Unpacking Armenian Studies
119 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsThe USC Institute of Armenian Studies promotes scholarship that addresses national and global challenges; impacting policy, development, and progress.
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Unpacking Armenian Studies with Dr. Shushan Karapetian
April 18, 2019 07:00 - 43 minutes - 59.4 MBLanguage and identity— but this time also about belonging and anxiety (or guilt) – Dr. Shushan Karapetian researches these issues in the framework of heritage languages in a diasporic context. In conversation with Salpi Ghazarian, director of the Institute of Armenian Studies, they discuss the trajectory of bilingual education, and the link between the Armenian language and expressions of Armenianness. To learn more about the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, visit http://armenian.usc.edu...
Unpacking Armenian Studies with Dr. Lilit Keshishyan
April 09, 2019 07:00 - 42 minutes - 58.5 MBIdentity, diaspora, literature -- Dr. Lilit Keshishyan explores these topics in a conversation with the Director of the Institute of Armenian Studies, Salpi Ghazarian. Her dissertation examines the representation and reconceptualization of identity in Armenian Diaspora literature focusing on the works of Vahé Oshagan, Hakob Karapents and Vahe Berberian. To learn more about the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, visit http://armenian.usc.edu.
Unpacking Armenian Studies - Dr. Tom Catena 2/14/19
February 14, 2019 09:00The New York Times called him "Jesus Christ." He is Dr. Tom Catena, the 2017 Laureate of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative and the only doctor caring for 750,000 patients in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. He joins Salpi Ghazarian, Director of the Institute of Armenian Studies at USC, in this episode of Unpacking Armenian Studies. To learn more about the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, visit armenian.usc.edu.
Unpacking Armenian Studies - Dr. Tom Catena 2/14/19
February 14, 2019 09:00The New York Times called him "Jesus Christ." He is Dr. Tom Catena, the 2017 Laureate of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative and the only doctor caring for 750,000 patients in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. He joins Salpi Ghazarian, Director of the Institute of Armenian Studies at USC, in this episode of Unpacking Armenian Studies. To learn more about the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, visit armenian.usc.edu.
Unpacking Armenian Studies - Rober Koptas - 1/23/2019
January 23, 2019 08:30 - 58 minutes - 66.5 MBRunning an Armenian publishing house in Turkey is a challenge, on many fronts. Rober Koptas is editor-in-chief of the Aras Publishing House, co-founded in 1993 by Hrant Dink, Mkrtich Margosyan and Yetvart Tovmasyan. Aras publications are bridges between the Armenian experience and the Turkish readership. Rober Koptas joins Salpi Ghazarian and explains that readers also seek Aras publications because, independent of the Armenian content, many of the titles are windows into Anatolian life that...
Unpacking Armenian Studies - Dr. Anna Ohanyan 1/17/2019
January 17, 2019 08:00 - 45 minutes - 51.8 MBAnna Ohanyan was the first generation of post-independence young academics to leave Armenia and continue her studies in the United States. She studies non-traditional, many-sided conflicts and complicated geopolitical agendas in the Caucasus and in the Balkans. Anna Ohanyan is the Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Stonehill College. She joins Salpi Ghazarian, Director of the Institute of Armenian Studies at USC, in this discussi...
Unpacking Armenian Studies - Dr. Kristin Cavoukian - 1/8/2019
January 09, 2019 08:00 - 38 minutes - 43.5 MBArmenian-ness, identity, exclusion, diasporas, homeland-diaspora relations are both personal and academic questions for Dr. Kristin Cavoukian of the University of Toronto. Join Salpi Ghazarian, Director, USC Institute of Armenian Studies, in this episode of Unpacking Armenian Studies. To learn more about the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, please visit Armenian.USC.edu
The Quake - Episode 04
January 03, 2019 08:21 - 17 minutes - 14.5 MBAmid slow change in Gyumri, the metal containers still stand, failing to resist rust and decay any longer, as reminders of the earthquake that buried my parents’ youth and the future and promise of an entire generation. In this episode of The Quake, the USC Institute of Armenian Studies's Chitjian Researcher Archivist Gegham Mughnetsyan explores the very personal and public story of rescue in the aftermath of the 1988 earthquake in Gyumri, Armenia. To learn more about the USC Institute o...
The Quake - Episode 03
December 23, 2018 04:22 - 12 minutes - 12.4 MB“The workers broke the concrete panels with sledgehammers, then welders cut the metal and opened a passage to rescue my aunt and my two cousins.” In this episode of The Quake, the USC Institute of Armenian Studie's Chitjian Researcher Archivist Gegham Mughnetsyan explores the very personal and public story of rescue in the aftermath of the 1988 earthquake in Gyumri, Armenia. To learn more about the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, please visit. armenian.usc.edu.
