A panel discussion during a previous INNOVATE ARMENIA event at USC
An upbeat, outside-the-box festival explores what it means to be Armenian in the 21st century and celebrates innovation and innovators
LOS ANGELES””On Saturday, September 23, the USC Institute of Armenian Studies presents INNOVATE ARMENIA 2017, 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.
The brothers are Washington Post columnist David Ignatius and Harvard Business Review editor Adi Ignatius.
The Pulitzer Prize winners are poet Peter Balakian, of Colgate University, and novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, a USC professor of English and American studies.
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’ outward-looking, internationalist philosophy.
“We take global Armenian questions and explore them as part of big world issues,”
