From January 27 to 28, 2024, Professor Kristine Kostikyan, the leading researcher of Matenadaran and Doctor of Historical Sciences, attended an International workshop titled “Tolerance and Intolerance in the Early Modern World” at the University of Tokyo. She presented a report on ” Challenges Faced by the Armenian Christians under Shiite Islamic Rule in the Early Modern Period: Aspects of Religion and Identity”.
Scientists from Japan, France, and Great Britain attended the workshop, and it was decided to publish the presented reports in a separate collection after processing them.
You can find the program of the workshop at the following link. 
研究会・講演会｜日本中東学会 (james1985.org)
On January 31, Kristine Kostikyan delivered a lecture at Kyoto University on “Some Peculiarities in the Activities of the Armenian Merchants in the 17th-18th Centuries considered on the basis of Persian Documents”.
You can find more information about the lecture at the following link.
第65回羽田記念館定例講演会 (kyoto-u.ac.jp)