Tesaneliq: Animals <\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2025
\nISBN 978-9939-9329-0-3<\/p>\n
\u201cTesaneliq\u201d is a children’s book series aimed at developing children’s creative thinking and sensory understanding of the world through art. Art has the power to make the ordinary visible and remarkable. \u201cTesaneliq\u201d series aims to make seeing the world anew through the senses, primarily vision, our task. The first volume of \u201cTesaneliq\u201d is dedicated to animals, the integral participants of our daily lives. Humans have a complex relationship of similarity and difference with animals. Art provides an opportunity to develop a caring attitude toward the environment and each other through interaction with animals. The series is implemented with the initiative and financial support of Lilit Antonian-Konoplyova.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nThe Persecuted, vol 3<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nZareh Vorbuni
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2024
\nISBN 978-9939-9329-4-1<\/p>\n
The third volume of Zareh Vorbuni’s prose works includes the last four pieces from the Halatsuatsnery (The Persecuted) series: “Ev Eghev Mard” (1964), “Zi Qo e Karoghutyun” (1977), “Monic or Asphalt Erku” (1978), and “Jrhegheghen Araj” written between 1956 and 1980. The second section contains works published in various periodicals between the 1930s and 1970s: “Azatutiun Bantarkeal” (1937), “Mardun Morty ” (1940), “Halatsuatsnery” (excerpt from the novel of the same name), and “Francois” (1972). These are, except for the third, extracts from unfinished novels by Vorbuni. Outside these sections, two additional works are included in the volume: the novel “Mahazd” (1980), which is probably the author’s last completed work, and “Kensagrakan Shaghakratutyun m\u2019 Gurgen Maharii het” an autobiographical dialogue written by Vorbuni in the 1960s at Gurgen Mahari’s suggestion. The volume has been compiled and edited by Krikor Beledian, with Siranush Dvoyan serving as the general editor.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nLiberation and Revolution: Critical Essays on Modern Armenian History<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nGerard Libaridian
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2024
\nISBN 978-9939-9329-4-1<\/p>\n
Gerard Libaridian\u2019s Azatagrutyun ev Heghapokhutyun: Qnnakan Pordzer Ardi Hayots Patmutyan (Liberation and Revolution: Critical Essays on Modern Armenian History) summarizes the research and reflections of the diplomat-historian on key moments of modern Armenian history. The collected articles were written between the 1980s and the 2020s. The volume aims to critically understand the origins and nature of the political organizations underlying the modern Armenian diaspora and the Republic of Armenia, as well as their relationship with the Armenian Apostolic Church. Most of the articles in the book are in Eastern Armenian and have been translated from the original English. The publication of the volume was made possible through the generosity of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and individual donors<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nPostmodern Condition and Its Critics<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nCompiled, annotated, and written the epilogue by Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2023
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-8-9<\/p>\n
Within the framework of studying contemporary issues, Johannissyan Institute published the collection Hetardiakan Katsutyun\u2019 ev nra Qnnadtner<\/i><\/em>\u2019 (Postmodern Condition and Its Critics). The book was compiled and annotated by Vardan Azatyan, who is also the author of the concluding research of the volume.
\nThis selection from classical thinkers of modern Western philosophy summarizes debates among Western authors on the philosophical evaluation of the present and the current state of philosophical thought. The texts of Fredric Jameson and Richard Rorty reflect the influential analyses by J\u00fcrgen Habermas and Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard on the “postmodern condition.”
\nThis volume can be considered as a companion to the recently published book Hetardiakan Katsutyun\u2019<\/i><\/em> (Postmodern Condition) by Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard, within the framework of the “Calouste Gulbenkian Translation Series.”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u0540\u0565\u057f\u0561\u0580\u0564\u056b\u0561\u056f\u0561\u0576-\u056f\u0561\u0581\u0578\u0582\u0569\u0575\u0578\u0582\u0576-scaled.jpg\")
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\nAkeldama<\/a>, v. 2<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nVache Sargsyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2023
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-7<\/p>\n
The second volume of Soviet Armenian writer Vache Sargsyan\u2019s novel Akeldama<\/em>\u00a0entitled Permanent Freeze. Letters to Sonia Carol<\/i><\/em>\u00a0contains the author\u2019s previously unpublished novel which he wrote in 1966 upon his return from his sixteen-year long incarceration in the Gulag camps. The novel was revisited and completed in 1986. It continues the first novel\u2019s The Inimitable Story\u2019s<\/i><\/em>\u00a0hero Vazgen Darbinyan\u2019s journey through the camps, through which the customs of the exilic life reveal themselves with all their inner complexity. The volume has been supplemented with documents from family archives that in turn shed light upon hitherto unnoticed aspects of Stalinist policies. The volume has been compiled and edited by Siranush Dvoyan.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/\u0531\u056f\u0565\u0572\u0564\u0561\u0574\u0561_\u0570\u0561\u057f\u0578\u0580_2_final.png\")
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\nThe Persecuted<\/a>, v. 2<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nZareh Vorbuni
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2022
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-5-8<\/p>\n
The second volume of the critical edition of Zareh Vorbuni\u2019s works includes the novels An Ordinary Day <\/i><\/em>(1974) and the previously unpublished\u00a0Tigran<\/i><\/em>\u00a0(1973-1979)\u00a0<\/i><\/em>which are the fourth and the fifth novels of the series Persecuted<\/i><\/em>. Both novels depict the exilic experience in the Diaspora, and particularly in Paris and Marseille. The first presents a complete chain of a day-long and the second of six-day long events. With Tigran<\/i><\/em>, an essential turn takes place because of the main hero and due to the circumstances. Tigran, as the other protagonists of the first volume of the series, is persecuted by others. But he also persecutes himself. The volume is complimented with annotations which are based on unpublished archival materials, and which reveal the path in Vorbuni\u2019s work to achieving a completed manuscript and the creative difficulties on it. The volume was compiled and edited by Krikor Beledian. The general editor of the book is Siranush Dvoyan.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/\u0540\u0561\u056c\u0561\u056e\u0578\u0582\u0561\u056e\u0576\u0565\u0580\u0568-cover-for-web-2.jpg\")
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\nThe Persecuted<\/a>, v. 1<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nZareh Vorbuni
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2020
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-4-1<\/span><\/p>\nThe first volume of French Armenian writer Zareh Vorbuni\u2019s (Eoksuzian) three-volume publication contains the first three novels of Vorbuni\u2019s series The Experiment<\/em> (1929), The Candidate<\/em> (1967) and The Asphalt<\/em> (1972). In these novels the writer presents the experience of a generation that lived through the loss of home as well as the loss of the familiar surrounding as a possibility of opening up towards and experiencing what is foreign. Vorbuni is the first of those Diaspora writers who experience the Diaspora inwardly through literature as a tragedy of an irretrievable loss of home and homeland on the one hand, and as a possibility for intellectual subjectivization on the other hand. Thus, it is of no coincidence that the title of the series of novels carries \u2013 and the pen name of the author affirms \u2013 this very paradoxical experience of twentieth-century Armenian identity.<\/p>\nThe publication contains annotations that identify the bibliographical differences between the first publications of the novels, the original manuscript and the initial French translations. The volume includes Marc Nichanian\u2019s chapter on Zareh Vorbuni.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\nDavid the Philosopher<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nMissak Khostikian
\nCompiled and edited by Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2020
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-2-7<\/span><\/p>\nThe book contains the translation of theologian-philosopher Missak Khostikyan\u2019s doctoral thesis that Khostikyan defended in Bern in 1907. The dissertation is published alongside its German original and is supplemented with extensive annotations. The book also includes valuable documents that reveal the manifold of activities that Khostikyan was engaged with in Armenia as well as previously unpublished official documents and letters from his student years. The volume concludes with a critical addendum that contains Ashot Grigoryan\u2019s and Vardan Azatyan\u2019s studies. The book ends with a concise chronology of Khostikyan\u2019s life and works.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nAkeldama<\/a>, v. 1<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nVache Sargsyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2019
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-3-4<\/span><\/p>\nVache Sargsyan\u2019s novel\u00a0Akeldama<\/em>\u00a0is a monument of Soviet Armenian literature of exile that has thus far remained obscure. Written in a fictional form throughout the 1960s in the aftermath of the author\u2019s return from sixteen years of exile in the Gulags the novel presents Sargsyan\u2019s reminiscences of his exilic experience and his attempt to revisit the characters of his friends. \u00a0Sargsyan was arrested in 1941 when, still a youth, he had started teaching at the village school of Verin Talin. In the context of Khruschev\u2019s policies of destalinization he was acquitted and released in 1956. After his return from exile he continued his literary and public activities by participating in the liberation movements of his time. The first volume of the novel\u00a0The Inimitable Story\u00a0<\/em>is seeing publication for the first time and is accompanied with Siranush Dvoyan\u2019s critical evaluation of Vargsyan\u2019s life and literary legacy in the context of the literature of exile. The volume also includes documents related to the publication of the novel.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Akeldama.jpg\")
