Conferences and Workshops
• the Fifth International Symposium on Armenian Art (Milan, Vicenza, Venice, Bologna, Florence, 1988). Proceedings were published in 1992 (p. 862 + illustrations).
• the conference Armenians on the Italian roads which took place in Turin, Genoa and Livorno form 8 to 11 March 1997.
• three international conferences during the Summer Course , respectively in 1990, 1995 and 2005 about questions regarding the use of the Armenian language in Armenia and in the Diaspora and on related topics, especially the Armenian Diasporan situation, relations between Armenia and Diaspora as well as other cultures and languages in the light of linguistic, anthropological, and sociological instances. These conferences have been widely dealt with in the chapter dedicated to the Summer Intensive Course.
• Meetings of specialists in Armenian studies who conduct their researches in Italy. These meetings are organized since 1997 and take place, generally, in Milan at the Hay Dun. The proceedings of those meetings are collected in fascicules entitled Rassegna degli Armenisti Italiani (9 fascicules published on paper and also available on-line ).
• a one-day meeting dedicated to Caucasian and Armenian studies, since 2007, organized with the collaboration of the Department of Eurasian Studies of Ca' Foscari University of Venice and ASIAC (Association for the Studies on Central Asia and Caucasus in Italy).

Research programmes
• An interdisciplinary research programme with the collaboration of the Institute of History of Academy of Sciences of Armenia about the Armenian Presence in Italy form the Middle Ages till our days. The results were published in the volume Ad Limina Italiae. Ar druns Italioy. In viaggio per l'Italia con mercanti e monaci armeni (Padova, 1996).
• The constitution of a scientific section named Padus-Araxes Armenistica, on a proposal by Dr. Aldo Ferrari, then PhD in Armenian Studies and now researcher at Ca' Foscari University, and Prof. Giusto Traina, then holder of the Chair in Roman History at the University of Perugia. This section addresses promotion of new cultural activities in the field of Armenian Studies, especially in Italy. The aim of this section is to coordinate the activities of numerous specialists who are interested in Armenian Studies in Italy and promote research programmes. This section coordinates also the publications of two editorial series: the first with a philological trend (Armeniaca Italica, 4 volumes published ) and the second with a historical and literary character (Carte Armene, 5 volumes published ).
• two international conferences. The first on the topic: Tiflis in the Nineteenth Century: History and Culture, organized with the sponsorship of INTAS, research programme of the European Union, and the second one on the topic: Society, Religion, Thought, and Sciences in Armenia. The latter comprised part of the workshops realized under the patronage of AIEA (Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes) within the project “Armenian Studies 2004”.

Exibitions
• Armenians in Italy, an exibition which took place in Venice and Padua between September 1990 and January 1991, organized by the Association Gaudium et Spes, under the High Patronage of the President of Italian Republic and sponsored, among others, by Regione Veneto .

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