The Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support
Cordially invites you to participate in the ARMACAD lecture on
The University of ChicagoBoothSchool of Business
by
Mr. Gevorg Azatyan
Date: 18 January 2010, Monday
Time: 18.30
Country: Armenia
City: Yerevan
Time and Venue: To be announced to registered participants
Deadline to Register:13 January 2010, Wednesday
All those who plan to get an MBA specializing in finance, strategy, and entrepreneurship and/or also are interest in the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (http://www.chicagobooth.edu/) are welcome to attend the lecture. Some of the topics that will be covered are: - How you can make it from Armenia. - The UofC Booth School of Business – school, application procedures, classes, people... - Why Booth and why a US b-school. - Financing your education in the US. An interactive discussion will follow the formal part of the lecture.
BIO: Gevorg Azatyan is currently enrolled in The University of Chicago Booth School of Business as an MBA student graduating in March of 2010. Before attending Chicago Booth, Gevorg raised two start ups in Armenia. Gevorg graduated from Armenian State University of Economics (former NarXoz) in 1998 with specialization in World Economics.
To participate in this lecture, please, submit an email with short (1-3 lines) introduction (in Armenian or English) about yourself to
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with “Booth” in the subject line. The authors of emails with different subject line will not be considered for participation in this lecture. So, please, be sure that you mention “Booth” in the subject line of your email when registering for this lecture. The details of the meeting will be shared with those who registered till January 13.
Written by Khachik Gevorgyan
Saturday, 12 December 2009 01:45
We at the McGill Armenian Students' Association join the initiative of the Harvard Armenian Society (HAS) as well as MIT and Oxford Armenian Societies and following the appeal of the Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support (ARMACAD), declare that our Association will also use all the available resources to help fellow Armenians in the Republic of Armenia and worldwide with any relevant activities that will contribute to their academic development.
The members of our association will help Armenian university or high school students to find available scholarships for McGill and manage travel and accommodation arrangements once he/she is accepted to this university. Whenever the members of the society travel to the Republic of Armenia, they will deliver a lecture introducing McGill to local students and encourage them to apply to the University.
In addition, we encourage all Armenian Societies within foreign Institutions of Higher Education and all Armenian Student Associations worldwide to join this movement and to introduce themselves to a wider Armenian Academic Community with a similar statement.
«Влияние приёмов письма на формирование графем и происхождение агванского алфавита», ելույթ՝ավանագիտությանհարցերիննվիրվածգիտաժողովում, Մոսկվա, 2008, մայիս։
Այսդասախոսությանըմասնակցելուհամարխնդրումենք 1-3 տողիսահմաններում Tarumian վերնագրովանգլերենկամհայերենլեզուներովձերմասիննամակուղարկել
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էլ. փոստիհասցեին։ Նամակում զուգահեռաբար կարող եք նախօրոք ձեր հարցերն ուղղել բանախոսին։ Այլվերնագրովնամակներըկջնջվենևդրանցհեղինակներըհանդիպմանըչենկարողանամասնակցել: Հետևաբարխնդրումենքանպայմանորպեսնամակիվերնագիրնշել Tarumian բառը։ Հանդիպմանմանրամասներըկուղարկվենմինչևդեկտեմբերի 14գրանցվածմասնակիցներին։
Sunday, 08 November 2009 09:04
On October 13, 2009 at McGill University, Montreal, Canada the McGill Armenian Students’ Association (MASA) hosted a presentation on the Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support (ARMACAD).
Those present to the event were BA, MA and PhD Students from McGillUniversity, ConcordiaUniversity and University of Montreal.
Arthur Dolmajian, Vice President of MASA, introduced Dr. Khachik Gevorgyan (president of ARMACAD, Yerevan State University) and Gayaneh Melkom Melkomian (ARMACAD member, McGill University), who talked about the establishment of ARMACAD, presented its purpose, past activities and future goals.
Khachik Gevorgyan began by stressing the importance of a healthy academic environment in the Republic of Armenia. He explained how ARMACAD had been established and was operating in view of achieving higher academic standards in Armenia. He then introduced the Association’s mailing lists in various disciplines, more precisely ARMACAD, the Social Sciences and Humanities mailing list, emphasizing the fact that it has become one of the biggest academic mailing lists in the region. Then he spoke about the ArmenianStudies, ARTACAD (arts), ARMACADEX (exact sciences) and the newly established ARMACAD-IT (computer sciences) mailing lists.
After his presentation Khachik Gevorgyan mentioned the academic partners of ARMACAD, particularly the Oxford, MIT and Harvard Armenian Societies. He briefly presented their statements of collaboration and the informative lectures on applying to the said universities organized in cooperation with them. Khachik Gevorgyan concluded with ARMACAD’s appeal for similar collaboration between Armenian associations in Canadian universities, in particular, with MASA.He spoke about the potential of MASA in influencing academic development in Armenia and among Armenian students. It was stressed that to create such cooperation it is very important that each Armenian student involved in any studies at international universities share all useful information on educational opportunities and scholarships from abroad by using the mailing lists of ARMACAD as well as deliver a lecture to students whenever he/she travels to the Republic of Armenia. In such cases ARMACAD organizes the lecture and disseminates relevant information through the Association’s mailing lists.
After Khachik Gevorgyan’s presentation, Gayaneh Melkom Melkomian spoke about her experience with ARMACAD. She stressed the importance of each Armenian student’s active participation in ARMACAD events, his/her willingness to give an informative lecture when travelling to Armenia, in view of raising academic awareness in Armenian students in the Republic of Armenia.
