Columbia University Armenian Center

We are delighted to share that Dr. Nareg Seferian has been appointed the Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian Visiting Professor in Columbia University’s Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) for Spring 2026.

Dr. Seferian will be teaching “Geography as World-Writing” (MDES UN3345), a course that explores how space, power, borders, and geopolitical imagination shape the world, with some emphasis on Armenia and Azerbaijan and the conflict over Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Armenian Center is proud to support the Ordjanian Visiting Professorship, established in 1988 through the generosity of Dr. Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian, and honored over the years by distinguished scholars.

Thank you to everyone who joined us at Faculty House for the launch of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Peter Balakian’s New York Trilogy on October 27. It was a full house — an overflow audience filled the room — and the evening concluded with an engaging discussion and book signing following Balakian’s powerful reading.

Join us for a reading, discussion, and reception with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian.

Registration is required by Friday, October 24. To register, email Prof. Khatchig Mouradian at [email protected]

Kirill Gerstein’s Debussy/Komitas double album has just received the Special Award for Curatorial Achievement at Opus Klassik, Germany’s most prestigious classical music prize.

Already named one of The New Yorker’s Fifteen Notable Recordings of 2024 and a New York Times Best Classical Album of the Year, this project continues to garner international acclaim.

We’re proud that The Armenian Center supported this remarkable endeavor alongside the Wiener Konzerthaus, and that our own Prof. contributed one of the four chapters in the accompanying book—published in English, French, and German.

Congratulations to , and everyone involved in bringing Komitas to new global audiences!

It’s a wrap!

This semester, the Columbia University Armenian Center organized, co-sponsored, or supported at least one event per week. As the semester comes to a close, we extend our thanks to the departments, centers, organizations, and groups that partnered with us to make these events a success.

Special thanks to MESAAS, the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, the Harriman Institute, the Columbia University Armenian Society, the NYU Global Institute for Advanced Study, NAASR, and AMAA.

We are happy to have supported this wonderful project!
https://lincolncenter.org/series/lincoln-center-presents/komitas-and-friends-705

Join NYTimes best-selling author David Lipsky and historian for this discussion on the science of denial. (Registration link in bio)

The event is organized by the NYU Global Institute for Advanced Study and co-sponsored by the Columbia University Armenian Center.

Thank you all for participating in the Armenian Genocide commemoration event at Teachers College on April 24!

Join us on Monday, April 28, for this public reading and conversation!
(Registration link in bio.)

Join us at Teachers College on April 24!

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday for Nancy Kricorian’s book talk and conversation with Prof. Marianne Hirsch!

Join us on April 7 for a discussion featuring novelist Nancy Kricorian and Prof. Marianne Hirsch about Kricorian’s novel The Burning Heart of the World!