14th Annual Graduate Colloquium in Armenian Studies Program UCLA, Royce Hall, Room 314, Friday, February 12, 2016
Welcome
3:00PM–4:00PM Guest Lecture Zara Pogossian Center for Religious Studies at Ruhr-Universität-Bochum
4:10PM-4:30PM Coffee/Tea Break
4:35PM–4:50PM Opening Remarks Ani Der Grigorian • Director of 2016 Undergraduate Colloquium in Armenian Studies Department of Anthropology and International Development Studies University of California at Los Angeles Dr. S. Peter Cowe • Armenian Studies Professor & Narekatsi Chair University of California at Los Angeles
PANEL 1• 19th Century Literature, Media, & Identity |
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Chair: Ceyda Steele • Near Eastern Languages and Cultures University of California at Los Angeles |
10:10AM–10:30AM |
Lusine Sargasyan • Yerevan State University (Armenia) |
10:30AM–10:50AM |
MarietaBazinyan• Yerevan State University (Armenia)"Constructing a Nation: Identity Markers of Armenians According to Mshak Periodical (1872-1892)” |
10:50AM–11:00AM |
Discussion |
PANEL 2 • Early 20th Century Ottoman-Armenian
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Chair: SonaTajiryan• Department of History University of California at Los Angeles |
11:00AM–11:20AM |
David Leupold• Humboldt-Universitätzu Berlin (Germany) “Van &Bitlis between Western Armenia and Northern Kurdistan – Memory, Collective Violence and Collectivity” |
11:20AM-11:40AM |
Ari Sekeryan• University of Oxford (UK) “The Armenian Community at the End of the Ottoman Empire: Reflections in the Armenian press 1918-1923” |
11:40AM–11:50AM |
Discussion |
11:50AM–12:00PM |
Coffee/Tea Break |
PANEL 3• Medieval Armenian Literature
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Chair: Jesse Arlen• Near Eastern Languages and Cultures University of California at Los Angeles |
12:00AM–12:20PM |
Mari Mamyan• Yerevan State University (Armenia) “The Apocryphal “Gospel of Nicodemus” in Medieval Armenia” |
12:20PM–12:40PM |
Erin Piñon• Southern Methodist University (US) “Lions and Tigers and Trdat—Oh My! Zoomorphic Figures in the Armenian Christianization Myth” |
12:40PM–12:50PM |
Discussion |
12:50PM–2:20PM |
Lunch |
PANEL 4• Medieval Armenian Art
2:20PM–2:40PM |
Chair: Marine Aykazyan French and Francophone Studies University of California at Los Angeles GoharGrigoryan• University of Fribourg (Switzerland) “Changes in Demonstration of Power as Outcome of a New Political Situation: Study on the Images of the First Three Kings of the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia (12th - 13th centuries)” |
2:40PM–3:00PM |
PiruzaHayrapetyan• Central European University (Hungary) “The Armenian Ganj-Hymn: an “Originally Armenian” or a “Borrowed” Genre - Reshaping the Debate” |
3:00PM–3:10PM |
Discussion |
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Chair: Christine Thomassian• Near Eastern Languages and Cultures University of California at Los Angeles |
3:40PM–4:00PM |
Anna Gevorgyan• Yerevan State University (Armenia) “Maro the Fighter”: How Soviet Armenian Media was Creating “New Soviet Women” |
4:00PM–4:20PM |
NarineJallatyan• Department of Comparative Literature University of California at Los Angeles “Island languages and linguistic islands: Diasporic poetry of VaheOshagan and EdouardGlissant” |
4:20PM–4:30PM |
Discussion |
4:30PM–4:50PM |
Coffee/Tea Break |
PANEL 5 • Prehistory/Archaeology
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Chair: Kristine Martirosyan-Olshansky Department of Archaeology University of California at Los Angeles |
3:10PM–3:30PM |
Levon Aghikyan• Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of National Academy of Armenia (Armenia) “The First Chalcolithic Period Burials in Armenia.” |
3:35PM–3:40PM |
Discussion |
PANEL 6 •Literature and Media in the 20th Century
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Chair: Christine Thomassian• Near Eastern Languages and Cultures University of California at Los Angeles |
3:40PM–4:00PM |
Anna Gevorgyan• Yerevan State University (Armenia) “Maro the Fighter”: How Soviet Armenian Media was Creating “New Soviet Women” |
4:00PM–4:20PM |
NarineJallatyan• Department of Comparative Literature University of California at Los Angeles “Island languages and linguistic islands: Diasporic poetry of VaheOshagan and EdouardGlissant” |
4:20PM–4:30PM |
Discussion |
4:30PM–4:50PM |
Coffee/Tea Break |
PANEL 7 • Contemporary Armenian Issues in Southern Caucasia
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Chair: AnatoliiTokmantcev• Near Eastern Languages and Cultures University of California at Los Angeles |
4:50PM–5:10PM |
Elli Ponomareva• Department of Anthropology European University at St. Petersburg (Russia) “Language Situation in the Armenian Community of Tbilisi” |
PANEL 7Continues• Contemporary Armenian Issues in Southern Caucasia
5:10PM–5:30PM |
Babken Der Griogiran• London School of Economics (UK) “Caucusing in the Caucasus: Redistributive Conflict as Emancipatory Civil Society Development in Armenia” |
5:30PM-5:50PM |
Gary Glass Jr. University of Missouri (US) “The differential Success of Rural Armenian Families in the Transition to a Market Economy as a Result of their Social Helping Networks” |
5:50PM–6:00PM |
Discussion |
6:00PM–6:30PM |
Guest Speaker • Professor Zara Pogossian Center for Religious Studies at RuhrUniversitätBochum
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Reception |
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6:30PM–8:00PM |
Reception, Royce Hall 306 |