Անթոնիա Արսլանի «Մշոյ գիրքը»-ի արեւմտահայերէն թարգմանութեան ներկայացումը Երեւանի մէջ / Western Armenian Translation of Antonia Arslan's "The Book of Mush" Launched in Yerevan

Երեքշաբթի, 13 Հոկտեմբերին, իտալահայ անուանի գրող Անթոնիա Արսլանի «Մշոյ գիրքը» վիպակի արեւտահայերէն թարգմանութիւնը ներկայացուած Է Երեւանի «Զանգակ» գրատան մէջ։ Թարգմանութիւնը լոյս տեսած էր 2025-ին Ազգային Առաջնորդարանի «Սիս» հրատարակչատունէն՝ դիւանապետ դոկտ. Վարդան Մատթէոսեանի թարգմանութեամբ։

Ձեռնարկը տեղի ունեցած է «Թիւֆէնկեան» բարեգործական հիմնադրամի եւ «Save Armenia»-ի աջակցութեամբ։ Բացման խօսքը կատարած է հիմնադրամի հոգաբարձուներու խորհուրդի անդամ Անդրանիկ Գասպարեան, որ շեշտած է Հայաատանի մէջ գիրքի ներկայացումին կարեւորութիւնը,։

How Gen Z Is Using TikTok to Save Western Armenian

 Ella Chakarian

Anelga Hajjar started posting videos on TikTok feeling the way most people do — like she was just talking into the void. In Chicago, where she works as an actor and writer, Hajjar, 23, said the majority of Armenians around her speak Eastern Armenian. She said she struggles to find other Western Armenian speakers herself. So, she turned to social media.

“I just wanted to have a space where I myself could speak Armenian, because there’s no one here I can speak Armenian [with],” said Hajjar.

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.

Aurora Mardiganian, la Anna Frank armenia

 Sabrina Chemen

En Génesis, capítulo 8, se relata el fin del diluvio de Noé. El versículo 4 dice: “Y reposó el arca en el mes séptimo, a los diecisiete días del mes, sobre los montes de Armenia”. En algunas versiones bíblicas, el final es reemplazado por “sobre los montes de Ararat”. 

Eduardo Kozanlian, autor de la nueva edición del libro Subasta de almas o Armenia arrasada, que cuenta el testimonio de Aurora, una adolescente que sobrevivió al genocidio armenio, lee dicha frase en el monumento del Boulevard Monte Ararat, en Buenos Aires, donde se tomaron las fotografías para este artículo, como una muestra de la antigüedad y larga vida del pueblo armenio. 

As the Met reclassifies Russian art as Ukrainian, not everyone is convinced

 Edgar Helmore

Questions of attribution are constantly under review by art scholars, but rarely are they so topical or heated as institutional efforts underway in the US and in Europe to reclassify art once described as Russian as Ukrainian.

In New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has quietly changed the name of an 1899 painting by the French Impressionist Edgar Degas from Russian Dancer to Dancer in Ukrainian Dress.

The Met also holds works by Arkhyp Kuindzhi and Ilya Repin, a 19th-century painter who was born in what is now Ukraine. The artists were previously listed as Russian and are now categorized as Ukrainian.

But seascape painter Ivan Aivazovsky, whom the Met had also changed from Russian to Ukrainian, was abruptly relisted as Armenian on Thursday, after an outcry from New York’s Armenian community.

Tesis de Martín Montenegro sobre la poesía de Bedrós Turián y Siamantó en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UBA)

El 26 de octubre pasado, se realizó de manera virtual la defensa de la tesis de Martín Montenegro “Las expresiones poéticas de Bedrós Turián y Siamantó vinculadas a la resistencia armenia frente al imperialismo turco-otomano durante los años previos al genocidio armenio”, presentada para la Maestría en Literaturas en Lenguas Extranjeras y Literaturas Comparadas de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.

El tribunal compuesto por el Dr. Vartán Matiossián, la Dra. Nora Sforza y el Dr. Marcelo Topuzian calificó la tesis por unanimidad como “sobresaliente, con recomendación de publicación”. 

La historia de Aurora Mardiganián resuena con renovada fuerza un siglo después

El 20 de octubre de 2022 se presentó en la Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno, el libro “Subasta de Almas o Armenia Arrasada”, un relato histórico de Aurora Mardiganián, sobreviviente del genocidio armenio perpetrado  por el Imperio Otomano y negado en la actualidad por su estado heredero, la República de Turquía.

Un panel de alto nivel académico, compuesto por Claudia Piñeiro, Pablo Alí, Fabián Bosoer, José Emilio Burucúa, Ariel Crespo, Vartán Matiossián y Juan Gabriel Tokatlian, moderados por Julieta Ojunian, se dio cita en el auditorio Jorge Luis Borges ante una cantidad de público que colmó las instalaciones.

