35th Anniversary Conference
\nMarch 26-28, 2009
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<\/p>\n
Session 1. Thursday, 1:00-2:30 p.m.
\nMedieval Literature and the Arts
\nTheo van Lint, Oxford University, Chair<\/p>\n
* Andrea Scala, University of Milan, “About the Name of the Latin
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Language in Classical Armenian”
\n* Robert Thomson, Oxford University, Emeritus, “Armenian Biblical
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Commentaries: The Present State of Research”
\n* Sona Haroutyunian, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, “Dante
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Alighieri and the Mekhitarist School of Translation”<\/p>\n
Session 2. Thursday, 2:30-4:00 p.m.
\nMedieval History and Culture
\nAnne Elizabeth Redgate, Newcastle University, Chair<\/p>\n
* Sergio La Porta, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Cultural
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Interaction and Cultural Strategies in Post-Seljuk Armenia”
\n* Sara Nur Yildiz, Bilgi University, Istanbul, “Competing for the
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Il-Khan’s Favor: Seljuk and Armenian Rivalry in Thirteenth Century
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mongol-Dominated Anatolia”
\n* Tom Sinclair, University of Cyprus, “Coins, Trade, and Cities in
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Greater Armenia during the Il-Khanid Period”<\/p>\n
Refreshments, 4:00-4:15 p.m.<\/p>\n
Session 3. Thursday, 4:15.6:30 p.m.
\nResearching the Contemporary Armenian Diaspora: Consolidating the
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Past, Situating the Future
\nKhachig T\u00f6l\u00f6lyan, Wesleyan University, Chair<\/p>\n
* Sossie Kasbarian, Graduate Institute of International and
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Development Studies, Geneva, “From Exile to Empowerment Reinvigorating
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Concept of Diaspora: The Armenian Case”
\n* Aida Boudjikanian, Montreal, “The Literature on the Armenian
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Diaspora in France and Canada”
\n* Susan Pattie, University College London, “Twenty-First Century
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Armenians: Is Anyone Paying Attention?”
\n* Anny Bakalian, City University of New York, “Still Alive and
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Thriving: Assimilation and Identity among Armenian Americans in the
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a021st Century”
\n* Nelida Boulghourdjian, University of Buenos Aires, “Migration
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Studies in Argentina: The Armenian Case”
\n* Discussant: Aram Yengoyan, University of California, Davis<\/p>\n
Friday, March 27, 2009, 1200 Rolfe Hall, 9 A.M. 9 P.M.<\/p>\n
Session 4. Friday, 9:00 a.m.
\nArmenian History as Connected History
\nHouri Berberian, California State University-Long Beach, Chair<\/p>\n
* Sebouh Aslanian, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, “From
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0‘Autonomous’ to ‘Interactive’ Histories: World History’s Challenge to
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Armenian Studies”
\n* Peter Cowe, UCLA, “The Armenian Oikoumene of the 11th to 14th
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Century in Search of a Holistic Discourse”
\n* Rachel Goshgarian, Zohrab Center, New York, “The Futuwwa and
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Armenian History in the Late Medieval ‘Islamicate’ World of Anatolia”
\n* Elyse Semerdjian, Whitman College, “Morality, Communalism, and the
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Armenians of Ottoman Aleppo”<\/p>\n
Refreshments, 11:00-11:15 a.m.<\/p>\n
Session 5. Friday, 11:15 a.m.1:00 p.m.
\nEconomy, Society, and Culture of Early Modern East Central Europe
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(14th 19th Centuries)
\nGeorge Bournoutian, Iona College, Chair<\/p>\n
* Andreas Helmedach, Center for the History and Culture of East
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Central Europe (GWZO), Leipzig, “Armenian Minorities as Actors in
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Early Modern Globalization”
\n* B\u00e1lint Kov\u00e1cs, Center for the History and Culture of East Central
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Europe (GWZO), Leipzig, “Interregional Cultural Relations of the
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Transylvanian Armenians in the 17th and 18th Centuries”
\n* Judit P\u00e1l, Babes-Bolyai-University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, “The
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Social and Economic History of the Armenians in Transylvania in the
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a018th and 19th Centuries”<\/p>\n
Lunch Recess, 1:00-1:45 p.m.<\/p>\n
Session 6. Friday, 1:45-3:45 p.m.
\nBetween Perversion and Representation: Sexual Allegories in Armenian Literature
\nRubina Peroomian, UCLA, Chair and Discussant<\/p>\n
* Tamar Boyadjian, UCLA, “The Female City and Its Textual Function:
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Grigor Tghay’s Lament over the City of Jerusalem”
\n* Talar Chahinian, UCLA, “The Crisis of Incest: Reconfiguring the
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Catastrophe in Orpuni’s ‘Vartsu Seniag, ‘ Sarafian’s Ishkhanuhin, and
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Shahnur’s ‘Buynuzlenere'”
\n* Myrna Douzjian, UCLA, “Challenging Social and Literary Norms:
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sexual Agency in Violet Grigorian’s Poetry”
\n* Lilit Keshishyan, UCLA, “Sexual Perversion as Political Allegory in
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Gurgen Khanjian’s Hivandanots”<\/p>\n
Session 7. Friday, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
\nNew Perspectives on The Armenian Genocide
\nGeorge Shirinian, Zoryan Institute, Chair<\/p>\n
* Taner Ak\u00e7am, Clark University, “Ottoman Documents and Genocidal
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Intent of the Union and Progress Party”
\n* Janet Klein, University of Akron, “The Kurds and the Armenian
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Genocide: Reflections on Historiography”
\n* Lerna Ekmekcio lu, New York University, “Approaching the Unlucky
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sister and Her Child: Sexual Violence as a Marker during and after the
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Armenian Genocide”
\n* Vahram Shemmassian, California State University-Northridge, “The
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Rescue of Captive Genocide Survivors, 1919-1921”<\/p>\n
Light Dinner Recess (on site), 6:00-7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
Session 8. Friday, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
\nContemporary Armenia
\nHovann Simonian, University of Southern California, Chair<\/p>\n
* Khatchik Der Ghougassian, Universidad de San Andr\u00e9s, Buenos Aires,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0“Market Fundamentalism, Economic Hardship, and Social Protest in Armenia”
\n* Konrad Siekierski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0“Nation and Faith, Past and Present: The Contemporary Discourse of the
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Armenian Apostolic Church in Armenia”
\n* Tamara Tonoyan, National Institute of Health, Yerevan, “HIV\/AIDS in
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Armenia: Migration as a Socio-Economic and Cultural Component of
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Women’s Risk Settings”
\n* Anahid Keshishian-Aramouni, UCLA, “Inknagir Magazine: Frivolous
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Iconoclasm or Marker of Artistic Liberty?”
