Christina Maranci will deliver the 20th Vardanants Day Armenian Lecture at noon on Wednesday, Sept. 21 in the Northeast Pavilion of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, located at 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C. Titled “A World Monument: Zvart’nots’, Armenia, and the Wars of the Seventh Century,” Maranci’s lecture will focus on the iconic church of Zvartnots. Though it lies in ruins, the church has long been of interest to those who study the Armenian and Byzantine

On Saturday, September 5, Dr. Levon Avdoyan, Armenian & Georgian Area Specialist of the Library of Congress, presented a new e-book as part of the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival. The e-book, entitled “To Know Wisdom and Instruction,” contains 75 color images highlighting the varieties of the Armenian literary tradition from the era of manuscripts through the early periods of print and on to contemporary publishing. “Dr. Avdoyan continues to expand public acce

In 1512, Hakob Meghapart (Jacob the Sinner) opened an Armenian press in Venice, Italy, and published an Armenian religious book, “Urbatagirk” (the Book of Fridays). The era of Armenian printing had begun. In 2012, the Library of Congress marked the quincentenary of this milestone with an exhibition titled “To Know Wisdom and Instruction: The Armenian Literary Tradition at the Library of Congress” with a companion volume compiled by the Library’s Armenian Area Specialist Levon

By Taniel Koushakjian AAANews Blog Every summer, the Armenian Assembly of America family grows as the Terjenian-Thomas interns embark on an 8-week adventure in our nation’s capital. While many of our interns are working in their respective fields all over Washington, a select group who have a passion for journalism, communications, and politics have gained experience working in the Assembly’s press department. Gevorg Shahbazyan spends his time working between the Assembly com

by Orsolya Doricsak AAANews Blog 05/02/2014 Hovann Simonian and Peter Hrechdakian, administrators of the Armenian DNA Project, delivered the 18th Annual Vardanants Day Armenian Lecture, titled “DNA and the Origin of People: The Armenians” on Tuesday, April 22 at the Library of Congress, in Washington, DC. By reaching thousands of years into the past, the project aims to find genetic traces of both the ancient peoples whose descendants make up the current Armenian population (

The Near East Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress cordially invites you to The 18th Annual Vardanants Day Armenian Lecture, featuring Peter Hrechdakian and Hovann Simonian, Co-Administrators of the Armenian DNA Project, to discuss “DNA and the Origin of Peoples: The Armenians,” on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 from 12:00-2:30. The event will be held at the Northeast Pavilion (Enter through the African and Middle Eastern Division Reading Roo