The American University of Armenia (AUA) Political Science and International Affairs (PSIA) Program Chair Dr. Vahram Ter-Matevosyan presented his recent book “Turkey, Kemalism and the Soviet Union: Problems of Modernization Ideology and Interpretation.” The book was released by Palgrave Macmillan.

The French strategist, the researcher of international conflict analysis Gerard Shalian delivered a lecture in the Paleans hall of YSU.

Currently the energy supply mainly depends on fossil fuels, which leads to a great extent for greenhouse gas emissions and global temperature increase. Another problem is the generation of different industrial and agricultural waste products in huge amounts. Effective utilization of these products could lead both to waste treatment and cost-effective energy production.

A conference dedicated to Hovhannes Tumanyan’s 150th anniversary was held today at the faculty of Armenian Philology. The conference was organized by the SSS of the Faculty of Philology.

The lecture entitled “The modern relationship between Russia and Great Britain” was delivered today at the Faculty of International Relations of YSU.

The meeting with the representative of “Dassault systems” company was held today in the Session hall of YSU Academic Council.

On April 21, the delegation of YSU Faculty of Economics and Management left for the USA with a two-week visit to discuss the possibilities of cooperation with San Jose State University.

An expanded session of Scientific and Research Institute of Physics of the Faculty of Physics was held in the Conference Hall of YSU. The agenda involved two issues.

Today, at the conference hall of YSU Academic Council, the director of the Lepsiushaus Rolf Hosfeld presented a report on ‘’The Catharsis of Johannes Lepsius in Summer 1915’’.

Doctor Svante Lundgren, a professor of the Center of Middle East Studies at the Lund University (Sweden), delivered a series of lectures at YSU Faculty of Oriental Studies on April 8-18.