Directions in the Humanities

Project:

The project's goal is to explore various innovative programs and proposals for developing the Humanities in Armenia, and to network existing structures in Armenia with international centers of excellence in the Arts and the Humanities.

Task Forces

Philosophy and Public Policy - International Law and Human Rights - Media, Communication, and Journalism - Film & Music - Ecological Humanities - Textile Art & History - Languages and Translation

Task Force on

Ecological Humanities

Members

Marie-Aude Baronian

Professor, University of Amsterdam, Media Studies

Media

The Netherlands

Anna Barseghian

Artistic director, Utopiana

Architecture, Art

Switzerland

Talinn Grigor

Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis

Architectural History, Art History

California, USA

Nina Hovnanian

Hovnanian International

Art History

Armenia

Stefan Kristensen

Professor of Philosophy, University of Strasbourg, Faculty of Arts

Aesthetics, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

France

Armen Marsoobian

Southern Connecticut State University, University of Connecticut

Genocide Studies, Philosophy

Connecticut, USA

Marlyne Sahakian

Associate professor, Sociology department, University of Geneva

Consumption, Energy, Sustainability Studies

Switzerland

Task Force on

Film & Music

Members

Melissa Bilal

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Associate Director of the Armenian Music Program and Lecturer in Ethnomusicology; American University of Armenia, Gender Studies Minor Program, Core Team Member

Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, History, Music, Sociocultural Anthropology

California, USA; Turkey; Armenia

Ted Bogosian

Visiting Professor, Brown University

Visual Media and Messaging

Rhode Island, USA

Atom Egoyan

Oscar-nominated writer and director (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)

Film, Opera, Theatre, Writer

Ontario, Canada

Task Force on

International Law and Human Rights

Members

Core Team

Gassia Apkarian

Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Orange

Law

California, USA

Karnig Kerkonian

Kerkonian Dajani LLP

International Law, Law

Illinois, USA

Yeghishe Kirakosyan

Representative of the Republic of Armenia on International Legal Matters

International Law, Law

Armenia

Sergio La Porta

Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, California State University, Fresno

Armenian Studies

California, USA

Armen Marsoobian

Southern Connecticut State University, University of Connecticut

Genocide Studies, Philosophy

Connecticut, USA

Melanie Tanielian

Director of the Center for Armenian Studies, University of Michigan

History

Illinois, USA

Henry Theriault

Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Worcester State University

Genocide Studies, Philosophy

Massachusetts, USA

Advisors

Levon Gevorgyan

EY Senior Manager, Head of Law Practice for EY in Armenia

International Law, Law

Armenia

Christina Maranci

Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University

History, History of Art and Architecture, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Massachusetts, USA

Sarkis Shahinian

Secretary General of the Switzerland-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group

Architecture, Translation

Switzerland

Arman Tatoyan

Professor at the American University of Armenia

Human Rights

Armenia

Paul Tour-Sarkissian

Tour-Sarkissian Law Offices

Law

California, USA

Task Force on

Languages and Translation

Members

Christopher Atamian

Digital Marketing and Content Consultant

Digital Marketing and Communications, Film, Translation

New York, USA

Peter Balakian

Pulitzer prize winning poet

Genocide Studies, Literary Studies, Poetry

New York, USA

Armen Marsoobian

Southern Connecticut State University, University of Connecticut

Genocide Studies, Philosophy

Connecticut, USA

Task Force on

Media, Communication, and Journalism

Members

Nina Hovnanian

Hovnanian International

Art History

Armenia

Task Force on

Philosophy and Public Policy

Members

Maria Baghramian

Professor of Philosophy, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin

Philosophy

Dublin, Ireland

Paul Boghossian

Professor of Philosophy, New York University, Dir. of the Inst. of Philosophy and GIAS

Philosophy

New York, USA

James Der Derian

Director, Centre for International Security Studies

Film, Information technology, International security, Philosophy

Australia

Ned Markosian

Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Philosophy

Massachusetts, USA

Armen Marsoobian

Southern Connecticut State University, University of Connecticut

Genocide Studies, Philosophy

Connecticut, USA

Henry Theriault

Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Worcester State University

Genocide Studies, Philosophy

Massachusetts, USA

Task Force on

Textile Art & History

Members

Talinn Grigor

Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis

Architectural History, Art History

California, USA

Christina Maranci

Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University

History, History of Art and Architecture, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Massachusetts, USA

Gayane Shagoyan

Leading Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia

Cultural studies, Ethnology

Armenia

James Tufenkian

Tufenkian foundation

Leadership, Art, Entrepreneurship

Armenia

Heghnar Watenpaugh

Professor of Art History, University of California Davis

Art History, Gender, Jewish Studies

California, USA

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