\n* Gregory Areshian, UCLA, Pavel Avetisyan and Armine Hayrapetyan,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Yerevan, “Archaeology in
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Post-Soviet Armenia: New Discoveries, Problems, and Perspectives”<\/p>\n
Session 9. Saturday, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
\nDiscourse and Violence: Revisiting the Adana Massacres of 1909
\nRichard Hovannisian, UCLA, Chair<\/p>\n
* Ohannes Kili\u00e7dagi, Bilgi University, Istanbul, “Ottomanism among
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Anatolian Armenians after the 1908 Revolution”
\n* Bedross Der Matossian, MIT, “From Verbal to Physical Violence:
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ihsan Fikri’s Itidal and the Massacres of Adana in 1909”
\n* Rubina Peroomian, UCLA, “The Poetics of Violence in Literary
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Responses to the Adana Massacres”<\/p>\n
Session 10. Saturday, 10:30 a.m.12:45 p.m. The State of Armenian
\nStudies Chairs and Programs in the United States Marc Mamigonian,
\nNAASR, Chair (with comments on prehistory of Armenian programs)<\/p>\n
* Taner Ak\u00e7am, Clark University
\n* Kevork Bardakjian, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
\n* Peter Cowe, UCLA
\n* Richard Hrair Dekmejian, USC
\n* Barlow Der Mugrdechian, California State University-Fresno
\n* Roberta Ervine, St. Nersess Seminary
\n* Richard Hovannisian, UCLA
\n* Jirair Libaridian, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
\n* Christina Maranci, Tufts University
\n* Simon Payaslian, Boston University
\n* Ara Sanjian, Armenian Research Center, UM-Dearborn
\n* Vahram Shemmassian, California State University-Northridge<\/p>\n
Lunch Recess, 12:45-1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Session 11. Saturday, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
\nChurch Politics and Identity
\nAbraham Terian, St. Nersess Seminary, Chair<\/p>\n
* Paul Werth, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, “Rumors and Projects
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of Ecclesiastical Union: Armenians, Orthodoxy, and the Problem of
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Confessional Distinctions in Imperial Russia”
\n* Ara Sanjian, University of Michigan-Dearborn, “The British Foreign
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Office, the Church of England, and the Crisis in the Armenian Church
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0at Antelias, 1956-1963”
\n* Marlen Eordegian, Vanderbilt University, “Straddling Religion and
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Politics: The Case of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem”<\/p>\n
Session 12. Saturday, 3:15-5:45 p.m.
\nArmenians, World War II, and Repatriation
\nBarbara Merguerian, Armenian International Women’s Association, Chair<\/p>\n
* Vartan Matiossian, Hovnanian School, New Jersey, “‘White’
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Armenians, ‘Aryan’ Armenians: Combating Racial Views during the First
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Half of the 20th Century”
\n* Gregory Aftandilian, Washington, D.C., “World War II as an Enhancer
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of Armenian-American Second Generation Identity”
\n* Levon Thomassian, California State University-Northridge, “Summer of ’42”
\n* Astrig Atamian, National Institute of Oriental Languages and
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Civilizations, Paris, “Being an Armenian Communist in France during
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0the Cold War”
\n* Sevan Yousefian, UCLA, “The Formation of Soviet Armenian
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Immigration Policy: Diaspora Networks, Armenian Cadres, and the
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Postwar Repatriation Campaign”
\n* Joanne Laycock, University of Manchester, “‘Belongings’: People and
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Possessions in the Armenian Repatriations, 1947-1949”<\/p>\n
Concluding Comments and Discussion, 5:45-6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n
Architectural Exhibit by US Chapter of Armenian Architects Association<\/p>\n
Conference Sponsors: Society for Armenian Studies UCLA Center for Near
\nEastern Studies UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies USC
\nInstitute of Armenian Studies National Association for Armenian
\nStudies and Research<\/p>\n
and The Armenian Studies Programs of Armenian Center, Columbia
\nUniversity Armenian Research Center, University of Michigan-Dearborn
\nCalifornia State University-Fresno California State
\nUniversity-Northridge University of California, Los Angeles University
\nof Michigan-Ann Arbor<\/p>\n
Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Banquet, Taghlyan Center 1201 N. Vine Street,
\nHollywood, California, 7:30 p.m.
\nBanquet Sponsor: Armenian Educational Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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