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Official Opening of Zoryan Institute and AUA Center for Oral History

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November 15, 2019
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YEREVAN—The official opening ceremony of the Zoryan Institute and American University of Armenia Center for Oral History took place at the AUA’s AGBU Papazian Library on Wednesday. The Zoryan Institute has equipped the Center with copies of its earliest, largest, and most significant Armenian Genocide Oral History Archive.

“Housing the copies of the Zoryan Institute’s renowned Armenian Genocide Oral History Archive at the AGBU Papazian Library at AUA is a great honor for us. I am proud to say that AUA students will be involved in transcribing and translating the Armenian video interviews, making the resources available to the English-speaking community,” noted AUA President Dr. Karin Markides in her welcoming remarks.

Over the past decades, the digitized collection has served as a resource of utmost significance to scholars, researchers, students, and filmmakers. Through the Zoryan Institute and AUA Center for Oral History, scientists and students in Armenia will now have the unique opportunity to access about 800 video recordings of interviews with Genocide survivors. Besides researching the materials, AUA students have volunteered to transcribe the recordings in the collection, which will then be translated into English – increasing their usefulness.

“The impact of this project is far reaching, and this next step in partnership with AUA will allow the world’s largest Armenian Genocide oral history collection, and the stories of over 800 genocide survivors, to be known to a greater, broader audience of scholars and researchers,” noted President of the Zoryan Institute, Greg Sarkissian.

AUA students will be transcribing and translating video interviews with Genocide survivors at the Zoryan Institute and AUA Center for Oral History
AUA students will be transcribing and translating video interviews with Genocide survivors at the Zoryan Institute and AUA Center for Oral History

During the opening ceremony, the Zoryan Institute presented the animated movie trailer “Aurora Sunrise.” Prepared in partnership with the largest documentary film studio in Yerevan, Bars Media, the film tells the story of Aurora Mardiganian’s survival, using her personal testimony from the Institute’s Oral History Project of the 1980s. Through this animated film, Mardiganian’s 104-year-old story will be accessible to future generations perpetually.

Founded in 1991, the American University of Armenia is a private, independent university located in Yerevan, Armenia, affiliated with the University of California, and accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission in the United States. AUA provides local and international students with Western-style education through top-quality undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs, promotes research and innovation, encourages civic engagement and community service, and fosters democratic values.

Founded in 1982, the Zoryan Institute and its subsidiary, the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, is the first non-profit, international center devoted to the research and documentation of contemporary issues with a focus on Genocide, Diaspora and Homeland.

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