Feminist Interventions in Armenian Studies, Armenian Interventions in Feminist Studies
A workshop organized by Melissa Bilal and Lerna Ekmekcioglu, MIT Women and Gender Studies Program
Free and open to the public. For questions: lerna@mit.edu
APRIL 7, 2018 MIT Building 4, Room 237
9:00 Breakfast
9:30-11:00 Feminist Armenian Studies: From Margin to Center Chair: Anna Aleksanyan (Clark University) Panelists: Melissa Bilal (University of Chicago)
Lerna Ekmekcioglu (MIT) 11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-1:00 PM Across the Linguistic Divide: Translating a Century of Armenian Feminist Thought
Chair: Lisa Gulesserian (Harvard University)
Panelists: Shushan Avagyan (American University of Armenia)
Maral Aktokmakyan (University of Michigan)
Jennifer Manoukian (UCLA)
Deanna Cachoian-Schanz (U Penn)
1:00-2:00 PM LUNCH – everyone is invited
2:00-3:30 PM Unblocking Memory: How to Rewrite Armenian History
Chair: Lerna Ekmekcioglu
Panelists: Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill (Fresno State University)
Barbara Merguerian (AIWA)
Eliz Sanasarian (University of Southern California)
Houri Berberian (University of California Irvine) Christina Maranci (Tufts University)
3:30-4:00 PM Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 PM Voicing out the Critique: How to Generate Countering Expressions
Chair: Melissa Bilal
Panelists: Susan Pattie (University College London)
Hourig Attarian (American University of Armenia)
Talar Chahinian (California State University Long Beach)
Arpi Hamalian (Concordia University – Montreal)
Mary Papazian (San Jose State University)
