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Jonas Malberg – Lecture on Paimio sanatorium /Յոնաս Մալբերգ – Պայմիոյի առողջարանի մասին

Խմբագրակազմ — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 17:34:17 +0000

Lecture on Paimio sanatorium conservation management plan development project by Jonas Malberg – architectural historian, researcher at the Alvar Aalto museum, international consultant of Sevan writers’ resort’s restoration project. Alvar Aalto’s Paimio sanatorium and Gevorg Kochar’s and Mikael Mazmanyan’s Sevan writers’ resort’s restoration and conservation projects are included in Paul Getty’s “Keeping it Modern” program.

Ճարտարապետության պատմաբան, Ալվար Աալտոյի թանգարանի հետազոտող, Սևանի գրողների հանգստյան տան վերականգնման նախագծի միջազգային խորհրդատու Յոնաս Մալմբերգի դասախոսությունը՝ Պայմիոյի առողջարանի պահպանության կառավարման պլանի ձևավորման նախագծի մասին։ Ալվար Աալտոյի Պայմիոյի առողջարանի, ինչպես նաև Գևորգ Քոչարի և Միքայել Մազմանյանի Սևանի գրողների հանգստյան տան վերականգնման նախագծերը ընդգրկված են Փոլ Գեթի հիմնադրամի «Պահպանել Արդի» ծրագրի շրջանակում։

Richard Lachmann — How and Why Modern States Became Nation-States

Խմբագրակազմ — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:30:29 +0000

Ричард Лахман – Как и почему современные государства стали национальными․

Richard Lachmann (Ph.D. Harvard 1983) is professor of sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His book, Capitalists In Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe (Oxford, 2000) received the 2003 American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award. He is the author of States and Power (Polity 2010), What is Historical Sociology? (Polity 2013). He also is researching media coverage of war deaths in the United States and Israel from the 1960s to the present.

Թեղուտի հիմնախնդիրը

Խմբագրակազմ — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:19:17 +0000

Akhtala Tailing Dump

Խմբագրակազմ — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:10:06 +0000

Comments on Akhtala tailing dump by the chairman of the Green Union of Armenia Hakob Sanasaryan.

“Post-Soviet Urban Spaces” by Hrach Bayadyan

Խմբագրակազմ — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:04:00 +0000

Since late 1990s, a number of changes have been made in the Yerevan city area, which give birth to various questions: How does the meaning of our environment change? Which new meanings emerge and which ones slowly fade away? Who is interested in these changes of meaning and who wants to preserve them? Who struggles for alternative meanings and how? The course of these changes can be described in three main dimensions: the continuing Soviet- Soviet-Armenian, which constantly changes its meaning due to context changes, as well as retaliatory actions against the nationalization and the commercialization of the city space. The accessibility of information concerning the city space, the growing social significance of the information-communication network can be mentioned as vivid characteristics of the general context (especially in the last few years).

The first years of independence were characterized by the desire to erase the unwanted traces of the Soviet Union and in doing so to nationalize the history of the city and its territory. By renaming the squares, the streets, the buildings and other places, by removing statues and replacing them with new ones, it was attempted to reflect the national historical past on the surface of the city in the face of glorious ancestors and great events.

From the perspective of addressing the above-mentioned questions and particularly discussing the relationship between Yerevan’s socialist past and the present processes, two monumental buildings should be paid special attention to: Mother Armenia (together with the Victory park) and the monument dedicated to the 50th university of Soviet Armenia (together with the entire area of Cascade) with their similarities and differences.

These can be very briefly described in the following manner: both being full of signs of the Soviet ideology have essentially lost their monumental discourse dimension: their aphorisms inseparable from socialist utopias have mostly been changed or have become unreadable. Yet the former is better connected with the Soviet past and the post-Soviet period interferences are more related to the efforts of nationalizing the territory or conserving what can be perceived as socialistic. While the second can be described as one of Yerevan’s extraordinary places which, in the cultural sense, is subject to constant interventions of westernization, preserving the environment created by replicating the Soviet monumentalism and the elements of national architecture.

About the Performance “Rape”

Խմբագրակազմ — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:25:13 +0000

A talk with the stage director and actress Nanor Petrosyan and the theatre expert and publicist Ara Nedolyan

The Discussion of the Teghut Issue at the RA Constitutional Court

Խմբագրակազմ — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:10:04 +0000

A discussion took place at the Constitutional Court on 22.08.2012, for determining to what extent the judicial acts regarding the Teghut mine exploitation case correspond to the RA Constitutional Court’s legal position on judicial accessibility.

Nazaret Karoyan. The National & New Challenges

Խմբագրակազմ — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:29:43 +0000

The project entitled “A Commentary on the Modern Social Processes in Armenia” attempts to give a new meaning to the term “national” in the framework of a video interview. The series involve 10 interviews with scientists, art critics and civic activists. The pivotal idea, “the national” paradigm, is introduced by the commentators through different topics (from individual liberties to global political and economic processes) and viewpoints (from mere scientific to personal viewpoints). The authors of the project are Arevik Martirosyan and David Stepanyan. The project is the initiative of the cultural NGO “Utopiana”.

Susanna Gjulamiryan. Stereotypes & Criticism

Խմբագրակազմ — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:26:31 +0000

A. Tagevosyan. Conflict is Tomorrow’s Hope

Խմբագրակազմ — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:23:33 +0000