El libro condensa un proyecto iniciado hace más de 30 años por iniciativa de Eduardo Kozanlián,  muy elogiado por los panelistas en virtud de su rigurosa investigación que incluye la recuperación de 15 minutos de un filme perdido en el inicio del siglo XX, película producida en Hollywood en la que Aurora Mardiganián protagonizó su propia historia de supervivencia.

Book on Dancer and Writer Armen Ohanian by Vartan Matiossian and Artsvi Bakhchinyan Published by Fresno State Armenian Series

The Armenian Series of The Press at California State University, Fresno announced the publication of its sixteenth volume, “A Woman of the World: Armen Ohanian, the “Dancer of Shamakha,” by Vartan Matiossian and Artsvi Bakhchinyan. 

Se reedita Subasta de almas o Armenia arrasada

El año 2022 comienza con una importante noticia: está a punto de salir a la luz la cuarta edición en castellano del libro Subasta de almas o Armenia arrasada: La historia de Aurora Mardiganian, el testimonio de una adolescente que sobrevivió al genocidio perpetrado por Turquía contra el pueblo armenio entre 1915 y 1923. Esta obra fundamental retrata en primera persona la barbarie humana y la tragedia del pueblo armenio. Como advierte el historiador Pascual Ohanian, “los testimonios de Aurora Mardiganian deben leerse como verdaderos documentos históricos”.

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.

Vartan Matiossian's New Book, "The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide," Just Published by I. B. Tauris

I.B.Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has announced the publication of the inaugural book in the Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World series by Dr. Vartan Matiossian titled The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History and ‘Medz Yeghern’.

Book Launch: Gurghen Sarkissian's “My Memoirs (1914-1921)”

Sis Publications, an imprint of the Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church, has just released a bilingual edition of “My Memoirs (1914-1921),” the unfinished recollections of Gurghen Sarkissian (1898-1972), which constitute a valuable testimony of the crucial period leading to the foundation and demise of the first independent Republic of Armenia. Vartan Matiossian, Executive Director of the Eastern Prelacy and editor and translator of the book, presented it on Sunday, June 13, at the hall of the St. Gregory the Illuminator Church in Philadelphia, under the auspices of His Eminence Archbishop Anoushavan Tanielian, Prelate, following Divine Liturgy.

NAASR Announces Winners of 2020 Sona Aronian Armenian Studies Book Prizes

The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prizes for Excellence in Armenian Studies: Prof. Houri Berberian for the monograph Roving Revolutionaries: Armenians and the Connected Revolutions in the Russian, Iranian, and Ottoman Worlds (University of California Press) and Dr. Lou Ann Matossian, Dr. Vartan Matiossian, and the late Aris Sevag for the translation of Bedros Keljik’s Armenian-American Sketches (The Armenian Studies Series of the Press at California State University, Fresno). The 2020 awards are for books with a 2019 publication date.

Կամաւորական քայլերգ (Marcha de los Voluntarios)

Խօսք՝ Գէորգ Կառվարենց

Texto: Kevork Garvaréntz

 

Երաժշտութիւն՝ Բարսեղ Կանաչեան

Música: Parsegh Ganachián

Սպաներէն թարգմանութիւն՝ Վարդան Մատթէոսեան

Traducción al castellano: Vartán Matiossián

Յառա՜ջ, նահատակ ցեղի անմահներ,

Վեց դարու անմոռ վրէժի զրահներ,

Կատարն հայրենի լերանց հեռագոյն,

Երթանք կոթողել դրօշակն եռագոյն:

Հսկայ նուիրման Տորմիղ հրաթեւ,

Կամաւոր բանակ,

Յառա՜ջ, յառաջ անսասան,

Յառա՜ջ անդեդեւ

Դէպի յաղթանակ, յաղթանակ:

Վատին սեւ արիւն մեր հողն ոռոգեց,

Տարագիր հայն իր կեանքը նորոգեց,

Երէկ՝ շղթայուած, այսօր՝ ինքնավար,

Յարեալ վեհօրէն դամբանէն խաւար:

Հսկայ նուիրման Տորմիղ հրաթեւ,

Կամաւոր բանակ,

Յառա՜ջ, յառաջ անսասան,

Յառա՜ջ անդեդեւ

Դէպի յաղթանակ, յաղթանակ:

¡Adelante, inmortales de la raza inmolada,

corazas de seis siglos de imborrable represalia!

En la cumbre de las lejanas montañas patrias

vayamos a enarbolar la enseña tricolor.

Armada de ígneas alas y colosal devoción,

ejército de voluntarios,

¡adelante, adelante sin temor!

