Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) 50th Anniversary Conference Program
When:
Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 8:00a -
10:00p
Sunday, Sep 15, 2024 8:00a -
10:00p
Where:
NAASR Vartan Gregorian Building
395 Concord Avenue
Belmont, MA 02478
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
History, Lectures & Conferences
DAY THREE
Sunday, September 15, 2024
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
395 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA 02478
Breakfast (8:00-9:00 am) (For conference participants only)
Introductory Remarks: Houri Berberian (University of California, Irvine) & Marc Mamigonian (NAASR) (09:00-09:15 am).
Panel 1- Identity Politics and Memory (9:15-11:15 am)
Chair: Richard Antaramian (University of Southern California)
Dzovinar Derderian (University of California, Berkeley): Complicating Relations of Power in the Ottoman Empire Through Armenian Petitions from of Van in the Mid-19th Century
Hasmik Khalapyan (American University of Armenia): Politics and Social Agendas of Fashion Among Ottoman Armenians in the Late Ottoman Empire
Bedros Torosian (University of California, Irvine): Sex, Patriotism, and Redefining Ottoman Citizenship in Exile
Flora Ghazaryan (Central European University): On the Eve of National Awakening: Early 19th Century Sectarian Violence of Armenian Communities in Istanbul
Coffee Break
Panel 2- Translation, Knowledge Production, and Mobility (11:30 am-1:15 pm)
Chair: Helen Makhdoumian (Vanderbilt University)
Henry Shapiro (Ibn Khaldun University): Early Modern Armenian Mobility and the Rise of Diary-Writing
Erin Piñon (Princeton University): Translating Translators: Armenian Vernacular Images in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Hülya Çelik (Ruhr University): Much the Same in Other Words? On Armeno-Turkish Translations in the Early 19th Century
Hratch Kestenian (City University of New York): Between Empires and Epidemics: Armenian Doctors and the Global Circulation of Medical Knowledge in the 19th Century
PARALLEL Panel 2 – Philology, Manuscripts, and Archives (11:30 am-1:15 pm)
Chair: Jirair Libaridian (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Zohrab Gevorgyan (American University of Armenia): The Voyages of “Knowledge” in the Mediterranean According to Venetian and Genoese Notarial Documents Drawn up in Cilician Armenia (13th-14th cent.)
Ani Yenokyan (Matenadaran): The Legacy of the Prominent Bibliophile Vardan Bałišec‘I: Reconstructing the 17th-century Library at Amirdōlu Monastic School
Julia Hintlian (Harvard University): Searching for Molino: Sibyls and Amazons in a 17th-Century Armenian Manuscript
Lunch (1:15-2:15 pm) (For conference participants only)
Panel 3- Art, Architecture, Artists, and Dealers (2:15-4:15 pm)
Chair: Christina Maranci (Harvard University)
Talinn Grigor (University of California, Davis): The Description of Persia’s Notable Edifices and the Diasporicity of post-Safavid Armenian Art History
Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan (University of Lincoln): Life Stories of Armenian-Ottoman Antiquities Dealers: The Curious Case of Dikran Garabed/Khan Kelekian
Vazken Davidian (Oxford University): Exiles, Émigrés, Refugees: Ottoman Armenian Artists and The Arts of Dispersion
Sato Moughalian (City University of New York): The Union of Armenian Artists, 1916-1921: A Cultural Expression of “Nation”
PARALLEL Panel 3 – Architecture, Landscape, Memory, and the Senses (2:15-4:15 pm)
Chair: Rachel Goshgarian (Lafayette College)
Anahit Galstyan (University of California, Santa Barbara): Living with the Dead: Commemoration and Senses in Medieval Anatolia
Whitney Kite (Columbia University): The Virtues of Tillage: Interactions Between Monastery and Landscape and Tat’ev
Polina Ivanova (Harvard University): Land Inscribed in Stone and Parchment: Historical Geography, Local Memory, and Archiving Practices in the Story of a Fourteenth-Century Armenian Endowment, Its Ottoman Life, and Modern Afterlife
Coffee Break
Future Directions of the Field(s): An Open Discussion (4:30-6:00 pm)
Chair: Tsolin Nalbantian (Leiden University)
Artsakh Cultural Heritage – Lori Khatchadourian (Cornell University), Simon Maghakyan (California State University, Fresno)
Armenian Diaspora Studies – Hratch Tchilingirian (Oxford University), Khachig Tölölyan (Wesleyan University)
Armenian-American Studies – Nora Lessersohn (Harvard University)
Armenian History for the Twenty-First Century – Aram Ghoogasian (Princeton University)
Concluding Remarks (6:00-6:15 pm)
Barlow Der Mugrdechian (California State University, Fresno)
Dinner (7:30-10:00 pm) (For conference participants only)
