Conference Program - Armenians and the Cold War, 1-3 April 2016, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
“ARMENIANS AND THE COLD WAR”
April 1-3, 2016
Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn

FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016

5:00-6:30 pm

Meet & Greet with the Participants of the Conference

6:30-7:00 pm

Words of Welcome

1. Representative of the University of Michigan-Dearborn administration
2. Asbed Kotchikian, The Armenian Review
3. Gregory Aftandilian, National Association for Armenian Studies & Research

7:00-7:30 pm

PANEL V: Armenians: Between a Soviet Homeland and the Diaspora

Chair: Anush Hovhannisyan, Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia

1. Nélida Boulgourdjian, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina, “Background of Soviet Policy Toward the Armenian Diaspora in the Early Cold War: The Case of the Armenian Diaspora in France and Argentina (1930-1950)”
2. Gevorg Petrosyan, Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia, “The Impact of the Cold War and Turkish-Soviet Relations on Armenians in Turkey and Their Relations with Soviet Armenia (1945-1964)”

Discussant: Eldad Ben-Aharon, Royal Holloway, University of London

6:30-9:00 pm

Reception

SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2016

10:00 am-12:00 pm

PANEL VI: The Armenian “Cold War” in the Arab World from 1945 to 1970

Chair: Levon Chorbajian, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

1. Hratch Tchilingirian, University of Oxford, “The Armenian Church During the Cold War Era and the Chasm Between Ejmiatsin and Antelias”
2. James Stocker, Trinity Washington University, “An Opportunity to Strike a Blow? The United States and the Struggle in the Armenian Apostolic Church, 1956-1963”
3. Khatchig Mouradian, Rutgers University, “The Cold War of Genocide: April 24 Editorials in the Lebanese-Armenian Party Political Press, 1945-1970”

Discussant: Benjamin F. Alexander, New York City College of Technology (CUNY)

12:00-12:15 pm

Coffee Break

12:15-1:00 pm

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION I: The Chronologies of Global Cold War and the Armenian “Cold War” Compared

Opening remarks: Ara Sanjian, University of Michigan-Dearborn

1:00-2:30 pm

Lunch

2:30-3:45 pm

PANEL VII: The Middle East in the 1970s and ’80s: The Era of ASALA and JCAG

Chair: Nélida Boulgourdjian, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina

1. Eldad Ben Aharon, Royal Holloway, University of London, “The Cold War and Mid-East Political Violence: An Israeli-American-TurkishAlliance?”
2. Emre Can Daglioglu, Clark University, “Re-Shaped Identity of Armenians in Turkey Under the Conditions of the Cold War”

Discussant: Vahe Sahakyan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3:45-4:00 pm

Coffee Break

4:00-5:15

PANEL VIII: Soviet Armenian Historiography and the Cold War

Chair: Tamar Boyadjian, Michigan State University

1. Samvel Grigoryan, Independent historian, Moscow, “T‘agawor, Korol‘ or Czar: The Impact of Soviet-Western Relations on the Historiography of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia”
2. Anush Hovhannisyan, Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia, “Remembering the Genocide in SovietArmenia During the Cold War Era: ‘Private Stories’”

Discussant: Richard G. Hovannisian, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, and Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California

5:15-5:30

Coffee Break

5:30-6:45

PANEL IX: Arts and Popular Culture during the Armenian “Cold War”

Panel chair: Sally Howell, University of Michigan-Dearborn

1. Neery Melkonian, Independent researcher, critic and curator, New York City, “A Third Space: Armenian Diaspora Artists and the Cold War”
2. Tigran Matosyan, American University of Armenia, “Sheepskin Vests in Yerevan: The Story of Soviet Armenian Hippies”

Discussant: Kevork Bardakjian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

6:45-7:00

Coffee Break

7:00-8:00

ROUNDTABLE II: The Legacy of the Armenian “Cold War” Today; Recommendations for Future Research

Opening remarks: Hratch Tchilingirian, University of Oxford