Press Release
National Association for Armenian
Studies and Research (NAASR)
395 Concord Ave.
Belmont, MA 02478
Tel.: 617-489-1610
Email: hq@naasr.org
naasr to host illustrated talk on Armenian tiflis by hayk demoyan
The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) host a talk by Dr. Hayk Demoyan, “Tiflis: An Illustrated History of Its Armenian Heritage,” on Thursday, May 28, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. (Eastern)
/ 4:30 p.m. (Pacific), at the NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building, 395 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA.
The event is free and open to the public and can also be attended online via Zoom (registration link: or YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/ArmenianStudies). Following the program there will be a reception to which all attendees are cordially
invited.
Dr. Demoyan’s talk will draw on his massive publication
п╒п╦я└п╩п╦я│: п≤п╩п╩я▌я│я┌я─п╦я─п╬п╡п╟п╫п╫п╟я▐ п╦я│я┌п╬я─п╦я▐ п░я─п╪я▐п╫я│п╨п╬пЁп╬ п╫п╟я│п╩п╣п╢п╦я▐ (Tiflis: An Illustrated History of Its Armenian Heritage, 2024). This volume presents previously unknown or little-known pages of the history of Tiflis (Tbilisi)—the center of Armenian intellectual,
economic, and cultural activity in the South Caucasus before and after the region’s annexation by the Russian Empire. Historically, the capital of Georgia developed into a unique micro-civilization where the heritages of many peoples and confessions intertwined.
The Armenian presence in old Tiflis is an impressive and valuable legacy of both the Georgian and Armenian peoples, who for centuries endured together the trials and hardships of a shared destiny.
Dr. Hayk Demoyan is an independent researcher who has been a U.S. Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian
Studies, Harvard University (2017-18), where he researched identity transformation processes in the South Caucasus. He served as the Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum and Institute in Yerevan from 2006 to 2017 and as chief editor of the International
Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies. Among his publications are Western Media Coverage of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict 1988-1990 (2010),
Armenian Sports and Athletics in the Ottoman Empire (2015), Armenian Legacy in America: A 400-Year Heritage (2018), and
Armenian Entrepreneurship: A Visual History (2023).
For more information about this program, contact NAASR at
hq@naasr.org.