Alin K. Gregorian

The MFA, founded in 1870, is the fifth largest museum in the US and the 20th largest in the world. Terjanian may not be a dyed-in-the-wool Bostonian, yet his reverence for the city which is home to the MFA and its historic tradition of support of cultural institutions by the city’s business and social elite, was palpable. He also stressed that the museum should shrug off any stuffy sensibilities and should instead be a living institution. “What makes the MFA special is in part where it is.

Also speaking was Argine Harutyunyan, a freshman at Harvard. Like Shahverdyan, she tied what had happened 111 years ago to what happened to her people in Artsakh. Members of the clergy at the event (David Medzorian photo) “It was a deliberate and systematic war on culture, identity and memory.

WATERTOWN/PARIS — Earlier this year, a new organization came to be in Armenia, called the International Observatory for Democracy in Armenia (IODA), an independent, ad hoc monitoring body which has tasked itself with observing, documenting, and reporting on political and institutional developments before the June 7 parliamentary elections in Armenia. The pre-election period has made waves with opposition figures being rounded up by the authorities.