The Department of the History of the Armenian Question and the Armenian Genocide at the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia invites scholars to participate in the international conference entitled “The National Awakening of the Armenian People as the Catalyst for International Recognition and Condemnation of the Armenian Genocide,” to be held on 22–23 April 2025.

      The aim of the conference is to comprehensively study and publicize the process of international recognition and condemnation of the crime committed against the Armenian people, with a particular focus on the national awakening that began in Soviet Armenia and the Diaspora in 1965 on the 50th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The conference will also highlight the historical, legal, and political dimensions of this process, as well as the prospects for the restoration of justice.

A lecture titled “The Origin of Armenians from the Perspective of Genetics” was held in the conference hall of the NAS RA Institute of History, delivered by Dr. Levon Yepiskoposyan, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, and Head of the Laboratory at the NAS RA Institute of Molecular Biology.

"Armenia-Turkey relations. threat or opportunity ?" international conference

A seminar-discussion titled “THE APPLICATION OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT PERIOD OF ARMENIAN HISTORY” was held at the Institute of History, NAS RA.

A hybrid international conference titled “Historical Primary Sources on Armenian Settlements” was held in the conference hall of the NAS RA Institute of History, dedicated to the centenary of Vardges Mikaelyan. In addition to the Institute’s staff, participants included representatives from Egypt (Armine Hakobyan), the Czech Republic (Anna Karapetyan), and Romania (Arsen Arzumanyan).

Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of History on the specialization of “History of Armenia” 07.00.01.

The defense of the dissertation will be held on December 20, at 14⁰⁰ at the Session of the Specialized Council 004 on Armenian History of НЕSC RA by the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of RA (0019, Yerevan, Marshal Baghramyan ave., 24/4)

On 11–12 November, Moscow hosted the international scientific conference “1944 in the History of the Second World War,” organized by the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Military-Historical Society. The conference brought together prominent scholars from Russia, CIS countries, Europe, the United States, China, India, and Brazil. Academician Ashot Melkonyan, Director of the NAS RA Institute of, delivered a presentation titled “The Armenian People’s Contribution to the Battles for the Liberation of Eastern Europe in 1944.” Addressing the issue of the ongoing destruction of Soviet military monuments in certain countries, he noted that this situation has long been evident in the territories of Artsakh occupied by Azerbaijan from 2020 to 2023. There, in addition to numerous Armenian historical and cultural monuments, memorials to Armenian soldiers who fought in the Great Patriotic War have been destroyed, including those dedicated to Marshal Hovhannes (Ivan) Baghramyan, Marshal Hamazasp Babajanyan, Marshal Sergey Khudyakov (Khanperyants), and Nelson Stepanyan, a Shushi native and twice Hero of the Soviet Union.

On 29 October 2024, the Institute of History hosted the presentation of the book “Levon Zekiyan 80,” organised by the Department of Armenian Diaspora and Communities.

The NAS RA Institute of History hosted a presentation for the book Levon Gabriel Shaghoyan (1887-1974) by Seda Ohanyan, Cd. hist. sci., a researcher in the Department of the History of Armenian Colonies and the Diaspora.

On 29 October 2024, the presentation of two collections, From Lori Fortress to Stepanavan: Following the Traces of Historical and Cultural Heritage and XLIII Scientific Session of the Council of Young Researchers of the NAS RA Institute of History dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of Simon Krkyasharyan, took place.

On October 24, the Institute of History of NAS RA hosted Colonel, Dr. sc. pol., Professor T. Kocharyan, Acting Head of the National Defence Research University of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia, and the retired Colonel S. Sujyan, Cd. sc. in Geography, Associate Professor and Head of the Center for Military Arts History Research of the same university. During this meeting, a memorandum of scientific cooperation was signed between the Institute of History of the NAS RA and the National Defence Research University of the RA Ministry of Defence, furthering collaborative efforts between the two institutions.

On the initiative of the Yerevan office of the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society, and in collaboration with the Chamber of Architects of Armenia, a pan-Armenian conference dedicated to the First Prime Minister of the First Republic of Armenia was held on 15 October, titled “Hovhannes Kajaznuni: Architect.”

From 19 to 21 September, Yerevan State University (YSU) hosted an international three-day conference titled The Armenian Genocide: Introspections of the Past and the Present. The event was dedicated to the 90th anniversary of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, a seminal novel by Austrian writer Franz Werfel.

Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Historyon the specialization of “History of Armenia” 07.00.01.

The Defense of the Disseration will be held on Novenber 8, 2024, at 14⁰⁰ at the Session of the Specialized Council 004 on Armenian History of HESC RA by the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of RA (0019, Yerevan, Marshal Baghramyan ave., 24/4).

 The Institute of History and Ethnology of I. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, in collaboration with the NAS RA Institute of History and various European academic institutions, organised an international scientific conference titled “National Liberation and Anti-Soviet Movements in the Caucasus and East-Central Europe during the post-Versailles Period”.

On 22 November 2024, the NAS RA Institute of History will host an international in-person and online scientific conference titled Historical Primary Sources on Armenian Colonies, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the distinguished source studies scholar, historian, and academician, Dr. Hist. Sci., Professor Vardges Mikayelyan.

Dissertation for the degree of the Doctor of History on the specialization of «History of Armenia» 07.00.01.

The defense of the dissertation will be held on Օctober 11, 2024, at 14⁰⁰ at the session of the Specialized Council 004 on Armenian History of HESC RA by the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of RA (0019, Yerevan, Marshal Baghramyan ave., 24/4).

Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of History on the specialization of  “History of Armenia” 07.00.01.

The Defense of the Dissertation will be held on September 24, 2024, at 14⁰⁰ at the Session of the Specialized Council 004 on Armenian History of HESC RA by the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of RA (0019, Yerevan, Marshal Baghramyan ave., 24/4).

 On July 2, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Armenia, S. P. Kopirkin, visited the Institute of History of the NAS RA. During the meeting, issues related to regional matters and perspectives on bilateral cooperation in the field of historiography were discussed