Within the scope of the KarDes: Multicultural Memory Tours Guide mobile application project, the launch event for the ‘Istanbul's Water Heritage Tour,’ was held on Wednesday, February 19th at the Anarad Hığutyun Building. 

As part of the KarDes: Multicultural Memory Tours Guide mobile application project, the launch event of the "Istanbul’s Water Heritage Tour", prepared in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute in Turkey and Radboud University, with the support of Vrije University, will take place on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, at the Hrant Dink Foundation Havak Hall.

On Monday, November 4, 2024 at 18.00 in the Havak Hall of Anarad Hığutyun Building, we brought experts who carry out important works on memorialization and learning practices.

On November 23, 2024, a panel discussion at the Anarad Hığutyun Building explored the intricate politics of archives and their complex relationship with social and individual memories.

The sixth of the panel series organized within the scope of the project, ‘Utilizing Digital Technology for Social Cohesion, Positive Messaging and Peace by Boosting Collaboration, Exchange and Solidarity,’ will be held on Tuesday, 10 September 2024, at the Hrant Dink Foundation’s Havak Hall.

You are invited to a unique conversation series exploring the themes of 'discovery, reunion, and journey to roots.' In these conversations to be held on June 20 and June 23, we will explore the intertwined histories of identity, belonging, and displacement.

In the talk held on June 23, 2025, at the Havak Hall of the Anarad Higutyun Building, we listened to the unique journey of Carolyn Rapkievian, who lives in the United States, as she traveled with her sister to the villages of their grandfather Hovaness (John) Okoomian.

On July 3, 2025, the HDF Archive Team held a meeting in the Havak Hall of the Anarad Hığutyun Building with representatives of Armenian foundations in Istanbul to share information about the Foundation's archival work.

On November 13, 2025, California College of the Arts Professor Emerita Deborah reflected on her deeply personal journey into family history and cultural memory through textiles.

In this talk, Marianna Hovhannisyan situates the concept of "archive" as a theoretical inquiry and a site of contested knowledge, examining how Armenian cultural production is defined by fragmentations and archival absences.

In his talk for the “Ancestral Journeys” series on November 27, 2025, Paul Vartan Sookiasian shared the story of his lifelong search for his family’s past and his efforts to reconstruct the lost world of his ancestors from pre-1915 Arapgir.

The fifth of the panel series organized within the scope of the project, ‘Utilizing Digital Technology for Social Cohesion, Positive Messaging and Peace by Boosting Collaboration, Exchange and Solidarity,’ will be held on Wednesday, 3 April 2024, at the Hrant Dink Foundation’s Havak Hall.

As part of the series organized within the scope of the project “Utilizing Digital Technology for Social Cohesion, Positive Messaging and Peace by Boosting Collaboration, Exchange and Solidarity”, the fourth panel titled “Algorithmic Design in the Context of Human Rights'' took place on Friday, November 10, 2023 at the Hrant Dink Foundation.

The fourth of the panel series organized within the scope of the project, “Utilizing Digital Technology for Social Cohesion, Positive Messaging and Peace by Boosting Collaboration, Exchange and Solidarity”, will be held.

The panel titled “Relation of Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation” took place on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at the Hrant Dink Foundation’s Havak Hall.