Feminist Armenian Research Collective's (FemARC) Third Workshop, organized by Melissa Bilal, Promise Chair in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture at UCLA and Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart Professor of History at MIT.

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 to Wednesday, May 27, 2026
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Schoenberg Music Building, Green Room

Join us for the Feminist Armenian Research Collective’s (FemARC) Third Workshop, New Directions in Music, Arts, and Performance Studies, which will be held at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s Schoenberg Music Building on May 26–27, 2026. This workshop was organized by Melissa Bilal, Promise Chair in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture at UCLA and Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart Professor of History at MIT.

On May 26th, panels will run all day in the Green Room from 9:30 am to 6:00 pm, followed by an album-launch concert “Piano Works of Koharik Gazarossian” by Nare Karoyan at Schoenberg Hall. 

The workshop’s concluding discussion session will take place on May 27th (10:00 am – 11:30 am) in the Green Room.

Sponsor(s): Department of Ethnomusicology, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Center for the Study of Women, UCI Center for Armenian Studies