The Artsakh Heritage Committee was founded by the Western Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church of North America in the aftermath of the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war and consists of scholars, experts, clergymen, and other key stakeholders dedicated to the cause of safeguarding Armenian cultural heritage under Azerbaijan’s newfound control.

ARTSAKH CULTURAL PRESERVATION COMMITTEE

  • H.E Archbishop Hovnan Derderian

    Primate of the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America

  • Archbisop Vicken Aykazian

    Ecumenical Director and Diocesan Legate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America

  • Bishop Hovakim Manukyan

    Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church in the United Kingdom and Ireland

  • Very Rev. Fr. Pakrad Berjekian

    Parish Priest of the St. John Garabed Armenian Apostolic Church of San Diego

  • Very Rev. Fr. Garegin Hambardzumyan

    Head of Office for Artsakh Spiritual-Cultural Heritage Issues, RA

    *Staff of the Office for Artsakh Spiritual-Cultural Heritage Issues

  • Anush Khurshudyan

    Coordinator of the Office for Artsakh Spiritual-Cultural Heritage Issues

    *Staff of the Office for Artsakh Spiritual-Cultural Heritage Issues

  • Robert Avetisian

    Permanent Representative of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic to the United States

  • Dr. Mary Papazian

    President of San José State University, USA

  • Dr. Christina Maranci

    Professor at Tufts University, Art History Department, USA

  • Dr. Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh

    Professor of Art History, Department of Art and Art History, University of California, Davis, USA

  • Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian

    Berberian Coordinator of the Armenian Studies Program

    California State University, Fresno

  • Dr. Sergio La Porta

    Haig and Isabel Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies

    Interim Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities

    California State University, Fresno

  • Dr. Rachel Goshgarian

    Associate Professor, Department of History, Lafayette College, Easton, USA

  • Simon Maghakyan

    Visiting Scholar at Tufts University and Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Colorado Denver, USA

  • Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian

    Associate of Faculty of Oriental Studies

    University of Oxford

  • Dr. Hagop Panossian

    Analysis Research & Planning for Armenia, President

  • Dr. Jasmine Dum-Tragut

    Director of the Center for the Study of the Christian East at the University of Salzburg, Austria

  • Jora Manoucherian

    Research on Armenian Architecture , President

  • Norayr Poghosyan

    Doctor of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of YSU

  • Armineh Pogosian

    United Kingdom

  • Ms. Malvine Hakobyan

    Coordinator-Secretary of the Office for Artsakh Spiritual-Cultural Heritage Issues

    *Staff of the Office for Artsakh Spiritual-Cultural Heritage Issues

  • Conference Sponsors

    The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

  • Conference Organizers

    Artsakh Cultural Preservation Committee

  • Participating Organizations

    Western Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church of North America

    Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America

    Artsakh Cultural Heritage Office Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

    Diocese of the Armenian Church of the United Kingdom and Ireland

    Pontifical Legation of The Western Europe and Sweden

  • Partner Organizations

    Armenian Bar Association

    Save Аrmenian Мonuments

    RAA, Research on Armenian Architecture