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\nWho Made the Revolution<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nVardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2019
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-1-0<\/p>\n
The small book published on the occasion of the first anniversary of the revolution in Armenia in April-May, 2018, presents the author\u2019s understanding of the event. It aims to think and conceive of the event on its own terms<\/em>. And since revolutions are essentially creative processes their adequate understanding cannot succeed without an imaginary thinking. Thus, the book does not present an analysis of the revolution. Rather it is a philosophical undertaking about the cultural forces capable of making a revolution in Armenia.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WhoMadetheRevolution_small.jpg\")
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\nThe City of Orphans: Relief Workers, Commissars and the \u201cBuilders of the New Armenia\u201d, Alexandropol\/Leninakan 1919-1931<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nNora N. Nercessian
\nPreliminary translation from English by Hasmik Harutyunyan
\nEditor Ruzanna Grigoryan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2018
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-0-3<\/p>\n
The book tells the story of the American orphanages located in the former Tsarist military barracks Kazachi, Seversky, and Polygon in Alexandropol (present day Gyumri) from 1919 to 1931. This exceptional work on the history of the orphanage, based on local and international, published and unpublished sources, articles, archival documents, reports, memoirs, photographs, tells the stories of tens of thousands of orphans and sheds light upon the historical and political events in the midst of which they were brought up and educated.\u00a0The City of Orphans<\/em>\u00a0provides a unique perspective for understanding the complex political nuances of the Dashnak, Soviet and US policies of the time.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/The-City-of-Orphans-e1532041961440.jpg\")
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\nInquiries into Photography<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nKarin Grigoryan, Vahe Budumyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, Actual Art, 2017
\nISBN 978-9939-816-99-9<\/p>\n
Inquiries Into Photography<\/em> is a sourcebook on photography. The authors Karin Grigoryan and Vahe Budumyan have years of experience in teaching and translating texts on photography into Armenian. The book has two interrelated parts, with the first articulating the main historical and theoretical questions in photography and the second dedicated to technique. The book concludes with a glossary of terms.<\/p>\nIt was published in collaboration with Actual Arvest Press.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\nIsrael Ori and the Armenian Liberation Idea<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nAshot Johannissyan
\nCompiled and edited by Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2016
\nISBN 978-9939-1-0315-0<\/p>\n
Israel Ori and the Armenian Liberation Idea is the first volume of Nerqin Grots Book<\/em> Series<\/a>. The volume presents the Armenian translation of historian and politician Ashot Johannissyan\u2019s PhD dissertation which he defended in Munich in 1913, along with its German original. The book is complimented with Johannissyan\u2019s working notes, as well as with extensive editorial notes which allow the reader to trace the development of the dissertation up until Johannissyan\u2019s double volume monograph Episodes in the History of Armenian Liberation Thought<\/em>. The book, in addition, contains the opinions of Johannissyan\u2019s German professors regarding their student\u2019s dissertation as well as Johannissyan\u2019s speech delivered later in 1955 on the occasion of the defense of his doctoral dissertation in Yerevan. The book concludes with Vardan Azatyan\u2019s study of Johannissyan\u2019s life and work.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IsraelOri.jpg\")
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\nImage, Narrative, History, v. 1<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nMarc Nichanian
\nYerevan: Actual Art, Johannissyan Institute, 2015
\nISBN 978-9939-816-84-5<\/p>\n
The double volume work by contemporary Diaspora Armenian philosopher Marc Nichanian entitled Image, Narrative, History<\/em> is a philosophical study dedicated to the three key problematics in contemporary thinking mentioned in the title. The book refers to the writings of the twentieth century Diaspora Armenian and French writers Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, Krikor Beledian, Zabel Yesayan, Shahan Shahnour and Zareh Vorbuni. The first volume is dedicated to the literary and philosophical works of Bataille and Blanchot which Nichanian considers from the perspective of the relationship between the survivor and the image.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/ImageNarrativeHistory1.jpg\")
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n\nImage, Narrative, History, v. 2<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nMarc Nichanian
\nYerevan: Actual Art, Johannissyan Institute, 2016
\nISBN 978-9939-816-96-8<\/p>\n
The second volume is dedicated to the works of four Western Armenian writers \u2013 Zabel Yesayan, Krikor Beledian, Shahan Shahnour and Zareh Vorbuni. Nichanian considers the latter from the perspective of the figure of the survivor, the problems this figure poses and the haunting presence of the image in them.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nBetween The Public Sphere and \u00d6ffentlichkeit<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nEditor Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Utopiana, Johannissyan Institute, 2014
\nISBN 978-9939-1-0128-6<\/p>\n
The volume Between The Public Sphere and \u00d6ffentlichkeit<\/em> is a product of collaboration between The Johannissyan Institute and Utopiana cultural-creative organization, within the framework of Spaces program. The volume is compiled and edited by Vardan Azatyan with an extensive introduction by the editor. The contributions in the volume provide paths to thinking the public by discussing the notion and its different manifestations. The volume could be considered as the continuation of the anthology Public Sphere: Between Contestation and Reconciliation<\/em> published in 2007 by the National Association of Art Critics (AICA Armenia) (Editor Vardan Azatyan).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/BetweenPublicSphere.jpg\")
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Yerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2025
\nISBN 978-9939-9329-0-3<\/p>\n
\u201cTesaneliq\u201d is a children’s book series aimed at developing children’s creative thinking and sensory understanding of the world through art. Art has the power to make the ordinary visible and remarkable. \u201cTesaneliq\u201d series aims to make seeing the world anew through the senses, primarily vision, our task. The first volume of \u201cTesaneliq\u201d is dedicated to animals, the integral participants of our daily lives. Humans have a complex relationship of similarity and difference with animals. Art provides an opportunity to develop a caring attitude toward the environment and each other through interaction with animals. The series is implemented with the initiative and financial support of Lilit Antonian-Konoplyova.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\nThe Persecuted, vol 3<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nZareh Vorbuni
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2024
\nISBN 978-9939-9329-4-1<\/p>\n
The third volume of Zareh Vorbuni’s prose works includes the last four pieces from the Halatsuatsnery (The Persecuted) series: “Ev Eghev Mard” (1964), “Zi Qo e Karoghutyun” (1977), “Monic or Asphalt Erku” (1978), and “Jrhegheghen Araj” written between 1956 and 1980. The second section contains works published in various periodicals between the 1930s and 1970s: “Azatutiun Bantarkeal” (1937), “Mardun Morty ” (1940), “Halatsuatsnery” (excerpt from the novel of the same name), and “Francois” (1972). These are, except for the third, extracts from unfinished novels by Vorbuni. Outside these sections, two additional works are included in the volume: the novel “Mahazd” (1980), which is probably the author’s last completed work, and “Kensagrakan Shaghakratutyun m\u2019 Gurgen Maharii het” an autobiographical dialogue written by Vorbuni in the 1960s at Gurgen Mahari’s suggestion. The volume has been compiled and edited by Krikor Beledian, with Siranush Dvoyan serving as the general editor.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nLiberation and Revolution: Critical Essays on Modern Armenian History<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nGerard Libaridian
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2024
\nISBN 978-9939-9329-4-1<\/p>\n
Gerard Libaridian\u2019s Azatagrutyun ev Heghapokhutyun: Qnnakan Pordzer Ardi Hayots Patmutyan (Liberation and Revolution: Critical Essays on Modern Armenian History) summarizes the research and reflections of the diplomat-historian on key moments of modern Armenian history. The collected articles were written between the 1980s and the 2020s. The volume aims to critically understand the origins and nature of the political organizations underlying the modern Armenian diaspora and the Republic of Armenia, as well as their relationship with the Armenian Apostolic Church. Most of the articles in the book are in Eastern Armenian and have been translated from the original English. The publication of the volume was made possible through the generosity of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and individual donors<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nPostmodern Condition and Its Critics<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nCompiled, annotated, and written the epilogue by Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2023
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-8-9<\/p>\n
Within the framework of studying contemporary issues, Johannissyan Institute published the collection Hetardiakan Katsutyun\u2019 ev nra Qnnadtner<\/i><\/em>\u2019 (Postmodern Condition and Its Critics). The book was compiled and annotated by Vardan Azatyan, who is also the author of the concluding research of the volume.
