Writer, Art Historian, Professor at University of California Davis @ucdavis. Guggenheim Fellow @GuggFellows 2020. Art, human rights, cultural heritage, genocide
California, USA
Joined May 2017
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The paperback edition of #TheMissingPages is out! The award-winning biography of a #Medieval #Armenian #manuscript that is at once art, sacred object, and #culturalheritage, the legal battle for its #restitution, and the #humanright to art.
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Keith Watenpaugh on his recent visit to Syria.
"In this second essay on the formation of historical narrative and memory in post-civil war Syria, I consider a banner draped across a hospital destroyed by Russian planes in Syria’s Palestinian Yarmouk Refugee Camp and the way it tells a complex and complicated story of resistance, complicity and the high-stakes problem with historical endings."
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Armenians in NYC mark genocide and Mayor Adams' ongoing silence
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Golden Thread and Hakawati NGO's "Azad (The Rabbit and the Wolf)" has such a complex structure I'm still trying to understand how it all worked, along with direction that seemed to marshal the storytelling capabilities of every corner of the stage. sfchronicle.com/entertainmen…
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The Vatican has been strangely silent about this Azerbaijan propaganda event after it blew up their face. Seems like something that the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches should have caught.
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My latest, just out today at the @NCRegister, looks at a crackpot Azerbaijan conference held at the Vatican, of all places, that has caused an uproar among Armenians. ncregister.com/commentaries/…
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Remembering my dad Mahfoud Bennoune on what would've been his 89th birthday
In these harrowing times, I'm inspired by the fact that he never gave up working for freedom dignity knowledge & humanity in his beloved #Algeria & the world
We shouldn't either
mahfoudbennoune.com
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Happening Now: prominent art historian & The Missing Pages author @HeghnarW delivers the Getty Research Institute Council’s 2024 Thomas and Barbara Gaehtgens Lecture — Survivor Objects and Captive Sites: Art and Cultural Heritage in Genocide. Watch live at youtube.com/live/8x1W_ATSck4…
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Amazing lecture by #professor Heghnar Zeitlan about #art during #ArmenianGenocide at #GettyCenter #LosAngeles
thanks for the shoutout, @UCDLandS !
looking forward to the conversation
#culturalheritage #museums #genocide #medievalart
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Looking forward to returning to the @GettyMuseum on 12/15 to give the Gaehtgens Lecture on #art and #culturalheritage in #Genocide. Reserve your free ticket through the link below. #medieval #manuscripts #museums #restitution #Armenian
getty.edu/visit/cal/events/e…
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RT @HeghnarW Survivor Objects and Captive Sites: Art and Cultural Heritage in Genocide Webcast, Dec 15 ow.ly/RfX350UiZm0 @GettyMuseum @TimLeBerre @UnescoTCHER @FAR_ICCROM @IAAS_Forum @IcomOfficiel @ICCROM @NEHGOV @AAMERS @US_IMLS
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🚨 Last Week to Apply 🚨
2025-2026 Graduate Internship Program
These paid internships are for current or recent graduate students seeking careers in the visual arts. Positions are available in areas such as curatorial, education, conservation, research, publications, web & new media, public programs, digital projects, & grantmaking.
Located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles or the Getty Villa in Malibu, all positions are full-time for 12 months from Sept. 8, 2025 through Aug. 28, 2026.
Apply by Nov. 4, 2024: gty.art/gettygrad
Learn about GCI-specific internships: gty.art/4gdZg5x
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unufak dün kitapçılara ulaştı. iki satır karalamış herkes gibi ben de okunsun, bir şeylere, birilerine dokunsun isterim ama benden çıktı artık, söz artık okuyanda. benim için artık joyce’a kulak verip bir kenarda tırnaklarımı kesme vakti. sonrası, zamanı gelince.
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Looking forward to returning to the @GettyMuseum on 12/15 to give the Gaehtgens Lecture on #art and #culturalheritage in #Genocide. Reserve your free ticket through the link below. #medieval #manuscripts #museums #restitution #Armenian
getty.edu/visit/cal/events/e…
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Applications are now LIVE for the Getty Post-Baccalaureate Conservation Internship program!
Students from underrepresented backgrounds enrolled in graduate degree programs related to museum conservation are encouraged to apply. Over the internship year, interns will spend six months in the conservation labs at Getty & six months at one of our partner museums in LA.
Apply by November 1: gty.art/postbacc
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Our story about a dire situation that we can see more and more in conflicts all over the world: occrp.org/en/feature/we-coul…
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One of the most shocking stories I've worked on: A pastor led hundreds of followers into a Kenyan forest. Not many came out alive.
For @NewYorker:
newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
