{"id":858,"date":"2017-09-01T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/?p=858"},"modified":"2024-06-14T18:42:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T18:42:15","slug":"usc-hosts-3rd-annual-innovate-armenia-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/armenian\/2017\/09\/01\/usc-hosts-3rd-annual-innovate-armenia-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"USC Hosts 3rd Annual INNOVATE ARMENIA Festival"},"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                            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 \n          <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span>Emil Sanamyan<\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">September 1, 2017<\/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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style=\"text-align: justify;\">ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, the USC Institute of Armenian Studies presents <a href=\"https:\/\/armenian.usc.edu\/event\/innovate-armenia-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">INNOVATE ARMENIA 2017<\/a>, a day of discovery, technology, music, food, wine, chess and lively conversation headlined by a pair of celebrity-journalist brothers and two 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The brothers are\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0columnist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/david-ignatius\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Ignatius<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Harvard Business Review<\/em>\u00a0editor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/about-hbr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adi Ignatius<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pulitzer Prize winners are poet\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/winners\/peter-balakian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Balakian<\/a>, of Colgate University, and novelist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/winners\/viet-thanh-nguyen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Viet Thanh Nguyen<\/a>, a USC professor of English and American studies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Vietnamese-born English literature professor headlining an Armenian diaspora festival may seem strange, but it goes to the heart of the USC Institute of Armenian Studies\u2019 outward-looking, internationalist philosophy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe take global Armenian questions and explore them as part of big world issues,\u201d says director Salpi Ghazarian. \u201cINNOVATE ARMENIA is the platform where we make the best of scholarship accessible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Armenian diaspora experience has lessons for everyone, according to David Kang, a featured speaker at Innovate Armenia 2016. A professor of international relations and East Asian languages, Kang heads USC\u2019s Korean Studies Institute. His\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GODAJBW7cCE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">presentation<\/a>\u00a0last year focused on the fluidity of hybrid identities. \u201cArmenians are going through very similar issues that Koreans have,\u201d he said in his talk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a city as multiethnic as Los Angeles, the immigrant experience is something most of us can relate to, Ghazarian says. \u201cAnyone, including those whose ancestors arrived on the Mayflower, will find something to pique their interest at Innovate Armenia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year\u2019s festival, which focused on digital humanities, drew 3,000 attendees and 20,000 more watched online. This year\u2019s program \u2014 with a focus on rethinking, relearning and reimagining identity, language, history and technology \u2014is expected to draw even larger crowds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Some highlights of the day\u2019s events, starting at 10 am:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 Back-to-back presentations in USC\u2019s Bovard Auditorium include a session on rearing global citizens, featuring the Ignatius brothers\u2014both prominent public intellectuals; and a session on new approaches to teaching the humanities, pairing literary icons Nguyen and Balakian. Other provocative speakers include Hovig Etyemezian, chief of the\u00a0Mosul operation for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees;\u00a0and Paul Berberian, CEO of Denver-based Sphero, maker of smartphone-controlled toy robots used in education.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 A panel discussion on teaching excellence features five Luys Scholars, recipients of an Armenian government program which supports the education of students of Armenian descent attending top universities in the United States and around the world. Another panel tackles the education of at-risk and immigrant youth to excel in Southern California schools, and pursue higher education in top universities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 A speaker stage in Alumni Park hosts fast-paced TED-style talks, with scientists, scholars and educators from across the Armenian diaspora, including Jet Propulsion Lab roboticist Richard Ohanian and Houston-based International Space Safety Foundation president Michael Kezirian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 More than a dozen exhibitor booths showcase innovators in STEM education, many from Armenia, including: Armath Labs and Real School, programs that bring after-school computer coding classes to youngsters across urban and rural Armenia; ed-tech company Dasaran Educational Program, creator of Armenia\u2019s first comprehensive e-learning portal; SoloLearn, a free, code-teaching app that took the grand prize in the 2017 Facebook Start App of the Year contest. Also attending the festival is the head of the Dilijan campus of United World College, a network of 14 mixed-nationality boarding schools; and teachers from the Yerevan-based Ayb School, who together with other colleagues attending from Armenia, churn out math and science Olympiad winners year after year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 On the entertainment stage, the music never stops with performances by eclectic Armenian artists from Vanadzor, Philadelphia, Paris, Yerevan and Glendale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2022 Interactive experiences include chess games with grandmaster Tatev Abrahamyan and international master Andranik Matikozyan; a maker space where scientists and festival-goers can collaborate hands-on to solve or observe engineering challenges; and complimentary tasting by Armenia Wine Company, maker of ancient Armenian wines using 21st-century viniculture techniques.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The festival coincides with \u201cUndeliverable: Postcards and Photos of Lives Interrupted,\u201d a unique installation in Doheny Library of vintage postcards of Armenian life in the pre-genocide years, interlaced with mind-bending contemporary imagery by Brazilian photographer Norair Chahinian. 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