Vardanants Day Armenian Lecture Series
Sponsored by the Near East Section
The Vardanants Day Armenian Lecture series was created soon after Mrs.
Dadian's bequest (1991) to the Library for the health and maintenance
of the Armenian collections and the subsequent employment of a new Armenian
area specialist in 1993. The Near East Section planned the series to
highlight all aspects of Armenian life and culture and the role of the
Library of Congress' collections in the study of all things Armenian.
The series itself is named after the Armenian holiday that commemorates the
battle of Avarayr (AD 451) which was waged by the Armenian commander- in-
chief Vardan Mamikonian and his compatriots against Persian troops, which
had been sent by the King of Kings in an attempt to reimpose Zoroastrianism
on the Christian state. Although primarily a religious holiday, it also celebrates
as well Armenia's success in its millennia-long struggles against various
forces of assimilation.
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13th.: September 27, 2007
United States-Armenian Relations, 1991-2006:
A Conversation with Our
First Five Ambassadors
12th.: April 28, 2005
Edward Alexander, retired Foreign Service officer and author, delivered
the
Twelfth Annual Vardanants Day Armenian Lecture,
"Diplomacy
and the Armenian Factor."
11th.: May 21, 2003
Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D, NJ) Co-chair, Congressional Caucus
on Armenian Issues
" The
U.S. Congress and Armenia Today"
10th.: April 22, 2002
Michael C. Lemmon, Dean, School of Language Studies (FSI)
" Reflections
on Armenia's Place in the Region and in The World."
9th.: April 16, 2001
Sahan Arzruni
" The Sharakan: Crown Jewel of the Armenian Liturgy"
8th.: April 19, 2000
Ambassador Harry J. Gilmore (Retired)
" Twenty-Six Months in the Reborn
Republic of Armenia: My Mission as the First U.S. Ambassador to Armenia"
(Click here for text of lecture)
7th.: April 7, 1999
Professor Richard G. Hovannisian UCLA
" The First (1918-1921) and Present (1991-) Republics of Armenia:
Does History Repeat Itself?"
6th.: April 23, 1998
Professor Robert H. Hewsen Rowan University
" The Meliks of Karabagh:
An Armenian History"
5th.: June 3, 1997
The Very Reverend Father Krikor H. Maksoudian Director, Krikor and
Clara Zohrab Armenian Information Center New York, NY
" Religion in the Republic
of Armenia"
4th.: May 1, 1996
Professor Ronald G. Suny University of Chicago
" Nation-making, Nation-breaking,
and the End of Empire: A New Perspective on the Events of 1915"
3rd.: April 7, 1995
Dr. Nina G. Garsoïan Professor emerita, Columbia University
" Iranian
Elements in Early Armenian Christianity"
2nd: February 11, 1994
The Very Reverend Father Krikor H. Maksoudian Director,
Krikor and
Clara Zohrab Armenian Information Center New York, NY
" Religion in the Republic
of Armenia"
[NB: Lecture canceled after all government buildings were closed due
to a severe snow storm. Father Krikor's lecture became Vardanants Lecture
number 5]
1st: February 12, 1993
Professor Lucy Der Manuelian Tufts University
" Armenian Manuscripts, Monasteries
and Miracles in the Middle Ages"
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