¡Adelante sin titubeo

hacia la victoria, la victoria!

La negra sangre del villano nuestra tierra regó,

el armenio expatriado su vida renovó,

ayer en cadenas y hoy soberano,

de la tenebrosa tumba en gloriosa resurrección.

Armada de ígneas alas y colosal devoción,

ejército de voluntarios,

¡adelante, adelante sin temor!

¡Adelante sin titubeo

hacia la victoria, la victoria!

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: its meaning to Armenians

Avedis Hadjian

With hundreds dead on both sides, the war between Armenian and Azeri forces in Karabakh — in Armenian, Artsakh — a mountainous enclave in the Southern Caucasus, is now anything but ‘frozen’, as it has long been described. A tenuous ceasefire had held since 1994, when the population of this historically Armenian region secured its de facto independence, in close cooperation with the Republic of Armenia. Peace has mostly prevailed since then, except for a four-day war in 2016 and a major flare-up last July.

The immediate cause of the fighting that broke out on 27 September is Azerbaijan’s attempt to reclaim territory that was within its borders during the Soviet period. After the Caucasian Bureau of the Bolshevik Party initially recognised Karabakh’s right to autonomy and promising it to Armenia following the republic’s sovietisation in 1920, Joseph Stalin, then commissar of nationalities of the Soviet Union, intervened, and the Soviets gave Karabakh to Azerbaijan in 1921. Armenians argue that this decision flies in the face of its history of continuous autonomy under Armenian princes since at least the eighth century and, more importantly, its population being more than 90% Armenian. In 1923, the Soviet government proclaimed the enclave an autonomous region within the Socialist Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan.

I.B. Tauris Launches a New Book Series titled Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World

I.B. Tauris (an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing) announced the launch of a new series titled Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World. Prof. Bedross Der Matossian will serve as the series editor. Recent decades have seen the expansion of Armenian Studies from insular history to a broader, more interactive field within an inter-regional and global context. This series responds to this growth by promoting innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Armenian history, politics, and culture in the period between 1500-2000. Focusing on the geographies of the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Contemporary Russia [Eastern Armenia], it directs specific attention to imperial and post-imperial frameworks: from the Ottoman Empire to Modern Turkey/Arab Middle East; the Safavid/Qajar Empires to Iran; and the Russian Empire to Soviet Union/Post-Soviet territories.

Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the field, the series welcomes proposals from scholars in Ottoman/Turkish Studies, Iranian Studies, Slavic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Mediterranean Studies, and disciplines of History, Political Science, Anthropology, Literature and Sociology, among others. Topics and themes include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Trade and economy; Cultural Production; Political History; Gender; Intra and Inter-religious relations; Diaspora; Genocide; Nationalism and Identity formation; and Democratization.  The series will publish monographs and edited collections. All proposal and manuscripts are subject to rigorous peer review. Der Matossian commented: “It is an honor to serve as the editor of this exciting series. We have excellent books in the pipeline. With the support of a highly qualified Advisory Board, I am confident that we will be able to advance the field of Armenian Studies from an interdisciplinary perspective.”

The forthcoming books in the series include The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History and ‘Medz Yeghern’ by Vartan Matiossian and Picturing the Ottoman Armenian World: Photography in Erzerum, Kharpert, Van and Beyond by David Low.  

English Translation of Bedros Keljik’s "Armenian-American Sketches" Published

Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Berberian Coordinator of the Armenian Studies Program, announced that the English translation of Bedros Keljik’s Armenian-American Sketches has been published as volume 8 in the Armenian Series of The Press, at California State University, Fresno.

Panel on “Bilingualism: Challenges and Benefits of Learning and Living in Multiple Worlds” at Harvard

A panel discussion entitled “Bilingualism: Challenges and Benefits of Learning and Living in Multiple Worlds,” on Thursday, March 5, 2020, at 7:30 p.m. at Harvard University, Science Center, Auditorium A, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA.

This program is presented by the NAASR/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Lecture Series on Contemporary Armenian Issues and is co-sponsored by St. Stephen’s Armenian Elementary School and the Harvard Armenian Student Association. It is free and open to the public.

Western Armenian in the 21st Century Panel a Success

Florence Avakian

A Nor’easter with pounding rain and howling winds, did not prevent more than 60 brave souls in attending a fascinating forum on “Western Armenian in the 21st Century: A Dialogue About Challenges and New Approaches.” The panel discussion was held in the Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Church in New York on October 16. The departing point of the discussion was the recent publication by the SAS of the collective volume Western Armenian in the 21st Century: Challenges and New Approaches, edited by Bedross Der Matossian and Barlow Der Mugrdechian.