ASOF Committee

Council on Armenian Cultural Heritage (ArCH)

In January 2024, ASOF formed a new committee named “Council for Cultural Heritage Preservation”. The group involves 20 prominent Armenian and non-Armenian scholars in the Arts and Humanities, led by Marina Djabbarzade. The group will use its international visibility to coordinate projects relating to cultural heritage in a manner to project effective Armenian soft power internationally.

Chair
Committee Members
Head of the Department of Contemporary Anthropological Studies, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
Head of the Geneva Music Conservatory, President of Association Ensemble Paul Klee (Bern), Vice-president of Foundation SIGG (Geneva), Board Member of Geneva Music High School, Board Member of FODAC Foundation (Geneva)
Rebar Professor of the Humanities, department of English, Colgate University, Pulitzer prize winning poet
SIREH Scientific and Strategic Director, Europa Nostra Council member
Director of the Chair of Art History and Theory at Yerevan State University
Heritage Management Consultant
U. of Salzburg, Armenian Studies Division (head); Center for the Study of the Christian East (director); Senior scientist in Biblical Studies and Church History; Docent in General and Applied Linguistics; Blue Shield Armenia & Austria; Adjunct Prof. in Interdisciplinary Armenian Cultural Heritage Studies, Inst. of Archaeology and Ethnography; Etchmiadzin's Office for Artsakh Cultural and Spiritual Heritage Issues.
Oscar-nominated writer and director (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
Professor of Art History, University of California, Davis
CEO Hovnanian International, Founding Board Member Yerevan Biennial Arts Foundation, Founder and Creative Director Treasures of Armenia, Founding Director of the Former Armenian Tourism Development Agency
Deputy minister, Ministry Of Education, Science, Culture And Sports
Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Director of the Institut National du Patrimoine (National Institute for Heritage) under the French Ministry of Culture
Central European University
Deputy chairman of Urban development committee
J. R. Herbert Boone Chair in Humanities and Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Task Forces set up by committee
Projects/Programs
ArCH: Armenian Cultural Heritage Preservation