National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)’s first Annual Vartan Gregorian Memorial Lecture features a presentation by Professor Talinn Grigor and co-author Professor Houri Berberian, professor of history and Armenian Studies at UC Irvine, on Armenian women and representation. 

“From Bogeyman to Hay Kin: Representations of Armenian Women in Modern Iran” is part of Grigor and Berberian’s larger book project that explores the history of Iran’s Armenian women from the beginning of Naser al-Din Shah’s reign in 1848 to the 1979 fall of the Pahlavi dynasty. As the first scholarly study of its kind, it analyzes the shifting relationship between Iran’s central nodes of power (absolute monarchy and patriarchy) and its Armenian female subjects (ethnic minorities and women) in Qajar and Pahlavi Iran. In this talk, Grigor and Berberian employ pictorial representations of Armenian women to demonstrate their impact on the processes, strategies, and anxieties of modernization by examining two pictorial spheres redolent of the entangled relationship between modernization and women’s visibility and representation: satirical cartoons (1920–58) and costume exhibition (1972–76).

The lecture is free and open to the public on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 4:30 pm PST

This event will be online via Zoom and livestreamed on NAASR’s YouTube channel. Register for the zoom event here.