In early April, Zohrab Center director Dr. Jesse Arlen will travel to the Boston area then Washington, DC to give the following three talks, at Harvard University, NAASR, and St. Mary Armenian Church. All of the talks are open to the public. The NAASR event is a hybrid event (see registration link below for online Zoom option).

“Heresy and Excommunication in Tenth-Century Armenia: Hierarchs, Abbots, Monks, and Tondrakites.”

Wednesday, April 8th, 4:30pm at Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Room 304, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Mashtots Chair of Armenian Studies, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Center for the Study of World Religions, and the Committee on Medieval Studies.

An Evening of Poetry with Dr. Jesse Arlen:
Tenny Arlen’s To Say with Passion: Why Am I Here?

Thursday, April 9th, 7:30pm at NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA.
Co-sponsored by the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) and The Belmont Public Library
Zoom Registration Link: https://bit.ly/4soKyhn
NAASR YouTube Channel Link: https://www.youtube.com/c/ArmenianStudies 

Creating Culture in Diaspora:
The Poetry of Tenny Arlen (1991–2015)

Sunday, April 12th, after Badarak at St. Mary Armenian Church, 4125 Fessenden St. NW, Washington, DC.