Scientists, musicians, entrepreneurs, humanitarians and public intellectuals gathered at University of Southern California for the INNOVATE ARMENIA festival, held on September 23, 2017.
The day-long program is a way to celebrate the Armenian diaspora in all its multicultural splendor, and revolved around rethinking, redefining, and reimagining identity, education, culture.
MIT Professors Lerna Ekmekçioğlu and Melissa Bilal speak about how past Armenian women spoke feminist. They are uncovering the lives and works of twelve prominent Armenian women intellectuals who lived in the Ottoman Empire.
More at armenian.usc.edu.
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