23rd Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies

This Colloquium is an annual international conference for graduate students in the Humanities/Social Sciences to present research pertaining to all aspects of Armenian studies, including but not limited to language, literature, history, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, economics, and art history.

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Documentary Screening: Counter-Pedagogies of Forgetting Tour

Join us for a documentary screening

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Believing in Light after Darkness

In this talk, Molly Fee will present her book Believing in Light after Darkness: Displacement and Refugee Resettlement; comments will be provided by Jake Watson.

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Entangled Histories of Tangier During World War II: Muslims, Jews, Refugees, Spaniards & Nazis in an International City

A hybrid lecture by Natalie Bernstien (PhD candidate in History, UCLA). Organized by the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research. Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and UCLA Department of History.

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Empires of Fantasy and Fear: Unfree Migration in the Age of Emancipation

This talk will examine how nineteenth‑century projects of penal reform and colonial expansion across Europe and the Atlantic—spanning deportations from Mecklenburg-Schwerin to Brazil and the emigration of boys from England to Natal—together reveal a transimperial system of displacement that linked carceral governance, migration, and empire‑building through intertwined logics of coercion, reform, and racialized fantasies of agrarian regeneration.

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Guided Photo Exhibition & Book Reading: Counter-Pedagogies of Forgetting Tour

Join us for a guided photo exhibition & book reading (Niños del pájaro azul)

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The Iran War

The third event in the Center's urgent series offering different perspectives on the 2026 Iran War.

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Rev. Dikran Antreasian: A Leader of the Musa Dagh Resistance to the Armenian Genocide

The third Kerr Family Lecture will feature Vahram L. Shemmassian, Ph.D., professor and director of the Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Northridge, with introductory remarks by Rouben Adalian, Ph.D., director of the Armenian National Institute (ANI) in Washington, DC.

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Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran

A lecture in Persian.

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Devoted to You / Love Unto Waste

Introduction by guest programmer Janet Louie, Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University. Post-screening Q&A with Louie and Michael Berry, director of UCLA Center for Chinese Studies.

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