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New exhibit celebrates Armenian printing

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“Celebrating the Legacy of Five Centuries of Armenian-Language Book Printing” showcases books from the 16^th century to present day. The exhibit, which runs through Nov. 16, includes works from the permanent collections of ��-Dearborn’s Armenian Research Center (ARC) and the Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum in Southfield.

While the first printing press in Armenia did not appear until the late 18^th century, Armenian-language books were published through presses throughout Europe and western Asia as early as 1512.

“Armenia was one of the earliest languages in the world in which books were printed,” said Ara Sanjian, ARC director. “This exhibition shows the diversity of where Armenian-language books have been printed—Venice, Amsterdam, Constantinople, Moscow—and the global reach of the Armenian people.”

The exhibit includes familiar titles in Armenian translation from John Milton, Shakespeare and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others.

“The university is proud of the sustained contribution the Armenian Research Center has made to the cultural experience of the University of Michigan-Dearborn community, and this exhibition adds to that continuing legacy,” said Chancellor Daniel Little.

The exhibit, which is sponsored by the Robert Ajemian Foundation, is part of a yearlong global commemoration of the 500^th anniversary of the first Armenian-language book. Celebrations throughout the world are marking the occasion, and UNESCO has named Yerevan the Book Capital of the World through April 2013.

After its initial run in the Mardigian Library, the exhibit will be displayed at the Manoogian Museum from Dec. 11, 2012-Jan. 31, 2013.

For more information about the exhibit’s display at Mardigian Library, or to schedule a group tour, contact ARC at 313-593-5181.

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A new exhibit at Mardigian Library commemorates the heritage and diversity of Armenian printing.

Research fellow visits campus's Armenian Research Center for dissertation work

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Research fellow visits campus's Armenian Research Center for dissertation work admin Mon, 11/07/2011 - 02:16

Asya Darbinyan, a graduate research fellow at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan, Armenia, recently spent four days at the Armenian Research Center conducting research for her dissertation on Near East Relief orphanages.

Near East Relief (now called the Near East Foundation) was a major U.S. relief organization established during the First World War to assist the victims of the Armenian Genocide and other atrocities of the same period.

Darbinyan is a Carnegie Endowment fellow this term, based at UCLA, but also is visiting other academic and research centers in Washington, DC; New York; Boston; and Dearborn to conduct additional fieldwork.

Pictured above, from left: Darbinyan and Ara Sanjian, director of the Armenian Research Center. Behind them is a replica of one of Near East Relief's publicity posters. Between 1915 and 1930, Near East Relief raised some $117 million to aid Armenian orphans; in today's dollars that amount would be $1.580 billion.

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Ambassador visits Armenian Research Center

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U.S. ambassador to Armenia Marie Yovanovitch (pictured above, left) chatted with Ara Sanjian, director of ��-Dearborn's Armenian Research Center, during her campus visit last month as part of a four-state tour to meet with Armenian-Americans.

Yovanovitch held a number of private meetings on campus with members of local Armenian-American organizations to encourage them to help with efforts of building up the post-Soviet Republic of Armenia.

The ambassador also held a town hall meeting on campus with the local Armenian-American community (pictured below) to discuss U.S.-Armenian relations and ways in which the U.S. government was assisting Armenia. During the town hall meeting, she also answered questions from the audience on a variety of topics, including the provision of technical support by private U.S. organizations to Armenia; issues related to corruption in Armenia; the possibilities of developing tourism there; as well as Armenia's relations with its neighbors, Russia, Turkey and Iran.

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Vasbouragan Society visits Armenian Research Center

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Vasbouragan is the Armenian medieval name of the area around Lake Van in modern Turkey. Many Armenians lived in the area covered by the medieval Armenian province of Vasbouragan until the years of the First World War.

The Vasbouragan Society brings together the descendants of the survivors of Armenians, who were deported from that area as part of the Armenian Genocide in 1915-1916. It has chapters all over the United States and Canada, and this year it held its annual convention in Dearborn.

While on campus, Ani Kasparian and Gerald E. Ottenbreit, Jr. gave the visitors a tour of the center, where they were impressed by the center's collection of books and other materials concerning their ancestral region.

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Members of the Vasbouragan Society recently took the time to visit ��-Dearborn's Armenian Research Center.