On October 23, 2018, the three day international conference on "Yerevan- 2800" launched at the Hall of the Yerevan History Museum. The conference was organized on the initiative of the Institute of History, NAS of RA, Yerevan History Museum and Yerevan State University.
On October 19, 2018 the international conference dedicated to the 175th anniversary of "Basmavep", Armenological, philological and literary magazine started at the hall of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences with the support of the National Academy of Sciences of RA, RA Ministry of Diaspora, and Mkhitarian Congregation. The participants of conference were welcomed by Mkhitar Hayrapetyan, RA acting Minister of Diaspora.
From October 15 to October 18, 2018, the International Scientific Conference "From the Baltic to the Black Sea: Armenians in cultural, economic and political processes" was held in Yerevan.
On the 12-13th October 2018, a conference, bearing the title INTERNATIONAL “Beyond ISIS: Minorities and Religious diversity in Iraq and the future of Ezidi, Christians, Shabak, Yarsan, Mandeans and other religious minorities” was organized by the American University of Kurdistan in collaboration with the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament. The conference consisted of five panels namely; 1- Vanishing Iraqis: Jews, Karaits and Mandeans. 2- Christian Minorities in Iraq. 3- Ezidi after the Ferman. 4- Mainstreaming and othering: Shabak, Yarsan and Bahai. 5- Lost and new religious groups in Iraq.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the first Armenian Republic, and responding to an invitation from The Iraqi Armenian Women’s
On 4th October 2018, by the initiative of the Iraqi historian Dr. Jewad El-Beydhani and in collaboration with the Directorate of Baghdad Museum, Seda Ohanian of RA NAS, Institute of History, gave a lecture in one of the ancient and historical chambers of the said Museum.
On September 15-16, 2018 an international conference titled "100 Years of Independence Restoration” was held in Akhalkalaki, Georgia, organized by the Council of Armenian NGO's of Samtskhe-Javakheti and Kvemo Kartli.
The Conference on "Baku 1918: The Continuation of the Armenian Genocide", chaired by Prof. Ashot Melkonyan, Director of the Institute of History, NAS of RA was held on September 14, 2018 at the Conference Hall of the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences.
An international conference titled "Baku 1918: The Continuation of the Armenian Genocide" will be held on September 14-17, 2018 dedicated to the 100th commemoration of the massacres of the Armenians in Baku. Opening of the conference will take place on September 14 at 13:00 at the conference hall of the Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia.
The regular 10th jubilee summer school of young CIS historians in the Kyrgyz Republic titled "The Excellence of Civil Fight in History" took place on July 15-21, 2018. It was organized by the Institute of History and Cultural Heritage of the Kyrgyz National Academy of Sciences, CIS Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation and International Association of History Institutions of CIS Countries.
More than 60 young historians and experienced professors from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan took part in the works of the school.
The delegation of the Institute of History of NAS RA was headed by Professor Karen Khachatryan, Deputy Director of the Institute. Researchers of the institute Hamo Sukiasyan, Ph.D, Nineta Adamyan, Anahit Shagoyan, Varditer Grigoryan participated as listeners.
16 speakers from participating countries delivered interesting lectures during the Summer School, including Professor K. Khachatryan, whose lecture was devoted to the civil fights during the final phase of the establishment of the Soviet power in Armenia in the first half of 1921.
On 17th July 2018, the director of the Institute of History, academician Ashot Melkonyan received in his office Dr. Jawad El-Baidhani, the dicrector of the Institute of Kurdish Studies in Iraq, who was visiting Armenia and the institute for the second time. This meeting was attended also by Dr.Seta Ohanian of the Institute of History and Mr. Ara Ashjian, the wellknown Iraqi historian.
July 4-7, 2018 in the city of Marseille, France the 6th INoGS Global Conference was organized by the Medical Faculty of Aix-Marseille University. The conference was entitled “Genocide and Mass Violence: Diagnosis, Treatment and Recovery”. Almost 150 genocide scholars – participants from five continents and more than 30 different countries presented their papers on topic.
The conference covered more than 70 reports on various directions of Armenian studies. The authors of the reports are scientists, invited from Italy France, Russia, U.S., Switzerland, Greece, Ukraine. “Matenadaran has been considered to be a unique structure from the day of its foundation, as it is equally a manuscript repository, library, scientific research institute and museum. The fact that we have this remarkable center, which perfectly combines medieval traditions and national sources, is first of all the achievement of Levon Khachikyan,” Director of Matenadaran Vahan Ter-Ghevondyan noted.
On June 23-24, 2018 a group of Armenian researchers and lecturers within the framework of the History and Culture Program visited military units of the Artsakh Republic’s Defense Army and delivered lectures.
