In this episode of “Examining the Context” podcast, Dr. Nerses Kopalyan notes that public discourse in Armenia incorrectly attempts to situate the country’s security context within the larger international constellation. He argues that a more cogent and empirically substantive approach can be established through the concept of Regional Security Complex Theory.
The oeuvre of photographer Avetik Hovhannisyan (1960-1988) is unknown to the wider public, yet Hovhannisyan’s first exhibition, curated by Vigen Galstyan for the EVN Media Festival, revealed the remarkable documentary significance of his tragically short-lived career. With the onset of “Perestroika” and the Karabakh Freedom Movement, the young photographer was on the streets of Yerevan everyday. His extensive archive consists of over a thousand negatives and prints depicting this tumultuous period in Soviet and Armenian history.
Khachatur Gharibyan, the co-founder and CTO of NolanAI, joins us to discuss how their AI platform assists screenwriters, producers, and directors in the pre-production phase of filmmaking. We discussed how their product utilizes AI to assist in the creative process of writing screenplays. Additionally, it generates images of scenes based on the script to aid in visualizing the story even before filming starts. Finally, we had an engaging conversation about the capabilities of AI systems to be creative and the origins of creativity itself.
In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of July 5: Hungary drops its veto on EPF funding to Armenia; Armenia in talks with the U.S. about the construction of a new nuclear plant; Freedom House publishes an extensive report chronicling the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians.
EVN Report երրորդ մեդիափառատոնի շրջանակում, մարդկային պատմությունների երբևէ ամենամեծ հավաքածուն ձայնագրած հանրահայտ Story Corpsի հետ որոշեցինք գրանցել մեր ժամանակների վկայի ձայնը, անհատական պատումը… Քանի որ պատմությունը սովորաբար արձանագրում են ժամանակագրական կարգով՝ գրանցելով կամ մեկնաբանելով իրադարձություններ եւ փաստեր, մարդկային ձայնը հաճախ կորչում է: Տարբեր մասնագիտությունների և տարիքի անձանց հետ զրուցեցիք անկախության, հայրեինիքի, ամենաուրախ և ամենատխուր պահերի և մշակույթի մասին։
An homage to the rich, yet overlooked history of Armenian editorial illustrations, the “Archive-mine” exhibition, curated by Shamiram Khachatryan & EVN Report and on display during the EVN Media Festival this year, revealed works published in more than a dozen different Armenian periodicals in the last century, from Cairo to Istanbul, London to Tehran, Tbilisi and Yerevan. They are a testament to not only the role of the media to hold up a mirror to its readers but of the media’s innate predisposition to witness and relay its own times.
Հայաստանում ակադեմիական քաղաք կառուցելու հավակնոտ նախաձեռնությանը, ծրագրի հնարավորություններին ու խնդիրներին անդրադարձող հոդվածի ՁայնաԳիրը։
In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of June 28: Security Council Secretary Armen Grigoryan says Russia took Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenians, returned it to Azerbaijan and left; Armenia proposes joint ceasefire investigation mechanism to Azerbaijan; a shareholder of the Zangezur Copper Molybdenum Combine sues the Armenian Government.
Hayk Margaryan, a digital transformation consultant, joins us to discuss how Armenian businesses are adopting digital tools to increase productivity. Hayk shared with us why digital transformation, through the adoption of tools such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems help boost business productivity, which leads to economic growth. Lastly, Hayk emphasized the importance of strong management in ensuring that any new system or tool effectively addresses real business problems.
In EVN Report’s news roundup for the week of June 21: A new Armenia-France Arms deal displeases Azerbaijan and Russia; Armenia recognizes the state of Palestine; Armenia attends the Ukraine Peace Summit in Switzerland, Foreign Minister Mizoyan meets a Belarussian opposition leader but shuns the CSTO session of the Foreign Ministers in Kazakhstan․
EVN Report’s mission is to empower Armenia, inspire the diaspora and inform the world through sound, credible and fact-based reporting and commentary. Our goal is to increase public trust in the media. EVN Report is the media arm of EVN News Foundation registered in the Republic of Armenia in 2017.
