{"id":8065,"date":"2026-10-01T18:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T18:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/?p=8065"},"modified":"2026-10-21T22:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:38:07","slug":"announcing-bambas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/2026\/10\/01\/announcing-bambas\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Bambas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2026\/10\/Bambas_banners_2000x1150-768x432.png\"\n          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\n          <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span>Dr. Shushan Karapetian <\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">October 1, 2026<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Link\">\n            <span class=\"a2a_svg a2a_s__default a2a_s_copy_link\">\n              <svg height=\"19\" viewBox=\"0 0 19 19\" width=\"19\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m7.43475275 9.52380952-2.17490843 2.26076008c-1.08745421 1.058837-1.68841575 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Each newsletter begins small, with a word, an expression, a linguistic puzzle, and follows it down many possible threads: into history, migration, dialect, humor, family, or the wonderfully complicated ways Armenians actually speak.<\/p>\n<p><em>BamBas<\/em> is not a language lesson. It is for fluent speakers and non-speakers, Eastern and Western Armenian speakers, heritage speakers, and anyone simply curious about Armenian. We will move through the Armenian of Yerevan and Beirut, Tehran and Artsakh, Istanbul and Los Angeles; through dictionaries and kitchens, classrooms and family conversations. Sometimes a single word can carry a whole geography, a history of migration, or a way of seeing the world.<\/p>\n<p>At the Institute, we have made language an important part of how we connect scholarship with broader publics. <a title=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/loS6eMYLvZs?e=60e91503f0&amp;c2id=452a55208a0090c0d27ebbccf9897fd8__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!vbuk5wxs4iqhF-ZfHWz80G-vEIw8paDdyJ_CBTg-jdtKfZ3fru3hH6jZxmLdNLCoxm_yoaRT5FTOn-QwFIFn$\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/loS6eMYLvZs?e=60e91503f0&amp;c2id=452a55208a0090c0d27ebbccf9897fd8__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!vbuk5wxs4iqhF-ZfHWz80G-vEIw8paDdyJ_CBTg-jdtKfZ3fru3hH6jZxmLdNLCoxm_yoaRT5FTOn-QwFIFn$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Language Therapy with Dr. K<\/em><\/a>, including our special <a title=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/gVjcy_MyGuB?e=60e91503f0&amp;c2id=452a55208a0090c0d27ebbccf9897fd8__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!vbuk5wxs4iqhF-ZfHWz80G-vEIw8paDdyJ_CBTg-jdtKfZ3fru3hH6jZxmLdNLCoxm_yoaRT5FTOn84zSNG3$\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/gVjcy_MyGuB?e=60e91503f0&amp;c2id=452a55208a0090c0d27ebbccf9897fd8__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!vbuk5wxs4iqhF-ZfHWz80G-vEIw8paDdyJ_CBTg-jdtKfZ3fru3hH6jZxmLdNLCoxm_yoaRT5FTOn84zSNG3$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armenian-language season<\/a> with Dr. Hrach Martirosyan, and our <a title=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/10nsM7zN4yI?e=60e91503f0&amp;c2id=452a55208a0090c0d27ebbccf9897fd8__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!vbuk5wxs4iqhF-ZfHWz80G-vEIw8paDdyJ_CBTg-jdtKfZ3fru3hH6jZxmLdNLCoxm_yoaRT5FTOn1HQ02X4$\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/10nsM7zN4yI?e=60e91503f0&amp;c2id=452a55208a0090c0d27ebbccf9897fd8__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!vbuk5wxs4iqhF-ZfHWz80G-vEIw8paDdyJ_CBTg-jdtKfZ3fru3hH6jZxmLdNLCoxm_yoaRT5FTOn1HQ02X4$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Word of the Day<\/em><\/a> series invite us to look more closely at language and ask questions we may never have thought to ask. <em>BamBas <\/em>grows out of that same commitment, but with its own playful premise: one small discovery at a time.<\/p>\n<p>I conceived <em>BamBas<\/em> as a space for exactly this kind of curiosity and am delighted to be collaborating with linguistic anthropologist Dr. Lilit Ghazaryan on the research and writing of each installment. Together with our Institute team, we shape each story for the newsletter, original visual graphics, and social media.<\/p>\n<p>And the name <em>BamBas<\/em>? There is a story there, too.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll have to wait for Issue 2.<\/p>\n<p>For now, read, discover, share, and tell us how <em>you<\/em> say it. Look for the first issue in your inbox, next week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is the spirit behind BamBas: language un(dis)covered, a new monthly series from the USC Dornsife Institute of Armenian Studies. 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