\nThis selection from classical thinkers of modern Western philosophy summarizes debates among Western authors on the philosophical evaluation of the present and the current state of philosophical thought. The texts of Fredric Jameson and Richard Rorty reflect the influential analyses by J\u00fcrgen Habermas and Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard on the “postmodern condition.”
\nThis volume can be considered as a companion to the recently published book Hetardiakan Katsutyun\u2019<\/i><\/em> (Postmodern Condition) by Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard, within the framework of the “Calouste Gulbenkian Translation Series.”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nAkeldama<\/a>, v. 2<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nVache Sargsyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2023
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-7<\/p>\n
The second volume of Soviet Armenian writer Vache Sargsyan\u2019s novel Akeldama<\/em>\u00a0entitled Permanent Freeze. Letters to Sonia Carol<\/i><\/em>\u00a0contains the author\u2019s previously unpublished novel which he wrote in 1966 upon his return from his sixteen-year long incarceration in the Gulag camps. The novel was revisited and completed in 1986. It continues the first novel\u2019s The Inimitable Story\u2019s<\/i><\/em>\u00a0hero Vazgen Darbinyan\u2019s journey through the camps, through which the customs of the exilic life reveal themselves with all their inner complexity. The volume has been supplemented with documents from family archives that in turn shed light upon hitherto unnoticed aspects of Stalinist policies. The volume has been compiled and edited by Siranush Dvoyan.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nThe Persecuted<\/a>, v. 2<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nZareh Vorbuni
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2022
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-5-8<\/p>\n
The second volume of the critical edition of Zareh Vorbuni\u2019s works includes the novels An Ordinary Day <\/i><\/em>(1974) and the previously unpublished\u00a0Tigran<\/i><\/em>\u00a0(1973-1979)\u00a0<\/i><\/em>which are the fourth and the fifth novels of the series Persecuted<\/i><\/em>. Both novels depict the exilic experience in the Diaspora, and particularly in Paris and Marseille. The first presents a complete chain of a day-long and the second of six-day long events. With Tigran<\/i><\/em>, an essential turn takes place because of the main hero and due to the circumstances. Tigran, as the other protagonists of the first volume of the series, is persecuted by others. But he also persecutes himself. The volume is complimented with annotations which are based on unpublished archival materials, and which reveal the path in Vorbuni\u2019s work to achieving a completed manuscript and the creative difficulties on it. The volume was compiled and edited by Krikor Beledian. The general editor of the book is Siranush Dvoyan.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nThe Persecuted<\/a>, v. 1<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nZareh Vorbuni
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2020
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-4-1<\/span><\/p>\nThe first volume of French Armenian writer Zareh Vorbuni\u2019s (Eoksuzian) three-volume publication contains the first three novels of Vorbuni\u2019s series The Experiment<\/em> (1929), The Candidate<\/em> (1967) and The Asphalt<\/em> (1972). In these novels the writer presents the experience of a generation that lived through the loss of home as well as the loss of the familiar surrounding as a possibility of opening up towards and experiencing what is foreign. Vorbuni is the first of those Diaspora writers who experience the Diaspora inwardly through literature as a tragedy of an irretrievable loss of home and homeland on the one hand, and as a possibility for intellectual subjectivization on the other hand. Thus, it is of no coincidence that the title of the series of novels carries \u2013 and the pen name of the author affirms \u2013 this very paradoxical experience of twentieth-century Armenian identity.<\/p>\nThe publication contains annotations that identify the bibliographical differences between the first publications of the novels, the original manuscript and the initial French translations. The volume includes Marc Nichanian\u2019s chapter on Zareh Vorbuni.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nDavid the Philosopher<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nMissak Khostikian
\nCompiled and edited by Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2020
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-2-7<\/span><\/p>\nThe book contains the translation of theologian-philosopher Missak Khostikyan\u2019s doctoral thesis that Khostikyan defended in Bern in 1907. The dissertation is published alongside its German original and is supplemented with extensive annotations. The book also includes valuable documents that reveal the manifold of activities that Khostikyan was engaged with in Armenia as well as previously unpublished official documents and letters from his student years. The volume concludes with a critical addendum that contains Ashot Grigoryan\u2019s and Vardan Azatyan\u2019s studies. The book ends with a concise chronology of Khostikyan\u2019s life and works.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nAkeldama<\/a>, v. 1<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nVache Sargsyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2019
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-3-4<\/span><\/p>\nVache Sargsyan\u2019s novel\u00a0Akeldama<\/em>\u00a0is a monument of Soviet Armenian literature of exile that has thus far remained obscure. Written in a fictional form throughout the 1960s in the aftermath of the author\u2019s return from sixteen years of exile in the Gulags the novel presents Sargsyan\u2019s reminiscences of his exilic experience and his attempt to revisit the characters of his friends. \u00a0Sargsyan was arrested in 1941 when, still a youth, he had started teaching at the village school of Verin Talin. In the context of Khruschev\u2019s policies of destalinization he was acquitted and released in 1956. After his return from exile he continued his literary and public activities by participating in the liberation movements of his time. The first volume of the novel\u00a0The Inimitable Story\u00a0<\/em>is seeing publication for the first time and is accompanied with Siranush Dvoyan\u2019s critical evaluation of Vargsyan\u2019s life and literary legacy in the context of the literature of exile. The volume also includes documents related to the publication of the novel.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nWho Made the Revolution<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nVardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2019
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-1-0<\/p>\n
The small book published on the occasion of the first anniversary of the revolution in Armenia in April-May, 2018, presents the author\u2019s understanding of the event. It aims to think and conceive of the event on its own terms<\/em>. And since revolutions are essentially creative processes their adequate understanding cannot succeed without an imaginary thinking. Thus, the book does not present an analysis of the revolution. Rather it is a philosophical undertaking about the cultural forces capable of making a revolution in Armenia.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nThe City of Orphans: Relief Workers, Commissars and the \u201cBuilders of the New Armenia\u201d, Alexandropol\/Leninakan 1919-1931<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nNora N. Nercessian
\nPreliminary translation from English by Hasmik Harutyunyan
\nEditor Ruzanna Grigoryan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2018
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-0-3<\/p>\n
