Identity and Values
The program is about worldview issues. The main topics include personal and collective identity, epistemology, and axiology. The purpose of the program is to promote conceptual thinking, shape community-building culture, and spread the dialogue about values in Armenia and the Diaspora.
Culture and Anti-culture
Culture and civilization. Culture as process; bearers and creators of culture. Global, national and Christian culture. Cultural starvation and lost of identity. Anti-culture and subculture. Modern challenges and the prospects of the antagonism between culture and anti-culture.
- Speaker: Karine Yaralyan
- Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan
National Scars
Events that leave scars on the psychology of nation: genocide, forced migration, massacre, war. Impacts on the national dignity. Threats of losing national identity: vanishing, assimilation, religious conversion. Armenian Genocide in the context of global history. How should we remember the Genocide? Having been subjected to genocide, yet not backing down on national identity and values. Trauma recovery mechanisms. The need of changing the national psychology.
- Speaker: Shushan Khachatryan
- Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan
Truth
Truth as a core value. Rhetorical and philosophical question “What is truth.” Search for the truth as a way of attaining knowledge; limitedness of human cognition and its levels. The words of Christ: “I am the Truth.” The hidden and at the same time revelatory character of the truth. The need for development of independent thinking in the education system instead of enforcing formulated “truths.”
Speaker: Fr. Mesrop Aramian
Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan
Introduction
The necessity of this project and social processes behind it. Thematic elements of the radio program. Core values. National and human values. The uniqueness of Armenian identity. Values as factors of building human identity. National interests and ideology. Transmitting the national identity and values as an educational program.
- Speaker: Fr. Mesrop Aramian
- Host: Deacon Vardan Aslanyan