The Armenian Studies Program web page is sponsored by a grant from
The Bertha and John Garabedian Charitable
Foundation, Fresno.
Prof. Barlow Der
Mugrdechian, Coordinator of the Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State, and
representing the Society for Armenian
Studies, participated in a an innovative
workshop, “The State of Armenian Studies,” at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, September
18-20, 2008.
Over the past forty years there have been
several opportunities for gatherings to discuss the state of Armenian Studies
and
prospects for the future. The Armenian Studies Program at the
The
That report will encompass
a quantitative as well as a qualitative analysis of the whole
array of
activities, from existing programs and their activities, books and articles
published in the last decades, programs and chairs
established, to gaps in
knowledge, relationship between current output and advances in the social
sciences and humanities in general,
and future needs.
To produce that report, the
Armenian Studies Program at the
Participating
in the first
meeting of the workshop were representatives of the National Academy of
Sciences (Prof. Ruben Safrastyan), Yerevan State
University (Prof. Albert
Stepanyan), the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
(Belmont, Mass., Marc Mamigonian), the
Society for Armenian Studies (US, Barlow
Der Mugrdechian), the Society for Armenian Studies (Europe, Seta Claire
Mouradian), the Armenian
Research Center, University of Michigan-Dearborn
(Prof. Ara Sanjian and Gerald Ottenbreit), and the Armenian Studies Program at
the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Professors Gerard Libaridian and Kevork
Bardakjian).
Prof. Gerard Libaridian,
Director of the Armenian
Studies Program at the