The book tells the story of the American orphanages located in the former Tsarist military barracks Kazachi, Seversky, and Polygon in Alexandropol (present day Gyumri) from 1919 to 1931. This exceptional work on the history of the orphanage, based on local and international, published and unpublished sources, articles, archival documents, reports, memoirs, photographs, tells the stories of tens of thousands of orphans and sheds light upon the historical and political events in the midst of which they were brought up and educated.\u00a0The City of Orphans<\/em>\u00a0provides a unique perspective for understanding the complex political nuances of the Dashnak, Soviet and US policies of the time.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nInquiries into Photography<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nKarin Grigoryan, Vahe Budumyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, Actual Art, 2017
\nISBN 978-9939-816-99-9<\/p>\n
Inquiries Into Photography<\/em> is a sourcebook on photography. The authors Karin Grigoryan and Vahe Budumyan have years of experience in teaching and translating texts on photography into Armenian. The book has two interrelated parts, with the first articulating the main historical and theoretical questions in photography and the second dedicated to technique. The book concludes with a glossary of terms.<\/p>\nIt was published in collaboration with Actual Arvest Press.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nIsrael Ori and the Armenian Liberation Idea<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nAshot Johannissyan
\nCompiled and edited by Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2016
\nISBN 978-9939-1-0315-0<\/p>\n
Israel Ori and the Armenian Liberation Idea is the first volume of Nerqin Grots Book<\/em> Series<\/a>. The volume presents the Armenian translation of historian and politician Ashot Johannissyan\u2019s PhD dissertation which he defended in Munich in 1913, along with its German original. The book is complimented with Johannissyan\u2019s working notes, as well as with extensive editorial notes which allow the reader to trace the development of the dissertation up until Johannissyan\u2019s double volume monograph Episodes in the History of Armenian Liberation Thought<\/em>. The book, in addition, contains the opinions of Johannissyan\u2019s German professors regarding their student\u2019s dissertation as well as Johannissyan\u2019s speech delivered later in 1955 on the occasion of the defense of his doctoral dissertation in Yerevan. The book concludes with Vardan Azatyan\u2019s study of Johannissyan\u2019s life and work.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nImage, Narrative, History, v. 1<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nMarc Nichanian
\nYerevan: Actual Art, Johannissyan Institute, 2015
\nISBN 978-9939-816-84-5<\/p>\n
The double volume work by contemporary Diaspora Armenian philosopher Marc Nichanian entitled Image, Narrative, History<\/em> is a philosophical study dedicated to the three key problematics in contemporary thinking mentioned in the title. The book refers to the writings of the twentieth century Diaspora Armenian and French writers Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, Krikor Beledian, Zabel Yesayan, Shahan Shahnour and Zareh Vorbuni. The first volume is dedicated to the literary and philosophical works of Bataille and Blanchot which Nichanian considers from the perspective of the relationship between the survivor and the image.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nImage, Narrative, History, v. 2<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nMarc Nichanian
\nYerevan: Actual Art, Johannissyan Institute, 2016
\nISBN 978-9939-816-96-8<\/p>\n
The second volume is dedicated to the works of four Western Armenian writers \u2013 Zabel Yesayan, Krikor Beledian, Shahan Shahnour and Zareh Vorbuni. Nichanian considers the latter from the perspective of the figure of the survivor, the problems this figure poses and the haunting presence of the image in them.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nBetween The Public Sphere and \u00d6ffentlichkeit<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nEditor Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Utopiana, Johannissyan Institute, 2014
\nISBN 978-9939-1-0128-6<\/p>\n
The volume Between The Public Sphere and \u00d6ffentlichkeit<\/em> is a product of collaboration between The Johannissyan Institute and Utopiana cultural-creative organization, within the framework of Spaces program. The volume is compiled and edited by Vardan Azatyan with an extensive introduction by the editor. The contributions in the volume provide paths to thinking the public by discussing the notion and its different manifestations. The volume could be considered as the continuation of the anthology Public Sphere: Between Contestation and Reconciliation<\/em> published in 2007 by the National Association of Art Critics (AICA Armenia) (Editor Vardan Azatyan).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tesaneliq: Animals \u00a0 Yerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2025 ISBN 978-9939-9329-0-3 \u201cTesaneliq\u201d is a children’s book series aimed at developing children’s creative thinking and sensory understanding of the world through art. Art has the power to make the ordinary visible and remarkable. \u201cTesaneliq\u201d series aims …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-615","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":77,"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4403,"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Zareh Vorbuni
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2024
\nISBN 978-9939-9329-4-1<\/p>\n
The third volume of Zareh Vorbuni’s prose works includes the last four pieces from the Halatsuatsnery (The Persecuted) series: “Ev Eghev Mard” (1964), “Zi Qo e Karoghutyun” (1977), “Monic or Asphalt Erku” (1978), and “Jrhegheghen Araj” written between 1956 and 1980. The second section contains works published in various periodicals between the 1930s and 1970s: “Azatutiun Bantarkeal” (1937), “Mardun Morty ” (1940), “Halatsuatsnery” (excerpt from the novel of the same name), and “Francois” (1972). These are, except for the third, extracts from unfinished novels by Vorbuni. Outside these sections, two additional works are included in the volume: the novel “Mahazd” (1980), which is probably the author’s last completed work, and “Kensagrakan Shaghakratutyun m\u2019 Gurgen Maharii het” an autobiographical dialogue written by Vorbuni in the 1960s at Gurgen Mahari’s suggestion. The volume has been compiled and edited by Krikor Beledian, with Siranush Dvoyan serving as the general editor.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\nLiberation and Revolution: Critical Essays on Modern Armenian History<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nGerard Libaridian
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2024
\nISBN 978-9939-9329-4-1<\/p>\n
Gerard Libaridian\u2019s Azatagrutyun ev Heghapokhutyun: Qnnakan Pordzer Ardi Hayots Patmutyan (Liberation and Revolution: Critical Essays on Modern Armenian History) summarizes the research and reflections of the diplomat-historian on key moments of modern Armenian history. The collected articles were written between the 1980s and the 2020s. The volume aims to critically understand the origins and nature of the political organizations underlying the modern Armenian diaspora and the Republic of Armenia, as well as their relationship with the Armenian Apostolic Church. Most of the articles in the book are in Eastern Armenian and have been translated from the original English. The publication of the volume was made possible through the generosity of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and individual donors<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nPostmodern Condition and Its Critics<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nCompiled, annotated, and written the epilogue by Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2023
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-8-9<\/p>\n
Within the framework of studying contemporary issues, Johannissyan Institute published the collection Hetardiakan Katsutyun\u2019 ev nra Qnnadtner<\/i><\/em>\u2019 (Postmodern Condition and Its Critics). The book was compiled and annotated by Vardan Azatyan, who is also the author of the concluding research of the volume.
\nThis selection from classical thinkers of modern Western philosophy summarizes debates among Western authors on the philosophical evaluation of the present and the current state of philosophical thought. The texts of Fredric Jameson and Richard Rorty reflect the influential analyses by J\u00fcrgen Habermas and Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard on the “postmodern condition.”
