We warmly invite you to our next in-person event on Tuesday, March 4th at 7:00pm in Guild Hall of the Diocesan Center in New York. Lecturing on Armenian Martyrs in Text and Image will be St. Nersess Armenian Seminary professor Dr. Ani Shahinian.

Dr. Ani Shahinian is the Assistant Professor in Armenian Christian Art and Culture, holder of the Grace and Paul Shahinian Lectureship, at the St. Nersess Armenian Seminary and St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. She earned her doctorate in History and Theology at the University of Oxford. She holds an MA degree in Near Eastern and Languages and Cultures from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a diploma in Philosophy and Theology from the University of Oxford. She received her BA in Philosophy, Ethics, Public Policy, and Professional Writing from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Shahinian’s doctoral research addresses the question of Christian martyrdom in the context of political, economic, and ecclesiastical history in Late Medieval Armenia. More broadly, Shahinian’s research interests address questions of what it means to be human in a technological age, focusing on virtue-ethics and the freedom of the human will.