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Armenia
Imaging and Imagining Avarayr: Visualizing Armenian History in Early Modern Vaspurakan
Speaker: Erin Piñon, Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University Date & Time: September 6, 2019, 6 PM-7:30 PM Location: American University of Armenia, Room 308E Language: English Imaging and Imagining Avarayr: Visualizing Armenian History in Early Modern Vaspurakan Armenian collective consciousness is saturated with images of the Battle of Avarayr (451). Vardan Mamikonyan […]
Social Justice Activism in the United States
Speaker: Sarah McNamara, Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M UniversityDate & Time: August 27, 2019, 16:00-17:30Location: The Urban Foundation for Sustainable Development, 9 Alex Manoogyan, Room # 106, Yerevan, ArmeniaLanguage: English The twentieth century was an era defined by political upheaval and social justice that changed the meaning of citizenship and equality in the […]
“Roses remind me of Aleppo”: Memories, Strategies, and Aspirations of Ethnic Armenian Women from Syria in Yerevan, Armenia
Speaker: Anahid Matossian, M.S., Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky Date & Time: 11:00-13:00, 31 of July, 2019 Location: Eurasia International University, 4th floor, Room 419, Yerevan, Armenia Language: English with Armenian consecutive interpretation Since the start of the Syrian conflict in March 2011, thousands of Syrians have been displaced all over the […]
Rapid soil assessment through the application of a portable visible/near-infrared spectrometer in Armenia: Current State of the Art
Speaker: Dr. Scott Demyan, Assistant professor at the School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Date & Time: July 29th, 2019, 11:00 A.M. to 1 P.M. Location: Lecture Hall, Center for Ecological and Noosphere Studies Abovian Street 68, Yerevan, Armenia Language: English, Armenian Soils are the basis for human civilization […]
Workshop: Going Beyond Grades: Classroom Assessment Techniques (CAT) in Assessing Learning Progress
An important component of teaching is being able to determine whether students are learning and meeting the objectives and goals for the course. Grades are a common way that instructors can assess how much students are learning in their classes. However, assessing student learning is about more than assigning grades; it is a process and […]
Workshop: Visualizing, Analyzing & Sharing Your Geospatial Data with ArcGIS Online
Speaker: Dr. Diana Ter-Ghazaryan, Department of Geography, University of MiamiDate & Time: June 21, 10:00-15:00Location: American University of ArmeniaLanguage: Armenian and English, some of the printed and electronic materials in English AUA GIS and Remote Sensing Lab in collaboration with the University of Miami and the American Research Institute of South Caucasus (ARISC) is offering […]
Research Methods in Health Care
Speaker: Dr. Hamlet GasoyanDoctoral Fellow, Department of Health Services Administration and Policy,College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USADate & Time: May 29, 2019, 10:00-15:00Location: Yerevan State Medical University, Administrative Building, 5th Floor, Public Health AuditoriumLanguage: Armenian, some of the printed and electronic materials distributed during the seminar will be in English OverviewSome of […]
Azerbaijan
ARISC Fellow’s talk in Baku: Biological Histories of the Late Iron Age in the Talysh Mountains
by Selin Nugent, University of Oxford and ARISC Fellow
Memories Don’t Burn: Soviet Censorship and the Azerbaijani Bard
American Research Institute of the South Caucasus in cooperation with Azerbaijan State Culture and Art University invites you to the presentation Memories Don’t Burn: Soviet Censorship and the Azerbaijani Bard by Anna Oldfield, ARISC Fellow, Coastal Carolina University Venue: 2nd floor, 39 Inshaatchilar Ave., ASCAUDate: 23 May, 2019Time: 2:00 PM Overview: In written literature, defiance […]
Georgia
1-Day Workshop on “Best Practices of Working with Qualitative Data”
Co-sponsor: American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) Dates: July 26 2019Venue: TBCWorking Language: English (additional limited assistance in other languages to aid comprehension may be possible) American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) invites faculty, graduate and advanced undergraduate students to participate in a 1-day workshop on “Best Practices of Working with […]
Public Talk on “Fishing and Farming: the role of aquatic resources in the spread of the Neolithic”
American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) Georgia Branch organizes a public talk on “Fishing and Farming: the role of aquatic resources in the spread of the Neolithic” By Kenneth Charles Ritchie, Moesgård Museum, ARISC Fellow Date: June 28, 18:00Venue: Tbilisi State University, II block, III floor, room #339Address: 3 Chavchavadze Ave., Tbilisi, Georgia […]
Public Talk On Assemblages Of Collapse: The Affective World Of Parajanov And The Fall Of The Soviet Empire
American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) Georgia Branch organizes a public talk on Assemblages of Collapse: The Affective World of Parajanov and the Fall of the Soviet Empire By Dr. Leah Feldman, University of Chicago, ARISC Fellow Date: June 25, 18:00 Venue: Ilia State University, room G106 Address: 1 G. Tsereteli St. Tbilisi, Georgia Leah […]
2-Day Workshop On Research Design And Research Methods In The Social Sciences
American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) invites early graduate and advanced undergraduate students to participate in a 2-day workshop on “Research Design and Research Methods in the Social Sciences” organized on May 17-18, 2019 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The workshop will be delivered by Eteri Tsintsadze-Maass, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Kentucky, and Richard Maass, […]
2-Day Workshop on Research Design and Research Methods in the Social Sciences
American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) invites early graduate and advanced undergraduate students to participate in a 2-day workshop on “Research Design and Research Methods in the Social Sciences” organized on May 17-18, 2019 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The workshop will be delivered by Eteri Tsintsadze-Maass, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Kentucky, and […]
Networking Calls
Networking Calls
ARISC is organizing teleconferenced networking sessions for scholars of the South Caucasus from around the world. These networking sessions are an informal way for scholars in all stages of their careers to meet and connect with one another on topics of mutual interest and have a chance to discuss issues relevant to their research. Sessions […]
USA
Teaching the South Caucasus: A Workshop for College and University Educators
June 18-21, 2019University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Preliminary Schedule The American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invite applications for a pedagogical workshop on integrating the South Caucasus into higher education classrooms. Often overlooked in Western education, the […]
The South Caucasus Region: Crossroads of Societies & Polities. An Assessment of Research Perspectives in Post-Soviet Times
Saturday, April 13, 20191.00 – 4.15pm17 Apache room Chairs: Alvaro Higueras, David Berikashvili and Isabelle Coupal Participants:1:00 Alvaro Higueras—Research and Heritage Management in the Southern Caucasus: Future Perspectives in Post-Soviet Scenarios 1:15 Ian Lindsay and Alan F. Greene—New Solutions to Old Challenges: Methods and Results from Project ArAGATS’ Kasakh Valley Archaeological Survey (KVAS) Project, Northwestern […]