\nThis volume can be considered as a companion to the recently published book Hetardiakan Katsutyun\u2019<\/i><\/em> (Postmodern Condition) by Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard, within the framework of the “Calouste Gulbenkian Translation Series.”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nAkeldama<\/a>, v. 2<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nVache Sargsyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2023
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-7<\/p>\n
The second volume of Soviet Armenian writer Vache Sargsyan\u2019s novel Akeldama<\/em>\u00a0entitled Permanent Freeze. Letters to Sonia Carol<\/i><\/em>\u00a0contains the author\u2019s previously unpublished novel which he wrote in 1966 upon his return from his sixteen-year long incarceration in the Gulag camps. The novel was revisited and completed in 1986. It continues the first novel\u2019s The Inimitable Story\u2019s<\/i><\/em>\u00a0hero Vazgen Darbinyan\u2019s journey through the camps, through which the customs of the exilic life reveal themselves with all their inner complexity. The volume has been supplemented with documents from family archives that in turn shed light upon hitherto unnoticed aspects of Stalinist policies. The volume has been compiled and edited by Siranush Dvoyan.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nThe Persecuted<\/a>, v. 2<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nZareh Vorbuni
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2022
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-5-8<\/p>\n
The second volume of the critical edition of Zareh Vorbuni\u2019s works includes the novels An Ordinary Day <\/i><\/em>(1974) and the previously unpublished\u00a0Tigran<\/i><\/em>\u00a0(1973-1979)\u00a0<\/i><\/em>which are the fourth and the fifth novels of the series Persecuted<\/i><\/em>. Both novels depict the exilic experience in the Diaspora, and particularly in Paris and Marseille. The first presents a complete chain of a day-long and the second of six-day long events. With Tigran<\/i><\/em>, an essential turn takes place because of the main hero and due to the circumstances. Tigran, as the other protagonists of the first volume of the series, is persecuted by others. But he also persecutes himself. The volume is complimented with annotations which are based on unpublished archival materials, and which reveal the path in Vorbuni\u2019s work to achieving a completed manuscript and the creative difficulties on it. The volume was compiled and edited by Krikor Beledian. The general editor of the book is Siranush Dvoyan.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nThe Persecuted<\/a>, v. 1<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nZareh Vorbuni
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2020
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-4-1<\/span><\/p>\nThe first volume of French Armenian writer Zareh Vorbuni\u2019s (Eoksuzian) three-volume publication contains the first three novels of Vorbuni\u2019s series The Experiment<\/em> (1929), The Candidate<\/em> (1967) and The Asphalt<\/em> (1972). In these novels the writer presents the experience of a generation that lived through the loss of home as well as the loss of the familiar surrounding as a possibility of opening up towards and experiencing what is foreign. Vorbuni is the first of those Diaspora writers who experience the Diaspora inwardly through literature as a tragedy of an irretrievable loss of home and homeland on the one hand, and as a possibility for intellectual subjectivization on the other hand. Thus, it is of no coincidence that the title of the series of novels carries \u2013 and the pen name of the author affirms \u2013 this very paradoxical experience of twentieth-century Armenian identity.<\/p>\nThe publication contains annotations that identify the bibliographical differences between the first publications of the novels, the original manuscript and the initial French translations. The volume includes Marc Nichanian\u2019s chapter on Zareh Vorbuni.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nDavid the Philosopher<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nMissak Khostikian
\nCompiled and edited by Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2020
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-2-7<\/span><\/p>\nThe book contains the translation of theologian-philosopher Missak Khostikyan\u2019s doctoral thesis that Khostikyan defended in Bern in 1907. The dissertation is published alongside its German original and is supplemented with extensive annotations. The book also includes valuable documents that reveal the manifold of activities that Khostikyan was engaged with in Armenia as well as previously unpublished official documents and letters from his student years. The volume concludes with a critical addendum that contains Ashot Grigoryan\u2019s and Vardan Azatyan\u2019s studies. The book ends with a concise chronology of Khostikyan\u2019s life and works.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nAkeldama<\/a>, v. 1<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nVache Sargsyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2019
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-3-4<\/span><\/p>\nVache Sargsyan\u2019s novel\u00a0Akeldama<\/em>\u00a0is a monument of Soviet Armenian literature of exile that has thus far remained obscure. Written in a fictional form throughout the 1960s in the aftermath of the author\u2019s return from sixteen years of exile in the Gulags the novel presents Sargsyan\u2019s reminiscences of his exilic experience and his attempt to revisit the characters of his friends. \u00a0Sargsyan was arrested in 1941 when, still a youth, he had started teaching at the village school of Verin Talin. In the context of Khruschev\u2019s policies of destalinization he was acquitted and released in 1956. After his return from exile he continued his literary and public activities by participating in the liberation movements of his time. The first volume of the novel\u00a0The Inimitable Story\u00a0<\/em>is seeing publication for the first time and is accompanied with Siranush Dvoyan\u2019s critical evaluation of Vargsyan\u2019s life and literary legacy in the context of the literature of exile. The volume also includes documents related to the publication of the novel.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nWho Made the Revolution<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nVardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2019
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-1-0<\/p>\n
The small book published on the occasion of the first anniversary of the revolution in Armenia in April-May, 2018, presents the author\u2019s understanding of the event. It aims to think and conceive of the event on its own terms<\/em>. And since revolutions are essentially creative processes their adequate understanding cannot succeed without an imaginary thinking. Thus, the book does not present an analysis of the revolution. Rather it is a philosophical undertaking about the cultural forces capable of making a revolution in Armenia.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nThe City of Orphans: Relief Workers, Commissars and the \u201cBuilders of the New Armenia\u201d, Alexandropol\/Leninakan 1919-1931<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nNora N. Nercessian
\nPreliminary translation from English by Hasmik Harutyunyan
\nEditor Ruzanna Grigoryan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2018
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-0-3<\/p>\n
The book tells the story of the American orphanages located in the former Tsarist military barracks Kazachi, Seversky, and Polygon in Alexandropol (present day Gyumri) from 1919 to 1931. This exceptional work on the history of the orphanage, based on local and international, published and unpublished sources, articles, archival documents, reports, memoirs, photographs, tells the stories of tens of thousands of orphans and sheds light upon the historical and political events in the midst of which they were brought up and educated.\u00a0The City of Orphans<\/em>\u00a0provides a unique perspective for understanding the complex political nuances of the Dashnak, Soviet and US policies of the time.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nInquiries into Photography<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nKarin Grigoryan, Vahe Budumyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, Actual Art, 2017
\nISBN 978-9939-816-99-9<\/p>\n
Inquiries Into Photography<\/em> is a sourcebook on photography. The authors Karin Grigoryan and Vahe Budumyan have years of experience in teaching and translating texts on photography into Armenian. The book has two interrelated parts, with the first articulating the main historical and theoretical questions in photography and the second dedicated to technique. The book concludes with a glossary of terms.<\/p>\nIt was published in collaboration with Actual Arvest Press.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nIsrael Ori and the Armenian Liberation Idea<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nAshot Johannissyan
\nCompiled and edited by Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2016
\nISBN 978-9939-1-0315-0<\/p>\n
Israel Ori and the Armenian Liberation Idea is the first volume of Nerqin Grots Book<\/em> Series<\/a>. The volume presents the Armenian translation of historian and politician Ashot Johannissyan\u2019s PhD dissertation which he defended in Munich in 1913, along with its German original. The book is complimented with Johannissyan\u2019s working notes, as well as with extensive editorial notes which allow the reader to trace the development of the dissertation up until Johannissyan\u2019s double volume monograph Episodes in the History of Armenian Liberation Thought<\/em>. The book, in addition, contains the opinions of Johannissyan\u2019s German professors regarding their student\u2019s dissertation as well as Johannissyan\u2019s speech delivered later in 1955 on the occasion of the defense of his doctoral dissertation in Yerevan. The book concludes with Vardan Azatyan\u2019s study of Johannissyan\u2019s life and work.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nImage, Narrative, History, v. 1<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nMarc Nichanian
\nYerevan: Actual Art, Johannissyan Institute, 2015
\nISBN 978-9939-816-84-5<\/p>\n
The double volume work by contemporary Diaspora Armenian philosopher Marc Nichanian entitled Image, Narrative, History<\/em> is a philosophical study dedicated to the three key problematics in contemporary thinking mentioned in the title. The book refers to the writings of the twentieth century Diaspora Armenian and French writers Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, Krikor Beledian, Zabel Yesayan, Shahan Shahnour and Zareh Vorbuni. The first volume is dedicated to the literary and philosophical works of Bataille and Blanchot which Nichanian considers from the perspective of the relationship between the survivor and the image.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nImage, Narrative, History, v. 2<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nMarc Nichanian
\nYerevan: Actual Art, Johannissyan Institute, 2016
\nISBN 978-9939-816-96-8<\/p>\n
The second volume is dedicated to the works of four Western Armenian writers \u2013 Zabel Yesayan, Krikor Beledian, Shahan Shahnour and Zareh Vorbuni. Nichanian considers the latter from the perspective of the figure of the survivor, the problems this figure poses and the haunting presence of the image in them.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nBetween The Public Sphere and \u00d6ffentlichkeit<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nEditor Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Utopiana, Johannissyan Institute, 2014
\nISBN 978-9939-1-0128-6<\/p>\n
The volume Between The Public Sphere and \u00d6ffentlichkeit<\/em> is a product of collaboration between The Johannissyan Institute and Utopiana cultural-creative organization, within the framework of Spaces program. The volume is compiled and edited by Vardan Azatyan with an extensive introduction by the editor. The contributions in the volume provide paths to thinking the public by discussing the notion and its different manifestations. The volume could be considered as the continuation of the anthology Public Sphere: Between Contestation and Reconciliation<\/em> published in 2007 by the National Association of Art Critics (AICA Armenia) (Editor Vardan Azatyan).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tesaneliq: Animals \u00a0 Yerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2025 ISBN 978-9939-9329-0-3 \u201cTesaneliq\u201d is a children’s book series aimed at developing children’s creative thinking and sensory understanding of the world through art. Art has the power to make the ordinary visible and remarkable. \u201cTesaneliq\u201d series aims …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-615","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":77,"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4403,"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Gerard Libaridian
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2024
\nISBN 978-9939-9329-4-1<\/p>\n
Gerard Libaridian\u2019s Azatagrutyun ev Heghapokhutyun: Qnnakan Pordzer Ardi Hayots Patmutyan (Liberation and Revolution: Critical Essays on Modern Armenian History) summarizes the research and reflections of the diplomat-historian on key moments of modern Armenian history. The collected articles were written between the 1980s and the 2020s. The volume aims to critically understand the origins and nature of the political organizations underlying the modern Armenian diaspora and the Republic of Armenia, as well as their relationship with the Armenian Apostolic Church. Most of the articles in the book are in Eastern Armenian and have been translated from the original English. The publication of the volume was made possible through the generosity of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and individual donors<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\nPostmodern Condition and Its Critics<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nCompiled, annotated, and written the epilogue by Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2023
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-8-9<\/p>\n
Within the framework of studying contemporary issues, Johannissyan Institute published the collection Hetardiakan Katsutyun\u2019 ev nra Qnnadtner<\/i><\/em>\u2019 (Postmodern Condition and Its Critics). The book was compiled and annotated by Vardan Azatyan, who is also the author of the concluding research of the volume.
