awakening (Zart‘onk’)” – On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth, St. Gregory Church, October 26, 2009, White Plains, NY.
“Islam and the Armenians: Paradigms of a Near Eastern Dialectic”, Armenian Studies Program, University of Michigan, International Institute, January 27, 2009, Ann Arbor, MI.
“The Road from the Fortress of Sis to Republic Square, Yerevan: Milestones on the Six Hundred Year Journey of Armenians”, Holy Martyrs Church, Queens, New York, NY, January 8, 2009, New York, NY.
“Grigor Tat‘wats‘i and Islam: Perceptions of the Self and the Other”, On the Occasion of the 600th of his Death, St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, December 1, 2008, New Rochelle, NY.
“The Problem of Stereotypes in the Teaching of Language and Culture”, Teachers’ College of the Eastern Diocese, July 21-26, 2008, New York, NY.
“Khrimian Hayrik: The Visionary and the Wall of Reality”, On the occasion of the centenary of his death, Armenian Center, Queens, October 26, 2007, New York, NY.
“Armenian Dissidence: Highlights of an Unwritten History- In Search of the ‘Truth’ about a People”, NAASR (National Association for Armenian Studies and Research), September 20, 2007, Boston, MA.
“Armenian Painting in Lebanon in the Light of the Crisis of Identity”, Lecture at the Armenian Center, Queens, New York, January 19, 2007.
“The Eznikian Synthesis and Armenian Intellectual Culture”, Lecture St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, October 16, 2006, New Rochelle, NY.
“Studying Things Armenian as Things Middle Eastern”, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, CUNY, March 27, 2006, New York, NY.
“The Invention of the Armenian Alphabet: The Political Dimensions”, Zohrab Information and Research Center, February 16, 2006.
“Islamic-Armenian Interactions in the Near East Historic Paradigms and Historicity - The Fāṭimid Armenians as Case Study”, Lecture at the Armenian General Benevolent Union- Cairo Chapter, Center of the Egyptian Supreme Cultural Council, May 4, 2004, Cairo, Egypt.
“Islamic-Armenian Interactions in the Near East: Historic Paradigms and Historicity”, The Armenian General Benevolent Union - Cairo Chapter, The American University of Cairo - The Armenian Room, May 6, 2004, Cairo, Egypt.
“The Progressive Origins of Armenian Feminism - Medieval Armenian Dissidence as the Historic Soil and Background”, Armenian General Benevolent Union - Cairo Chapter, Armenian Prelacy, May 7, 2004, Cairo, Egypt.
“Grigor Narekats'i (951-1003): The Great Stranger” – On the Occasion of the Millennial of his Death, Hay Dun, January 30, 2004, Queens, NY.
“The Rainbow Testament of Grigor Narekats‘i – A Re-evaluation of his Literary and Philosophical Legacy”, Haigazian University, March 27, 2003, Beirut, Lebanon.
“Armenian-Turkish Realpolitik- 11th –12th Centuries”, Zohrab Center for Research, New York, August 5, 2002, New York, NY.
“Armenian Persistence: Exploring National Identity-Myth versus Reality”, Armenian Center at Columbia University, May 15, 2002, New York, NY.
“Feminism in Armenian History: Origins in Medieval Heresies”, AIWA (Armenian International Women’s Association), April 7, 2002, Boston, MA.
“A 13th Century summary of the Rasā’il Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’ in Erzinjan, 1280”, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, February 25, 2002, Boston, MA.
“Islam and the Armenians”, Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, February 9, 2000, New York, NY.
“New Light on Armeno-Muslim Relations in the Middle Ages”, Department of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilizations, Harvard University, February 4, 2000, Boston, MA.
“Islamic Sources on Armenia and Armenians: A Critical Exposé”- History Department, UCLA, February 1, 2000, Los Angeles, CA. - “Islam and the Armenian Universe: Historic Models and Historicity”- Lecture at the History and Near Eastern Studies Department, UCLA, January 31, 2000, Los Angeles, CA.
“Armenian Cultural Relations” - Department of Philosophy, Yerevan State University, May 20-24, 1991, Yerevan, Armenia.