On September 27-29, 2019 the 10th International Conference on “Historical and Cultural Heritage of Shirak: Modern Issues in Armenian Studies” took place at Sport and Cultural Center in Gyumri hosted by the Shirak Center for Armenian Studies, NAS RA. About 150 presentations were presented at the conference which was on the topics of history, archeology, ethnology, philology, philology of Armenia.
On September 20 to 22, 2019, the international scientific conference “National Classics in the World Artistic Context” dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Komitas and Hovhannes Tumanyan took place in the Temple Complex of the Russian and New Nakhichevan Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Presentation of the book “Tachat Hovakimyan - The Hero of Sardarapat” by author Seda Galstyan's took place in the State Museum of History of Armenia. The book was presented to audience by Prof. Ashot Melkonyan -the director of the Institute of History, NAS of RA who is the author of the foreword of the book.
Matenadaran hosted a discussion on "Traditional and Image Adaptation: History and Armenian Identity” with participation of Armenian diplomats from different countries of the world. The session was chaired by Dr. Ruben Karapetyan - the former researcher of the Institute of History of NAS RA, current Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
August 7 is Assyrian Memorial day, a day when the Assyrian community worldwide remembers its martyrs. Every year on this day the Assyrians around the world pay tribute to the memory of the 750,000 Assyrians who along with Armenian and Greeks brothers were subjected to genocide by the Ottomans during the First World War.
On September 11, 2019, at the Yerevan Branch of Moscow State University after Lomonosov on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War a conference was hosted by the topic “The World on the Eve of the World War II".
On September 2-6, 2019, Prof. Karen Khachatryan from the Institute of History, NAS of RA was invited by Dr. Andrei Timotin – the Director of the Romanian National Committee of South-East European Studies to participate on 12th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES in BUCHAREST, Romania.
During the conference the Institute of History, NAS of RA Prof. Ashot Melkonyan – the director of the Institute of History, NAS of RA, Dr. Armen Marukyan – the head of the Department of the Armenian Genocide Studies, and Hamo Sukiasyan, Ph.D – the Chairman of the Young Researchers' Council were presented their presentations.
On August 26, 2019 the Matenadaran-Gandzasar Scientific-Cultural Center hosted the International Conference on “Eastern Frontiers of Armenia: History and Culture”.
On August 19th, 2019 the President of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Academician Radik Martirosyan and Vice-President, Academician Yuri Shukuryan received Dr. Eduard Charchyan - the correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Aorta Department of the Moscow Pyotrovsky Surgical Center, a well-known surgeon who was born in Javakhk.
In the memory of April War of 2016 hero Sasha Galstyan from Metsamor and about 100 other martyrs a monument was unveiled with the efforts of Termoros Company (CEO Khoren Kotanjyan) in Metsamor of the Armavir region. The architect of the monument is Arthur Baghdasaryan.
On June 24th, 2019, the Armenian Pedagogical University after Kh. Abovyan organized the conference on "Armenia, 1920-1990" with the participation of specialists from the different educational institutions of the Republic of Armenia.
Honorable Prof. Melkonyan,
Yesterday’s protest in front of the building of the Institute of History, NAS of RA by SDHP "Tkhruni" Student-Youth Union is unacceptable.
I do not think, certainly, that the Central Board of the Hnchakian Party supports that street protest.
On June 14th, 2019 the conference was held in the city of Goris dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the great Armenian novelist Aksel Bakunts which was organized by Goris State University.
From March 6th to June 3rd of 2019, Alice Dumikyan, Ph.D - a researcher at the Department of Ancient History of the Institute of History, NAS of RA traveled to Paris to study «The Conceptual Approaches of the Study of the History and Historical Geography of the Van Kingdom in the French Historiography».
On May 25th, 2019, Prof. Karen Khachatryan celebrated his 50th birthday anniversary and 25th anniversary of scientific-educational activity. On May 27th at 2 pm the extended session of the Scientific Council of the Institute of History NAS of RA took place, which was devoted to this event.
The staff of the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia warmly congratulates Prof. Karen Khachatryan, the Deputy Director of the Institute of History on the occasion of his 50th birthday and 25th anniversary of the scientific and educational activity.