\nThis selection from classical thinkers of modern Western philosophy summarizes debates among Western authors on the philosophical evaluation of the present and the current state of philosophical thought. The texts of Fredric Jameson and Richard Rorty reflect the influential analyses by J\u00fcrgen Habermas and Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard on the “postmodern condition.”
\nThis volume can be considered as a companion to the recently published book Hetardiakan Katsutyun\u2019<\/i><\/em> (Postmodern Condition) by Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard, within the framework of the “Calouste Gulbenkian Translation Series.”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nAkeldama<\/a>, v. 2<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nVache Sargsyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2023
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-7<\/p>\n
The second volume of Soviet Armenian writer Vache Sargsyan\u2019s novel Akeldama<\/em>\u00a0entitled Permanent Freeze. Letters to Sonia Carol<\/i><\/em>\u00a0contains the author\u2019s previously unpublished novel which he wrote in 1966 upon his return from his sixteen-year long incarceration in the Gulag camps. The novel was revisited and completed in 1986. It continues the first novel\u2019s The Inimitable Story\u2019s<\/i><\/em>\u00a0hero Vazgen Darbinyan\u2019s journey through the camps, through which the customs of the exilic life reveal themselves with all their inner complexity. The volume has been supplemented with documents from family archives that in turn shed light upon hitherto unnoticed aspects of Stalinist policies. The volume has been compiled and edited by Siranush Dvoyan.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nThe Persecuted<\/a>, v. 2<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nZareh Vorbuni
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2022
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-5-8<\/p>\n
The second volume of the critical edition of Zareh Vorbuni\u2019s works includes the novels An Ordinary Day <\/i><\/em>(1974) and the previously unpublished\u00a0Tigran<\/i><\/em>\u00a0(1973-1979)\u00a0<\/i><\/em>which are the fourth and the fifth novels of the series Persecuted<\/i><\/em>. Both novels depict the exilic experience in the Diaspora, and particularly in Paris and Marseille. The first presents a complete chain of a day-long and the second of six-day long events. With Tigran<\/i><\/em>, an essential turn takes place because of the main hero and due to the circumstances. Tigran, as the other protagonists of the first volume of the series, is persecuted by others. But he also persecutes himself. The volume is complimented with annotations which are based on unpublished archival materials, and which reveal the path in Vorbuni\u2019s work to achieving a completed manuscript and the creative difficulties on it. The volume was compiled and edited by Krikor Beledian. The general editor of the book is Siranush Dvoyan.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nThe Persecuted<\/a>, v. 1<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nZareh Vorbuni
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2020
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-4-1<\/span><\/p>\nThe first volume of French Armenian writer Zareh Vorbuni\u2019s (Eoksuzian) three-volume publication contains the first three novels of Vorbuni\u2019s series The Experiment<\/em> (1929), The Candidate<\/em> (1967) and The Asphalt<\/em> (1972). In these novels the writer presents the experience of a generation that lived through the loss of home as well as the loss of the familiar surrounding as a possibility of opening up towards and experiencing what is foreign. Vorbuni is the first of those Diaspora writers who experience the Diaspora inwardly through literature as a tragedy of an irretrievable loss of home and homeland on the one hand, and as a possibility for intellectual subjectivization on the other hand. Thus, it is of no coincidence that the title of the series of novels carries \u2013 and the pen name of the author affirms \u2013 this very paradoxical experience of twentieth-century Armenian identity.<\/p>\nThe publication contains annotations that identify the bibliographical differences between the first publications of the novels, the original manuscript and the initial French translations. The volume includes Marc Nichanian\u2019s chapter on Zareh Vorbuni.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nDavid the Philosopher<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nMissak Khostikian
\nCompiled and edited by Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2020
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-2-7<\/span><\/p>\nThe book contains the translation of theologian-philosopher Missak Khostikyan\u2019s doctoral thesis that Khostikyan defended in Bern in 1907. The dissertation is published alongside its German original and is supplemented with extensive annotations. The book also includes valuable documents that reveal the manifold of activities that Khostikyan was engaged with in Armenia as well as previously unpublished official documents and letters from his student years. The volume concludes with a critical addendum that contains Ashot Grigoryan\u2019s and Vardan Azatyan\u2019s studies. The book ends with a concise chronology of Khostikyan\u2019s life and works.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nAkeldama<\/a>, v. 1<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nVache Sargsyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2019
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-3-4<\/span><\/p>\nVache Sargsyan\u2019s novel\u00a0Akeldama<\/em>\u00a0is a monument of Soviet Armenian literature of exile that has thus far remained obscure. Written in a fictional form throughout the 1960s in the aftermath of the author\u2019s return from sixteen years of exile in the Gulags the novel presents Sargsyan\u2019s reminiscences of his exilic experience and his attempt to revisit the characters of his friends. \u00a0Sargsyan was arrested in 1941 when, still a youth, he had started teaching at the village school of Verin Talin. In the context of Khruschev\u2019s policies of destalinization he was acquitted and released in 1956. After his return from exile he continued his literary and public activities by participating in the liberation movements of his time. The first volume of the novel\u00a0The Inimitable Story\u00a0<\/em>is seeing publication for the first time and is accompanied with Siranush Dvoyan\u2019s critical evaluation of Vargsyan\u2019s life and literary legacy in the context of the literature of exile. The volume also includes documents related to the publication of the novel.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nWho Made the Revolution<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nVardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2019
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-1-0<\/p>\n
The small book published on the occasion of the first anniversary of the revolution in Armenia in April-May, 2018, presents the author\u2019s understanding of the event. It aims to think and conceive of the event on its own terms<\/em>. And since revolutions are essentially creative processes their adequate understanding cannot succeed without an imaginary thinking. Thus, the book does not present an analysis of the revolution. Rather it is a philosophical undertaking about the cultural forces capable of making a revolution in Armenia.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nThe City of Orphans: Relief Workers, Commissars and the \u201cBuilders of the New Armenia\u201d, Alexandropol\/Leninakan 1919-1931<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nNora N. Nercessian
\nPreliminary translation from English by Hasmik Harutyunyan
\nEditor Ruzanna Grigoryan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2018
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-0-3<\/p>\n
The book tells the story of the American orphanages located in the former Tsarist military barracks Kazachi, Seversky, and Polygon in Alexandropol (present day Gyumri) from 1919 to 1931. This exceptional work on the history of the orphanage, based on local and international, published and unpublished sources, articles, archival documents, reports, memoirs, photographs, tells the stories of tens of thousands of orphans and sheds light upon the historical and political events in the midst of which they were brought up and educated.\u00a0The City of Orphans<\/em>\u00a0provides a unique perspective for understanding the complex political nuances of the Dashnak, Soviet and US policies of the time.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nInquiries into Photography<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nKarin Grigoryan, Vahe Budumyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, Actual Art, 2017
\nISBN 978-9939-816-99-9<\/p>\n
Inquiries Into Photography<\/em> is a sourcebook on photography. The authors Karin Grigoryan and Vahe Budumyan have years of experience in teaching and translating texts on photography into Armenian. The book has two interrelated parts, with the first articulating the main historical and theoretical questions in photography and the second dedicated to technique. The book concludes with a glossary of terms.<\/p>\nIt was published in collaboration with Actual Arvest Press.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nIsrael Ori and the Armenian Liberation Idea<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nAshot Johannissyan
