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Startups, Setbacks, and Solidarity: Lessons and Surprises from the Syrian-Armenian Experience

Akian Art Gallery, Paramaz Avedisian Building, American University of Armenia 40 Marshal Baghramyan Ave, Yerevan, Armenia

About the Event:   Since 2011, approximately 22,500 Syrian Armenians have arrived in the Republic of Armenia, around 12,000 of whom remain in the county today. Despite the relatively small size of this population, its symbolic, economic, and cultural importance is profound.  This seminar will address the following questions: How does the influx of Syrian […]

The Language Created in the Gulag

Room 133W, Paramaz Avedisian Building

About the Event:   The Soviet Gulag was an inseparable part of the Soviet state system. Based on the Marxian idea of man’s dialectical relationship with labor, Soviet Corrective Labor Camps (Gulag) was an institution exploiting the potentiality of work and man’s body. Official protocols and literary descriptions show us what life in the Gulag […]

The Language Created in the Gulag

Room 133W, Paramaz Avedisian Building

About the Event:   The Soviet Gulag was an inseparable part of the Soviet state system. Based on the Marxian idea of man’s dialectical relationship with labor, Soviet Corrective Labor Camps (Gulag) was an institution exploiting the potentiality of work and man’s body. Official protocols and literary descriptions show us what life in the Gulag […]