Der Mugrdechian SAS Outstanding Book Awards Announced

The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) is pleased to announce that Talar Chahinian’s Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile (Syracuse University Press, 2023) and Ari Şekeryan’s The Armenians and the Fall of the Ottoman Empire: After Genocide, 1918–1923 (Cambridge University Press, 2023) have been awarded this year’s Der Mugrdechian SAS Outstanding Book Award. An honorable mention has been awarded to Vartan Matiossian’s The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History, and ‘Medz Yeghern’ (I.B. Tauris, 2022).

Dr. Vartan Matiossian among winners of NAASR 2023 Dr. Sona Aronian Armenian Studies Book Prizes

The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) is pleased to announce the 2023 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prizes for Excellence in Armenian Studies, jointly awarded to Dr. Vartan Matiossian for The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History and ‘Medz Yeghern’ (I. B. Tauris, 2022), Dr. Henry Shapiro for The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) and to Dr. Gohar Muradyan for the English-language translation Ancient Greek Myths in Medieval Armenian Literature (Brill, 2022), a translation of Հին յունական առասպելների արձագանգները հայ միջնադարեան մատենագրութեան մէջ (2014). The 2023 awards are for books with a 2022 publication date.

Dr. Vartan Matiossian's Book Launched at the Eastern Prelacy in New York

The Eastern Prelacy hosted the book launch of “The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History and ‘Medz Yeghern,’” by historian and literary scholar Vartan Matiossian, on Wednesday, December 8. It was the first public event at the Eastern Prelacy headquarters in Manhattan since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.

The book, published by I.B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, is the inaugural volume in the Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World series. The event was livestreamed and recorded on Facebook. You may watch it here.

Dr. Matiossian, who is also the Executive Director of the Prelacy since 2019, made an extensive and illustrated presentation of the book, which explores the genealogy of the concept of Medz Yeghern (“Great Crime”), the Armenian term widely used for the genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. The subject has been both omitted and misinterpreted in historiography.