NEWS/EVENTS HIGHLIGHTS
“After the Ottomans: Genocide’s Long Shadow and Armenian Resilience,” with Seyhan Bayraktar and Khatchig Mouradian in conversation with Nanore Barsoumian at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). Sept. 26, 2023. (Event announcement and recording)
A panel discussion on “Creativity in Challenging Times” featuring journalist Liana Aghajanian, novelist Nancy Kricorian, and pianist Kariné Poghosyan, moderated by Nanore Barsoumian. March 26, 2022. (Announcement and coverage)
Workshop on “Difficult Conversations” at ArtLinks, a four-day arts retreat at a camp in Wrightwood, California, organized by the Hamazkayin Cultural and Educational Organization. June 29, 2017. (Event coverage here)
Keynote Speaker at Armenia’s Independence Day Celebration hosted by the Armenian Cultural and Educational Center in Watertown, MA. Sept. 2016.
“Giving Voice to Our Humanity,” remarks given at the 2016 Configuration of the Abstract Sculpture at the Armenian Heritage Park during Artweek Boston. May 2016.
Speaker at the Armenian Relief Society (ARS) Youth Connect Program on “Cultural Resistance and Informed Activism,” at New York University, March 2016. (Read the coverage)
Participant at the roundtable discussion in Istanbul, Turkey, on Armenian Genocide Reparations, organized by the French-Armenian NGO Repair Future and the Turkish NGO Anadolou Culture, which brought together 15 lawyers and civil society activists from Armenia, Turkey, and the Armenian Diaspora, June 2015.
“The Denial Industry in Turkey,” a conversation between Turkish human rights activist and director of Belge Publishing House Ragip Zarakolu and Nanore Barsoumian, public event organized by the Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Ramapo College, N.J., May 2015.
Speech delivered at the Armenian Genocide Commemoration in Ankara, Turkey. April 25, 2015. See “Barsoumian Delivers Speech in Ankara on April 25.” (Event coverage in Agos)
Chaired the “Women and Diaspora: From Past to Post-2015” panel at the United Nations, during the 59th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59), N.Y., March 2015.
“’Where Did All the Armenians Go?’” a talk delivered on a panel commemorating the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, entitled “What Happened on April 24, 1915?” organized by the Turkish-American Bostonbul group, at the Democracy Center, Cambridge, MA, April 2014.
“On the Legacy of Dink, a Dove, an Enemy of the State,” a speech delivered at a commemoration event marking the 7th anniversary of the assassination of Hrant Dink, editor of the Turkish Armenian newspaper Agos, held at St. James Armenian Apostolic Church in Watertown, MA, Jan. 2014.
“Online Space and the Politics of Information Exchange,” panelist at the “Independence and Beyond: In Search of a New Armenian Diaspora after 1991” Conference, at the University of Southern California, April 2013.