Society for Armenian Studies Will Hold 40th Anniversary Workshop in Yerevan

The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS), founded in 1974, will organize a workshop to mark the 40th anniversary of its founding. The workshop, to take place October 3-5, 2014, with the participation of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, will bring together twenty scholars from abroad and twenty from Armenia to deliver papers on a number of topics such as inadequately studied aspects of Armenian history in the past millennium; the representation and reflection of the Armenian Genocide in the arts and culture in general; testimonies and reminiscences of the survivors of the Genocide; accomplishments, perspectives and methodologies in contemporary Armenian literary studies and historiography; and, the Armenian Diaspora in the 21st century, aspirations and challenges. The workshop will take place at the Presidium Hall of Sessions at the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.