Dr. Vartan Matiossian to Discuss ‘Language, History, and Medz Yeghern’ in Zoom Lecture

Dr. Vartan Matiossian will discuss “What’s in a Name: Language, the Politics of the Armenian Genocide, and ‘Medz Yeghern’” in a Zoom presentation. The presentation, which will be held at 7 p.m. PST on Friday, January 28, is part of the Spring 2022 Lecture Series of the Armenian Studies Program at California State University at Fresno and is supported by the Leon S. Peters Foundation.

An Armenian story in 35 languages

Artsvi Bakhchinyan, an Armenian Studies scholar, researcher, and translator based in Yerevan, brought into fruition a unique literary project. "Zangak-97" Publishing House recently printed a collection of 35 translations of one story. The name of the book is "The Hands," authored by Armenian writer and psychologist Elda Grin. The story was actually written in two languages: Armenian and Russian. Artsvi Bakhchinyan arranged translations in 32 languages, including the European ones, as well as Chinese, Japanese, Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Hindi and Hebrew. He prepared also a version in Western Armenian, included as an appendix.