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The respectable guest blessed the Department of Armenian Studies

Participation of Faculty members in international conference (1-2 October 2021)

This year, the Martin Luther University in Halle/Wittenberg (Germany) is organizing the conference of the International Association of Armenian Studies (AIEA), which is the highest international professional organization in the field.

We congratulate Elke Hartmann, professor and co-founder of the Department of Armenian Studies on the successful completion of her habilitation at the Pázmány University!

Two of our students, Péter Récsei (History B.A.) and Kima Saribekyan (History M.A.) received second place and the special award respectively in the category of Modern and Contemporary History and Historical Memory.

We met three Armenian students at Sophianum to talk about the clashes in Karabakh from a very personal point of view.

The travel account of the Mekhitartist monk Minas Bžškeanc' has been published by Bálint Kovács and Grigor Grigorjan (Halle an der Saale) at Böhlau Verlag under the title Der Reisebericht des Minas Bžškeancʻ über die Armenier im östlichen Europa.

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, one of the world’s and the European Union’s biggest Armenian private foundations, supports the Armenian Studies Programme at PPCU for the fourth time. Its support is annually 25.000 EUR.

The GWZO Institute of Leipzig publishes a book series of its own with Bálint Kovács as co-editor, at the Böhlau publishing house, entitled "Armenier im östlischen Europa – Armenians in Eastern Europe"