Meetig date: February 10, 2023 Venue: via Zoom
Present
Ani Aprahamian, Deana Arsenian, Paul Boghossian, Mark Chenian, Al Eisaian, Nina Hovnanian, Adam Kablanian, , Mary Papazian, Vatche Sahakian
Absent
Vicken Cheterian, Artak Melkonyan, Karnig Kerkonian, Nerses Yeritsyan.
Meeting opened at 8:10am U.S. Pacific Time.
Total of 217 Fellows and 7 Friends
Results of votes on new candidates (click to expand)
Approved as Fellows (26)
Sona Balasanyan
Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, YSU
Bedross Der Matossian
Hymen Rosenberg Associate Professor in Judaic Studies; Vice Chair of History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Philippe Huneman
CNRS Research director, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (CNRS/ Université Paris 1 Sorbonne)
Mark L. Movsesian
Frederick A. Whitney Professor & Co-Director, Center for Law and Religion, St. John’s Law School
Joanne Nucho
Associate Professor of Anthropology; Chair of Anthropology; Coordinator of Middle Eastern Studies
Christopher Sheklian
Postdoc - Comparative religious studies, Radboud University (The Netherlands)
Anoush Terjanian
Historian of France in the 18th century, Fellow (HRREC) at University of Ottawa. Cabinet appointment on the Governing Council of Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, part of the Canadian delegation to UNESCO’s 3rd (di-ennial) World Higher Education Conference.
Stéphane Zekian
Research Fellow at CNRS UMR LIRE, Institut des sciences de l’homme, Lyon. History, representation, cultrual heritage, national identity
Bella Manshian
Research Fellow at KU Leuven, group leader at the Nano-health and Optical Imaging group at KU Leuven.
Armen Aghajanyan
Research Scientist at Meta AI, Deep learning
Artur Davoyan
Assistant Professor, Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering, UCLA
Hrant Khachatrian
Director of YerevaNN, Machine Learning research lab, and works as a Data Scientist at IntelinAir.
Claude Mutafian
French mathematician and a historian who specializes in Armenian history. Foreign Member of Armenian Academy of Sciences.
Maurizio Boriani
Professore ordinario, Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Politecnico Milano
Gaiane Casnati
Cultural Heritage Expert, Europa Nostra, Centre of Studies and Documentation of Armenian Culture in Italy
Tamar Hovsepian
Noted writer and curator with an expertise in Armenian and Contemporary Art.
Armen Minassian
Intellectual architect, working in Armenia and teaching at the university.
Ara Zarian
Architect in Milano, specializes in cultural preservation and restauration of historic monuments.
Prelate Levon Zekyan
Formerly from the Mkhitarian congregation. He established the summer school programs in Venice for teaching Armenian cultures to the diaspora kids, has published a lot on the culture of Armenians.
Mohsen Mohammadi
Director Of Indo-Persian Music, Ethnomusicology, UCLA Herb Alpert School Of Music. A musician that knows Armenian music well from another perspective.
Farhad Tehrani
Professor of Arts, Iran’s Organization for Cultural Preservation
Archbishop Grigor Chiftjian
The Archbishop of Tabriz in Iran. He is also a scholar and knows Armenia well. He is also outgoing and an active person.
Joanne Nucho
Associate Professor of Anthropology; Chair of Anthropology; Coordinator of Middle Eastern Studies
Mina Marefat
Architect, urban designer, and an architectural historian practicing in Washington and teaching at Georgetown University.
Philippe Huneman
CNRS Research director, Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (CNRS/ Université Paris 1 Sorbonne), working on issues about evolutionary biology and ecology.
Sona Balasanyan
Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, YSU
Approved as Friends (2)
Mina Marefat
Architect, urban designer, and an architectural historian practicing in Washington and teaching at Georgetown University
Chris Uregian
Member of Cabinet of the Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Promoting our European Way of Life: Economic aspects, An Economy that Works for People, and Europe fit for Digital Age.
Current bank account balance in U.S.: $6,920.70
Current bank account balance in Armenia: 723,367.00 drams (~$1824)
Income: Donations: $861, funds from FAR/ANSEF: $10,000 (just in)
Al reported on his meetings in Armenia. In particular, he relayed that the Central Bank has agreed to host the annual conference on June 26-28 at the Central Bank’s facilities in Dilijan. He also summarized plans for fundraising on two fronts — through the creation of a large network of small donors, as well as by soliciting a few larger funding possibilities.
France Board:
Boris Adjemian (Treasurer)