Unpacking Armenian Studies - Dr. Sebouh Aslanian, 12/18/18
December 18, 2018 18:12 - 47 minutes - 54.7 MBDr. Sebouh Aslanian, born in Ethiopia, studies the Armenian merchants from Iran’s New Julfa region who operated simultaneously and successfully across all the major empires of the 17thand 18th centuries. These merchants were the original transnational, global Armenians, and their legacy is visible throughout South and East Asia in the form of churches and cultural monuments. Most remarkably, their philanthropy bankrolled Armenian printing capacity in Venice, Amsterdam, Livorno, Madras, Cal...
The Quake - Episode 02
December 14, 2018 14:42 - 9 minutes - 8.2 MB"My father, kept climbing the stairs of the wreckage and carried out their library, book stack by book stack." USC Institute of Armenian Studies Chitjian Researcher Archivist Gegham Mughnetsyan continues exploring the very personal and very public story of the 1988 earthquake that struck his hometown Gyumri, Armenia.
Unpacking Armenian Studies - Dr. Houri Berberian 12/10/2018
December 10, 2018 11:11 - 42 minutes - 49 MBDr. Houri Berberian has written about Armenian involvement in Iran’s Constitutional Revolution. She talks about life in Lebanon during the Civil War to undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley where she came to appreciate the connectedness of the peoples and issues of the greater Middle East, and the Armenian role in regional processes. Join Salpi Ghazarian, Director, USC Institute of Armenian Studies and Dr. Houri Berberian, Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies, and Directo...
The Quake - Episode 01
December 07, 2018 23:31 - 9 minutes - 8.77 MB“I was born in a kindergarten. Something terrible had happened to my hometown two and a half years earlier that had left the city without a maternity hospital.” Tune in to THE QUAKE - a new podcast miniseries from the USC Institute of Armenian Studies where the Institute’s Chitjian Research Archivist Gegham Mughnetsyan explores the very personal and public history of the powerful earthquake that devastated the northern region of Armenia and his hometown Gyumri on December 7, 1988, and ...
Unpacking Armenian Studies - Paul Krekorian 12/4/2018
December 05, 2018 00:13 - 32 minutes - 37.4 MBLos Angeles City Councilmember Paul Krekorian is at the forefront of policy development. He talks about growing up in the San Fernando Valley, his involvement in politics and policy, and how to connect people’s needs to government policies. Join Salpi Ghazarian, Director, USC Institute of Armenian Studies and LA City Councilmember Paul Krekorian in this episode of Unpacking Armenian Studies. To learn more about the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, please visit Armenian.USC.edu
Unpacking Armenian Studies - Dr. Shant Shekherdimian 11/25/2018
November 26, 2018 02:57 - 44 minutes - 51.2 MBHealth care research usually falls outside mainstream Armenian Studies, yet, any focus on contemporary issues of development in Armenia must address the complexities of health care delivery. Dr. Shant Shekherdimian is a pediatric surgeon who has researched Armenia’s and Karabakh’s health care systems – policy, service delivery, education, quality and needs – and his conclusions are surprising. He also focuses on the supply and demand of health care services from outside Armenia – from Diaspo...
Unpacking Armenian Studies - Dr. Christina Maranci 11/16/2018
November 16, 2018 19:07 - 46 minutes - 53.5 MBArt history is not just the history of art, it’s history. Period. Dr. Christina Maranci, of Tufts University, is a historian whose research places art, architecture especially, and the material objects of Armenia and Armenians within a critical and historical context. It’s a different, and illuminating (pardon the pun) take on Armenian history. And… it brings to life the connections between ancient monuments and modern preservation and creation efforts. Join Salpi Ghazarian, Director, USC...
Unpacking Armenian Studies - Dr. Georgi Derlugyan 11/5/2018
November 05, 2018 23:21 - 55 minutes - 63.4 MBProfessor Georgi Derlugyan, Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi joins Salpi Ghazarian, Director, USC Institute of Armenian Studies for a conversation about Armenian Studies, Armenia, the Caucasus, post-Soviet transformations, evolution and revolution, and the “New Armenia”. Dr. Derlugyan studies the transformation of societies, and in that context, analyzes Armenians’ Soviet and post-Soviet experiences. His path, from Krasnodar to Moscow to Moza...
Unpacking Armenian Studies - Dr. Katy Pearce 11/5/2018
November 05, 2018 22:13 - 56 minutes - 64.7 MBSalpi Ghazarian, Director of the USC Institute of Armenian Studies, is joined by Dr. Katy Pearce, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. How did Dr. Pearce first become interested in studying the Caucasus? How does she blend her interest in Armenia and Azerbaijan with her research in communications. Dr. Pearce both studies and contributes to social media. She talks about understanding societal transformations as evidenced in internet and soc...
Unpacking Armenian Studies - Episode 00
October 02, 2018 23:20 - 51 seconds - 982 KBWelcome to the new podcast channel from The University of Southern California Institute of Armenian Studies. This is a new avenue for promoting scholarship that addresses national and global challenges impacting policy, development and progress. For that, We'll be talking to academics, politicians, journalists, artists, authors, publishers, and teachers, along with students, social media influencers, young professionals and entrepreneurs. Subscribe to the channel and the episodes...