NEWS & EVENTS

THE CALENDARS PAGE

My Talks, Interviews, etc.

1. A CURRENT CALENDAR with LINKS

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2. A Post-CALENDAR, with LINKS to recorded and archived events.

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Presented April 12, 2022

AHARI Armenian Historical Society Of Rhode Island.

TOPIC: How A House in the Homeland got its title:

Bertram describes how pilgrims held a hope

of finding their ancestral house, and why they considered it their homeland's beating heart..

LINK to the Zoom Recording

to be posted on the AHARI website.

This one is the informal recording. :)

LINK to the original AHARI FLYER

Presented Oct., 2016

“Armenian Americans and Anatolian Identity:

The Encounter with Home” •

Hrant Dink Foundation Symposium:

Critical Approaches to Armenian Identity in the 21st

Century: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Transformation .

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Presented December 3, 2022

MESA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

“Encountering Homeland: : Survivor Objects and Moments of Meaning-Making at the Place of a Lost Ottoman Past” in Afterlives of Violence: Archival Traces, Survivor Objects, and Affective Experiences in Turkey and Syria . Middle East Studies Association, Annual Conference, Denver.

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Presented October 20, 2022

CAL STATE FRESNO

. A House in the Homeland Book Talk: The deep spiritual dimensions of this trip allowed pilgrims to engage with their painful pasts in ways that were often healing. Cal State Fresno, The Armenian StudiesProgram and the Clara Bousian Bedrosian Memorial Fund

Presented April 22, 2022

UCLA Promise Armenian Institute

with discussant: Melissa Bilal

TOPIC:

In a fraught but transcendent place, pilgrims invent a series of rituals

so that village by village, town by town, or even house by house,

they reveal that they are standing on sacred ground.

LINK to PAI Youtube channel, where you can find the recorded talk

Presented April 20, , 2022

UC BERKELEY:

ARMENIAN STUDIES PROGRAM

TOPIC:

Muslim Armenians,a new cohort.

Pilgrims' ideas of home and homeland change when they encounter

a once hidden population: the descendants of Armenians who are now Muslim.

LINK to the Zoom Recorded April 20, 2022 (it starts with a bit of chit chat. sorry. )

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Presented May 11, 2022

NAASR: The National Association of Armenian Research and

SAS: The Society for Armenian Studies

TOPIC:

PERSONALIZING THE MAP of HOMELAND:

A personal homeland is constructed when travelers in search of their lost villages bring to them the stories, recipes, music and lore learned in their diasporic hostland,making the home and hostland landscapes seem to breathe like a single map, and impacting their under-standing and experiences of homeland in powerful ways.

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