Johannissyan Seminars are monthly lecture series in the humanities delivered by invited local and international scholars who present their ongoing research in the humanities. The Seminars primarily aim at exposing broader audiences to pertinent research themes, problematics and methodologies as well as developing a platform for scholarly peer feedback for researchers. The Seminars also facilitate crucial exchange between scholars in Armenia and abroad and especially emphasize collaboration with the diaspora. By creating a platform for exchange, the main aims of the series are the formation of a culture of thinking through and within the humanistic disciplines in a rigorous and critical manner; the re-conception of the critical role of the humanities scholarship informed by international developments, one that is lacking in the institutions of higher learning, and the strengthening of the links between different generations of scholars while addressing problems of generational change.
The project is being realized with the financial support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation since 2021.
The presentations are held in Armenian.
Presentations
Siranush Dvoyan, “Labor as witt and falsification”
April 13, 2023
Angela Harutyunyan, “Contemporary art against Soviet modernity”
August 2, 2022
Gérard Malkhassian, “Zaven Biberian: An intellectual of a majoritarian society and of oppressed minority”
June 21, 2022
Hamlet Petrosyan, “How to be victorious: Secular figurative sculptures on the crosstones of Artsakh”
December 23, 2021
Nanor Kebranian, “Subjection to the Empire, and the Armenian-Turkish question”
October 22, 2021
Levon Abrahamyan, “Armenian nation-state, or family-state?”
June 30, 2021
Gerard Libaridian, “Mkrtich Khrimyan’s place in the history of our political thought”
May 30, 2021
Gerard Libaridian, “What was revolutionary about the revolutionary armenian parties of the Ottoman Empire?”
November 18, 2019
Krikor Beledian, “The French Armenian Novel and Zareh Vorbuni”
November 5, 2019
Vardan Azatyan, “”Who Is This Winckelmann?”: Aesthetic Antiquity And Modern Armenians”, part I
November 28, 2018
Vardan Azatyan, “”Who Is This Winckelmann?”: Aesthetic Antiquity And Modern Armenians”, part II
December 4, 2018
Stefan Kristensen, “Art And Politics: Introduction To Phenomenological Aesthetics”, part I
October 24, 2018
Stefan Kristensen, “Art And Politics: Introduction To Phenomenological Aesthetics”, part II
October 26, 2018