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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