On May 28 the second day of the 2017 Aurora Dialogues took place at the Matenadaran – the Repository of Ancient Manuscripts, in Yerevan, Armenia. Carnegie Corporation President and Aurora Humanitarian Initiative Co-Founder Dr. Vartan Gregorian, said in his introduction, “This is a house of learning, a treasury house of memory.”

“We are meeting in the shadow of Mount Ararat, which is a symbol of Armenian durability because Armenians believe that Noah’s Arc came up on Mount Ararat—the first migratory people came up in Armenia, so Armenia is the first instance of migration...but what is important here is that we’ve chosen to meet in the Matenadaran because of its historical significance,” he continued.