\nCompiled and edited by Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2016
\nISBN 978-9939-1-0315-0<\/p>\n
Israel Ori and the Armenian Liberation Idea is the first volume of Nerqin Grots Book<\/em> Series<\/a>. The volume presents the Armenian translation of historian and politician Ashot Johannissyan\u2019s PhD dissertation which he defended in Munich in 1913, along with its German original. The book is complimented with Johannissyan\u2019s working notes, as well as with extensive editorial notes which allow the reader to trace the development of the dissertation up until Johannissyan\u2019s double volume monograph Episodes in the History of Armenian Liberation Thought<\/em>. The book, in addition, contains the opinions of Johannissyan\u2019s German professors regarding their student\u2019s dissertation as well as Johannissyan\u2019s speech delivered later in 1955 on the occasion of the defense of his doctoral dissertation in Yerevan. The book concludes with Vardan Azatyan\u2019s study of Johannissyan\u2019s life and work.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nImage, Narrative, History, v. 1<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nMarc Nichanian
\nYerevan: Actual Art, Johannissyan Institute, 2015
\nISBN 978-9939-816-84-5<\/p>\n
The double volume work by contemporary Diaspora Armenian philosopher Marc Nichanian entitled Image, Narrative, History<\/em> is a philosophical study dedicated to the three key problematics in contemporary thinking mentioned in the title. The book refers to the writings of the twentieth century Diaspora Armenian and French writers Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, Krikor Beledian, Zabel Yesayan, Shahan Shahnour and Zareh Vorbuni. The first volume is dedicated to the literary and philosophical works of Bataille and Blanchot which Nichanian considers from the perspective of the relationship between the survivor and the image.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nImage, Narrative, History, v. 2<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nMarc Nichanian
\nYerevan: Actual Art, Johannissyan Institute, 2016
\nISBN 978-9939-816-96-8<\/p>\n
The second volume is dedicated to the works of four Western Armenian writers \u2013 Zabel Yesayan, Krikor Beledian, Shahan Shahnour and Zareh Vorbuni. Nichanian considers the latter from the perspective of the figure of the survivor, the problems this figure poses and the haunting presence of the image in them.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nBetween The Public Sphere and \u00d6ffentlichkeit<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\nEditor Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Utopiana, Johannissyan Institute, 2014
\nISBN 978-9939-1-0128-6<\/p>\n
The volume Between The Public Sphere and \u00d6ffentlichkeit<\/em> is a product of collaboration between The Johannissyan Institute and Utopiana cultural-creative organization, within the framework of Spaces program. The volume is compiled and edited by Vardan Azatyan with an extensive introduction by the editor. The contributions in the volume provide paths to thinking the public by discussing the notion and its different manifestations. The volume could be considered as the continuation of the anthology Public Sphere: Between Contestation and Reconciliation<\/em> published in 2007 by the National Association of Art Critics (AICA Armenia) (Editor Vardan Azatyan).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tesaneliq: Animals \u00a0 Yerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2025 ISBN 978-9939-9329-0-3 \u201cTesaneliq\u201d is a children’s book series aimed at developing children’s creative thinking and sensory understanding of the world through art. Art has the power to make the ordinary visible and remarkable. \u201cTesaneliq\u201d series aims …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-615","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":77,"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4403,"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Compiled, annotated, and written the epilogue by Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2023
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-8-9<\/p>\n
Within the framework of studying contemporary issues, Johannissyan Institute published the collection Hetardiakan Katsutyun\u2019 ev nra Qnnadtner<\/i><\/em>\u2019 (Postmodern Condition and Its Critics). The book was compiled and annotated by Vardan Azatyan, who is also the author of the concluding research of the volume. Vache Sargsyan The second volume of Soviet Armenian writer Vache Sargsyan\u2019s novel Akeldama<\/em>\u00a0entitled Permanent Freeze. Letters to Sonia Carol<\/i><\/em>\u00a0contains the author\u2019s previously unpublished novel which he wrote in 1966 upon his return from his sixteen-year long incarceration in the Gulag camps. The novel was revisited and completed in 1986. It continues the first novel\u2019s The Inimitable Story\u2019s<\/i><\/em>\u00a0hero Vazgen Darbinyan\u2019s journey through the camps, through which the customs of the exilic life reveal themselves with all their inner complexity. The volume has been supplemented with documents from family archives that in turn shed light upon hitherto unnoticed aspects of Stalinist policies. The volume has been compiled and edited by Siranush Dvoyan.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Zareh Vorbuni The second volume of the critical edition of Zareh Vorbuni\u2019s works includes the novels An Ordinary Day <\/i><\/em>(1974) and the previously unpublished\u00a0Tigran<\/i><\/em>\u00a0(1973-1979)\u00a0<\/i><\/em>which are the fourth and the fifth novels of the series Persecuted<\/i><\/em>. Both novels depict the exilic experience in the Diaspora, and particularly in Paris and Marseille. The first presents a complete chain of a day-long and the second of six-day long events. With Tigran<\/i><\/em>, an essential turn takes place because of the main hero and due to the circumstances. Tigran, as the other protagonists of the first volume of the series, is persecuted by others. But he also persecutes himself. The volume is complimented with annotations which are based on unpublished archival materials, and which reveal the path in Vorbuni\u2019s work to achieving a completed manuscript and the creative difficulties on it. The volume was compiled and edited by Krikor Beledian. The general editor of the book is Siranush Dvoyan.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Zareh Vorbuni The first volume of French Armenian writer Zareh Vorbuni\u2019s (Eoksuzian) three-volume publication contains the first three novels of Vorbuni\u2019s series The Experiment<\/em> (1929), The Candidate<\/em> (1967) and The Asphalt<\/em> (1972). In these novels the writer presents the experience of a generation that lived through the loss of home as well as the loss of the familiar surrounding as a possibility of opening up towards and experiencing what is foreign. Vorbuni is the first of those Diaspora writers who experience the Diaspora inwardly through literature as a tragedy of an irretrievable loss of home and homeland on the one hand, and as a possibility for intellectual subjectivization on the other hand. Thus, it is of no coincidence that the title of the series of novels carries \u2013 and the pen name of the author affirms \u2013 this very paradoxical experience of twentieth-century Armenian identity.<\/p>\n The publication contains annotations that identify the bibliographical differences between the first publications of the novels, the original manuscript and the initial French translations. The volume includes Marc Nichanian\u2019s chapter on Zareh Vorbuni.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Missak Khostikian The book contains the translation of theologian-philosopher Missak Khostikyan\u2019s doctoral thesis that Khostikyan defended in Bern in 1907. The dissertation is published alongside its German original and is supplemented with extensive annotations. The book also includes valuable documents that reveal the manifold of activities that Khostikyan was engaged with in Armenia as well as previously unpublished official documents and letters from his student years. The volume concludes with a critical addendum that contains Ashot Grigoryan\u2019s and Vardan Azatyan\u2019s studies. The book ends with a concise chronology of Khostikyan\u2019s life and works.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Vache Sargsyan Vache Sargsyan\u2019s novel\u00a0Akeldama<\/em>\u00a0is a monument of Soviet Armenian literature of exile that has thus far remained obscure. Written in a fictional form throughout the 1960s in the aftermath of the author\u2019s return from sixteen years of exile in the Gulags the novel presents Sargsyan\u2019s reminiscences of his exilic experience and his attempt to revisit the characters of his friends. \u00a0Sargsyan was arrested in 1941 when, still a youth, he had started teaching at the village school of Verin Talin. In the context of Khruschev\u2019s policies of destalinization he was acquitted and released in 1956. After his return from exile he continued his literary and public activities by participating in the liberation movements of his time. The first volume of the novel\u00a0The Inimitable Story\u00a0<\/em>is seeing publication for the first time and is accompanied with Siranush Dvoyan\u2019s critical evaluation of Vargsyan\u2019s life and literary legacy in the context of the literature of exile. The volume also includes documents related to the publication of the novel.