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Public Lecture: Staying on Course in Stormy Times: Professor Cleveringa and the Rule of Law

308E, PAB Baghramyan 40, Yerevan, Armenia

About the Event: Join the public lecture hosted by the LL.M. program, featuring Professor Rick Lawson. On November 26, 1940, at a time when his country was under Nazi occupation, Dean Cleveringa spoke out against the occupiers’ order to dismiss Jewish professors from university. His courageous protest was an expression, not only of solidarity among […]

Designing for Impact

614M 40 Marshal Baghramyan Ave, Yerevan

About the Event: Tigran Tshorokhyan will discuss the work at the Armenia National SDG Innovation Lab, which aims to mainstream the culture of innovation and experimentation in policy-making for sustainable development. The SDG Innovation Lab is a joint initiative of the Government of Armenia and the United Nations, supported by the UNDP in Armenia. The […]

Autocracy vs. Democracy

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

About the Event: The presentation focuses on the essential principles composing autocratic civilizations and their usual association and even identity with theocratic legitimation. The variants of this civilization are extended to include aristocracy, divine right of kings, and monological “secularism.” While seemingly different from autocratic and theocratic civilizations, such secularism traces similar morphology with autocracy. […]