2015 Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies-February 6
2015 Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
Friday, February 6, 2015 • UCLA Royce Hall 314
The event is free and open to public
9:30 – 10:00 AM Breakfast
10:00 – 10:10 Opening Remarks
Daniel Fittante • Project Director, 2015 Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
Dr. S. Peter Cowe • Professor and Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies at UCLA
PANEL 1 • ARMENIANS IN THE RUSSIAN AND OTTOMAN EMPIRES
Chair: Ani Shahinian • Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA
10:10 – 10:30 Stephen B. Riegg • Department of History,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
“Spies and Settlers: Armenians in the Russian Service, 1804-13”
10:30 – 10:50 Urban Jaksa • Department of Politics, University of York (England)
“Geopolitics of Genocide: Comparing the Ottoman and Russian Empire’s Ethnic Cleansing Policies against Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and Circassians in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries”
10:50 – 11:00 Discussion
PANEL 2 • PREHISTORIC PASTORALISM
Chair: Kristine Olshansky • Archaeology, UCLA
11:00 – 11:20 Hannah Rachel Chazin • Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago (US)
“Understanding Pastoralist Activities in Prehistoric Armenia: Integrating Zooarchaeology and Isotope Analysis”
11:20 – 11:25 Discussion
11:25 – 11:45 Coffee/Tea Break
PANEL 3 • DIASPORA AND IDENTITY
Chair: Ara Soghomonian, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA
11:45 – 12:05 Hakob A. Matevosyan • Institute for the Study of Culture, Leipzig University (Germany)
“Dimensions of Diasporic Identities: Armenians in Hungary”
12:05 – 12:25 Syuzanna Barseghyan • Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (Armenia)
“The Role of Ethnic Media in the Armenian Diaspora”
12:25 – 12:45 Karen Jallatyan • Department of Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine
“Cinematographic Constructions of Armenian Identity in the Films of Gariné Torrosian and Atom Egoyan”
12:45 – 1:05 Artak Beglaryan • Drastamat Kanayan Institute for National
Strategic Studies (INSS) of the Republic of Armenian Ministry of Defense (Armenia)
“U.S. Armenian Lobbies and their Involvement in the Artsakh Cause”
1:05 – 1:25 Discussion
1:25 – 3:00 Lunch
PANEL 4 • MERCANTILE ACTIVITY
Chair: Anatolii Tokmantcev • Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA
3:00 – 3:20 Sona Tajiryan• Department of History, University of California at Los Angeles (US)
“Agha di Matus, 1635-1709: An Armenian Diamond and Gem Merchant in Livorno and Venice””
3:20 – 3:40 Kathryn Jane Franklin • Department of Anthropology,University of Chicago (US)
“A Route of Trade and a Road to Progress: the Silk Road in Medieval and Contemporary Armenian politics”
3:40 – 3:50 Discussion
PANEL 5 • LEXICOGRAPHICAL MANUSCRIPTS
Chair: Ani Honarchian • Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA
3:50 – 4:10 Ester Petrosyan • Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University (Hungary)
“Syriac Manuscript 11: A Tri-lingual Dictionary Kept in the Library of the Franciscan Order in Cairo (A Detailed Examination)”
4:10 – 4:15 Discussion
4:15 – 4:35 Coffee/Tea Break
PANEL 6 • GENDER AND FAMILY DYNAMICS
Chair: Rosie Aroush • Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA
4:35 – 4:55 Milena Oganesyan • Department of Anthropology, University of Montana-Missoula (US)
“Living on the Fault Lines: A Study of Armenian-Georgian Intermarriage in Georgia”
4:55 – 5:15 Elli Ponomareva • Department of Anthropology, European University at Saint Petersburg
“Male Street Culture in Yerevan and its Manifestation in Various Social Contexts”
5:15 – 5:35 Ani Jilozian • Global Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
“Giving Women a Voice: Perceptions & Experiences with Contraception & Abortion in Rural Armenia”
5:35 – 5:50 Discussion
5:50 – 6:00 Guest Speaker • Marc Mamigonian, Director of Academic Affairs of the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)
6:00 – 6:10 Presentation of the Berekian Armenian Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Books
6:10-7:00 Reception