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Vardan Azatyan The small book published on the occasion of the first anniversary of the revolution in Armenia in April-May, 2018, presents the author\u2019s understanding of the event. It aims to think and conceive of the event on its own terms<\/em>. And since revolutions are essentially creative processes their adequate understanding cannot succeed without an imaginary thinking. Thus, the book does not present an analysis of the revolution. Rather it is a philosophical undertaking about the cultural forces capable of making a revolution in Armenia.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Nora N. Nercessian The book tells the story of the American orphanages located in the former Tsarist military barracks Kazachi, Seversky, and Polygon in Alexandropol (present day Gyumri) from 1919 to 1931. This exceptional work on the history of the orphanage, based on local and international, published and unpublished sources, articles, archival documents, reports, memoirs, photographs, tells the stories of tens of thousands of orphans and sheds light upon the historical and political events in the midst of which they were brought up and educated.\u00a0The City of Orphans<\/em>\u00a0provides a unique perspective for understanding the complex political nuances of the Dashnak, Soviet and US policies of the time.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Karin Grigoryan, Vahe Budumyan Inquiries Into Photography<\/em> is a sourcebook on photography. The authors Karin Grigoryan and Vahe Budumyan have years of experience in teaching and translating texts on photography into Armenian. The book has two interrelated parts, with the first articulating the main historical and theoretical questions in photography and the second dedicated to technique. The book concludes with a glossary of terms.<\/p>\n It was published in collaboration with Actual Arvest Press.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Ashot Johannissyan Israel Ori and the Armenian Liberation Idea is the first volume of Nerqin Grots Book<\/em> Series<\/a>. The volume presents the Armenian translation of historian and politician Ashot Johannissyan\u2019s PhD dissertation which he defended in Munich in 1913, along with its German original. The book is complimented with Johannissyan\u2019s working notes, as well as with extensive editorial notes which allow the reader to trace the development of the dissertation up until Johannissyan\u2019s double volume monograph Episodes in the History of Armenian Liberation Thought<\/em>. The book, in addition, contains the opinions of Johannissyan\u2019s German professors regarding their student\u2019s dissertation as well as Johannissyan\u2019s speech delivered later in 1955 on the occasion of the defense of his doctoral dissertation in Yerevan. The book concludes with Vardan Azatyan\u2019s study of Johannissyan\u2019s life and work.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Marc Nichanian The double volume work by contemporary Diaspora Armenian philosopher Marc Nichanian entitled Image, Narrative, History<\/em> is a philosophical study dedicated to the three key problematics in contemporary thinking mentioned in the title. The book refers to the writings of the twentieth century Diaspora Armenian and French writers Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, Krikor Beledian, Zabel Yesayan, Shahan Shahnour and Zareh Vorbuni. The first volume is dedicated to the literary and philosophical works of Bataille and Blanchot which Nichanian considers from the perspective of the relationship between the survivor and the image.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Marc Nichanian The second volume is dedicated to the works of four Western Armenian writers \u2013 Zabel Yesayan, Krikor Beledian, Shahan Shahnour and Zareh Vorbuni. Nichanian considers the latter from the perspective of the figure of the survivor, the problems this figure poses and the haunting presence of the image in them.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Editor Vardan Azatyan The volume Between The Public Sphere and \u00d6ffentlichkeit<\/em> is a product of collaboration between The Johannissyan Institute and Utopiana cultural-creative organization, within the framework of Spaces program. The volume is compiled and edited by Vardan Azatyan with an extensive introduction by the editor. The contributions in the volume provide paths to thinking the public by discussing the notion and its different manifestations. The volume could be considered as the continuation of the anthology Public Sphere: Between Contestation and Reconciliation<\/em> published in 2007 by the National Association of Art Critics (AICA Armenia) (Editor Vardan Azatyan).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Tesaneliq: Animals \u00a0 Yerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2025 ISBN 978-9939-9329-0-3 \u201cTesaneliq\u201d is a children’s book series aimed at developing children’s creative thinking and sensory understanding of the world through art. Art has the power to make the ordinary visible and remarkable. \u201cTesaneliq\u201d series aims …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-615","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":77,"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4403,"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johannissyan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis selection from classical thinkers of modern Western philosophy summarizes debates among Western authors on the philosophical evaluation of the present and the current state of philosophical thought. The texts of Fredric Jameson and Richard Rorty reflect the influential analyses by J\u00fcrgen Habermas and Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard on the “postmodern condition.”
\nThis volume can be considered as a companion to the recently published book Hetardiakan Katsutyun\u2019<\/i><\/em> (Postmodern Condition) by Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lyotard, within the framework of the “Calouste Gulbenkian Translation Series.”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \n Akeldama<\/a>, v. 2<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n
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\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2023
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-7<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \n The Persecuted<\/a>, v. 2<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n
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\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2022
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-5-8<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \n The Persecuted<\/a>, v. 1<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \n
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2020
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-4-1<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \n David the Philosopher<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n
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\nCompiled and edited by Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2020
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-2-7<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \n Akeldama<\/a>, v. 1<\/h3>\n<\/td>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \n
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2019
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-3-4<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \n Who Made the Revolution<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \n
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2019
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-1-0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \n The City of Orphans: Relief Workers, Commissars and the \u201cBuilders of the New Armenia\u201d, Alexandropol\/Leninakan 1919-1931<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n
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\nPreliminary translation from English by Hasmik Harutyunyan
\nEditor Ruzanna Grigoryan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2018
\nISBN 978-9939-9176-0-3<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \n Inquiries into Photography<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \n
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, Actual Art, 2017
\nISBN 978-9939-816-99-9<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \n Israel Ori and the Armenian Liberation Idea<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \n
\nCompiled and edited by Vardan Azatyan
\nYerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2016
\nISBN 978-9939-1-0315-0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \n Image, Narrative, History, v. 1<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \n
\nYerevan: Actual Art, Johannissyan Institute, 2015
\nISBN 978-9939-816-84-5<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \n Image, Narrative, History, v. 2<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n
\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \n
\nYerevan: Actual Art, Johannissyan Institute, 2016
\nISBN 978-9939-816-96-8<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n \n Between The Public Sphere and \u00d6ffentlichkeit<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n
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\nYerevan: Utopiana, Johannissyan Institute, 2014
\nISBN 978-9939-1-0128-6<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"