The Future of Collective Memory
Reposted from the Aragats Foundation blog: On the future of collective memory in Armenia. The Aragats Foundation | The Future of Collective Memory.
View ArticleSkill and the Liberal Arts
A rising chorus of voices, mostly emanating from the Republican congress, has been stridently attacking research and teaching in the liberal arts. The assault on research has been led most persistently...
View ArticleThe Fate of Walls
From a recent op-ed: For five millennia, politicians have proposed walls like Trump’s. They don’t work. From The Washington Post, Sunday July 29, 2016. The opening: Donald Trump’s proposal to build a...
View ArticleThe Fate of Civilization
This semester I return to full time teaching at Cornell and am reviving my course on The Rise and Fall of “Civilization'”. The idea of the course is still as it has been in the past: to interrogate the...
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Walls…again
Walls just won’t go away. Here is a link to an interview I did with the America’s Democrats podcast on walls… then, and (mostly) now.
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Preventing the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh
Here is an opinion piece that Lori Khatchadourian and I just posted on Cornell’s Medium blog entitled “The US can help prevent the destruction of cultural heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh. Here’s how.” In...
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Introducing Caucasus Heritage Watch
Can the technologies of the global panopticon be used to deter states from programs of cultural genocide? Caucasus Heritage Watch, a new research program led by Lori Khatchadourian and myself (Cornell...
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CHW…Follow us on Twitter
Caucasus Heritage Watch is now on Twitter. Follow us to get updates and notification on the release of our monitoring reports.
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CHW Report #02
Caucasus Heritage Watch has released our September report on heritage monitoring in Nagorno-Karabakh. For up to the minute information, see our monitoring dashboard. And we are looking forward to...
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CHW Special Reports
Between September 2022 and April 2023, Caucasus Heritage Watch released two special forensic reports on cultural heritage caught up in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Special Report #1...
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