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Armenian Club serves as the Public Announcements page of the ASCU Student Association registered in the Department of Multicultural Affairs of the Columbia University in the City of New York.

05/02/2026

Looking back on another wonderful year with CU Armenian Society! Full of dancing, sourj, and community ❤️💙🧡

04/20/2026

Join us for a panel discussion on Nor Arapgir and Armenian compatriotic unions!

Special thanks to the CU Armenian Center for supporting Sophia’s independent research.

04/16/2026

Please consider supporting Narek Ohanyan, a young climate leader from Armenia who was recently accepted to Columbia’s Climate School. GFM link in bio! ❤️

In the words of his friend Armen:

“This GoFundMe is on behalf of my best friend, Narek — a young climate leader from Armenia who has just been accepted into one of the world’s top climate programs at Columbia University in New York City. Now, he needs our help to get there!

Narek is truly a force of nature. Whether he’s founding youth climate initiatives, leading youth inclusion efforts at UNICEF Armenia, or representing our country on global stages, he doesn’t just talk about the future—he actively builds it.

Today, he has reached a milestone that most only dream of: acceptance into the Master of Science in Climate program at Columbia University.

This isn’t just any program. Columbia’s Climate School is ranked among the top in the world, and out of thousands of applicants globally, Narek was selected because of his exceptional dedication, leadership, and vision. Those of us who know him have always believed in his potential—now the world is recognizing it too.

But for students from Armenia, the path from acceptance to attendance is not guaranteed. The distance between a dream and an Ivy League classroom is not just measured in miles—it’s measured in financial barriers that talent alone cannot overcome.“

04/14/2026

Join us for an art build on April 23! We will be making signs for various Armenian Genocide Remembrance events around the city, including the April 24 March for Justice and the April 26 Times Square Commemoration.

03/04/2026

We are so excited to partner with Barnard ADAAS to welcome Dr. Tamar Shirinian, author of Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Q***r Possibility in Armenia. Join us to learn about the politics of “no!”, Armenia’s national survival, q***r futures, and diaspora.

🗓️Tuesday March 24
🕰️ 6-7:30pm
📍116 Knox Hall, 606 W. 122nd St

Pls DM if you do not have a CUID and need to be registered for campus access!

02/25/2026

A brief reminder that our screening of Mel is RESCHEDULED to this upcoming Sunday, March 1, 6:30 pm at Mayday.
Hope to see you there!

02/23/2026

Please consider supporting Aik Safaryan’s GoFundMe.
None of us are free until all of us are free.

02/12/2026

Join Barnard BBB and CU Armenian Society for a screening and discussion of Mel, a film directed by Inna Sahakyan. Link to register in bio!

🗓️ Sunday, February 22
🕰️ 6:30-8:30pm
📍Mayday, 176 St Nicholas Ave, Brooklyn, NY

“Mel charts the dramatic journey of the once-celebrated Armenian weightlifter Mel Daluzyan who became a pariah in his own country after publicly coming-out as transgender. Shot in an intimate style, this documentary exposes the oppression faced by LGBTQ people in Armenia’s patriarchal society, while celebrating its protagonist’s determination to follow his dream of freedom at all costs. The first q***r film to receive state funding, Mel marks a turning point in the history of Armenian cinema.“

12/06/2025

Join us for a laidback study social this upcoming Wednesday! Tea will be provided 🫖

11/26/2025

We are so excited to host Cris Patvakanian to discuss his new book, In The Shadow of Mount Khustup, next Friday! Join us to learn about the novel and his writing process. CUAS will provide complementary copies of the book to current students. 📚🏔️

“In the shadow of Mount Khustup lie the secrets, stories, and adventures of the Lazaryan clan. Khatchik Lazaryan, a young engineer and veteran of the 2020 Artsakh war, moves back to his family’s village in southern Armenia to work at the KapanQar Mine. Little does Khatchik know, returning to the land of his ancestors will reignite a spark with his first love, the mysterious but recently engaged Siranoush. Khatchik, who is coping with post-war trauma, soon discovers that not all lights will lead him out of the darkness, and his fight for survival did not stop on the battlefield.

In the Shadow of Mount Khustup is the first modern romance novel published about the Syunik Province of Armenia, and is a story that features the region’s history, cuisine, and local Kapan dialect of Armenian.”

11/19/2025

Excited to announce the Spring 2026 Armenian Studies course, taught by Professor Nareg Seferian!

Geography as World-Writing: This course is about space and power. If “geography” is literally “world-writing”, then who is doing the writing, how, and why? Where is the line (the border!) between neutral, descriptive writing about the world and agenda-driven, ascriptive writing upon the world? Moreover, who is the reader of the so-written world? How and why is it to be read? This course invites students to think more deeply about those questions, taking on concepts and categories from the literature of geography, political geography, and geographical imaginations, as well as classical geopolitics and critical geopolitics. Various cases will inform the material of this course – the United States, China, India, Serbia, Senegal, Kenya, and the Middle East more broadly, with some emphasis on Armenia and Azerbaijan and the conflict over Artsakh/Nagorno-Karabakh. This course is designed to be a highly interactive semester-long engagement, based partly on texts and partly on visual discourse, with significant student-designed components. By the end of this course, students will become familiar with a number of analytical thinking tools related to geography, space and place, and power dynamics alongside substantial information on the cases examined. There are no pre-requisites or co-requisites. All accommodations welcome.

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