After the presentation, there was a “Question and Answer” session. Some of the participants, used the opportunity to express their appreciation of the mission carried out by ARMACAD. In particular, Dr. Oleh Kshanovski from the University of Kyiv, wished to express his gratitude to ARMACAD for the establishment of such a strong academic network and mentioned his experience of participating at academic events through ARMACAD.
Written by Khachik Gevorgyan
Thursday, 05 November 2009 22:45
Synopsis of the panel “Armenians and Islam” at the 10th annual conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society, University of Toronto, Canada, October 8-11, 2009
On October 10, 2009, Mushegh Asatryan and Khachik Gevorgyan, the founding members of the Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support (ARMACAD) took part in the panel “Armenians and Islam”, organized by them, which was part at the Central Eurasian Studies Society's 10th annual Conference at the University of Toronto, Canada. In late January a call for papers was distributed by Mushegh Asatryan to invite all interested parties to participate in the panel. From more than 15 applications 8 were accepted to constitute 2 different panels on “Armenians and Islam”, one on the medieval, and the other on the modern periods. The organizers of the conference accepted the panel on modern issues concerning the Armenians and Islam. After negotiations with the organizers the panels were merged and 3 participants registered for the mentioned panel.
On October 10 in the room N 023 at the Munk centre for international studies at the University of Toronto the panel on “Armenians and Islam” started.
The organizer of panel Mr. Mushegh Asatryan introduced to participants of the panel the idea and the reason of organizing such a panel. Since Armenian history and culture are viewed as part of the Christian heritage, Armenian studies is traditionally viewed as part of the study of the Christian Middle East, with little attention to the Islamic milieu in which Armenians have always lived. A second point worth mentioning is the popular view among Armenians of the Islamic world at best as “foreign”, and at worst as an “enemy”. This view is sometimes shared by Armenian academics working on Armenian history, which makes them view the history of Armenian interactions with the Muslim world as a series of battles and massacres (due to some historical events, such as the Genocide), completely ignoring the rich cultural interaction between the Armenians and the Muslim world. Thus, this panel is a symbolic step in urging future historians to view Armenian history in a more complex manner.
As a discussant of the panel Dr. Khachik Gevorgyan mainly focused on the following:
So far the discipline of Armenian Studies has been introduced either via separate conferences devoted only to Armenian Studies, or this discipline was introduced as a panel at international conferences mainly devoted to Middle Eastern Studies, Christian Studies, Bible Studies, etc.
He mentioned that one of the main ideas of this panel within this conference is to introduce the Armenian Studies in a broader concept of Eurasian Studies, which, of course, in some cases do overlap with the Middle Eastern Studies. But still taking into consideration the modern socio-political realities as well as the historical events through centuries it is important to view Armenian realities in the context of Eurasian Studies and more specifically in the context of Central Asian and Caucasian studies, which in their turn are main geographical areas to be studied within the Central Eurasian Studies Society. Thus this society and this conference were chosen by the organizers of this panel the Armenian Studies to be introduced in a new perspective.
As the programs of many conferences on Armenian Studies show, the main bulk of participants are from different countries but not Armenia. Dr. Gevorgyan mentioned that this situation has been changed by the active involvement of the Armenian Studies program at Michigan, Ann Arbor, which strives to always have representatives of Armenian academic circles during the events organized on Armenian Studies at Ann Arbor. From this point, Dr. Gevorgyan particularly mentioned that the importance of this panel can be viewed also from the perspective that it is organized by those who have their academic background from the Republic of Armenia and are bearers of Armenian Academic culture.
Then Dr. Gevorgyan discussed two papers presented at the panel by Alyson Wharton (SOAS, University of London), “The Rise and Eventual Fall of the Balyan Family: The Phenomenon of a Family of Armenian-Ottoman Architects in 19th Century Istanbul” and Roubina Shnorhokian (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada), “A Medieval Trans-imperial Chronicle: Preliminary Remarks on the Examples of Het’um of Korykos and Rashid al-Din”. Sona Tajiryan from the Republic of Armenia who was to present a paper was unable to attend this conference.
I found out about this great group few weeks ago.. I'm so proud of Armenians!
Comment from Hasmik Manukyan
Thank you so much ARMACAD! I am so happy to be a part of this large family...
ARMACAD has a great mission. It is a true help for the intelligent Armenian youth to find new opportunities for professional development. It develops new culture among Armenian young people to share their knowledge and experience and promote the professional development of their compatriots through its friendly and sincere network…
Great work… and infectious
Hope all of us will contribute to this great mission one day!
Comment from Mihran Vardanyan (Oxford)
Amazing! Fantastic! ARMACAD!
The Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support (ARMACAD) unites young academics and students. It gives the opportunity to Armenian students to acquire wide variety of essential skills in order to be successful. The workshops and meetings organized by ARMACAD in Armenia (and worldwide) have vital importance for the Armenian students and academicians.
ARMACAD has a great mission. It is a true help for the intelligent Armenian youth to find new opportunities for professional development. It develops new culture among Armenian young people to share their knowledge and experience and promote the professional development of their compatriots through its friendly and sincere network…
Great work… and infectious
Hope all of us will contribute to this great mission one day!
The Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support (ARMACAD) unites young academics and students. It gives the opportunity to Armenian students to acquire wide variety of essential skills in order to be successful. The workshops and meetings organized by ARMACAD in Armenia (and worldwide) have vital importance for the Armenian students and academicians.