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2006 SAS Annual Membership Meeting and
MESA Annual Conference
The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) will hold its 32nd Annual
Membership meeting in Boston, MA, on November 18, 2006.
SAS President Joseph Kéchichian will preside over the meeting,
which is held in conjunction with the Annual Middle East Studies Association
Conference. SAS officers for 2006 are Vice-President, George Shirinian;
Secretary, Vahram Shemmassian; Treasurer, Barlow Der Mugrdechian; joined
by three at-large members, Ina Baghdiants McCabe, Richard Hovannisian,
and Robert Krikorian. John Greppin and Peter Cowe, co-editors of the
Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies, are ex-officio members
of the Executive Council.
While in Boston, SAS members will participate in three SAS sponsored
panels. All of the SAS sponsored panels will be held on Sunday, November
19, in the Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, which is the conference
headquarters.
Sunday, November 19
8:30AM-10:30AM
Narrative and Identity in the Armenian Press, 1850-1923
Organized by Victoria Rowe
Sponsored by the Society for Armenian Studies
Chair: Barlow Der Mugrdechian, California State University, Fresno
Lisa Khachaturian, Georgetown University
Cultivating Nationhood in Imperial Russia: The Periodical Press and
the Formation of a Modern Eastern Armenian Identity
Victoria Rowe, Chuo University, Japan
The Politics of Exile: An Armenian Women's Journal in Egypt, 1902-1904
Herve Alain-Rene Georgelin, Ecole françasie d'Athènes
Armenian Self-Staging in Male Diaries and Narratives, at the Beginning
of the 20th Century
Lerna Ekmekcioglu, New York UniversityHow to Mother a Nation: Perspectives
from the Armenian Women's Journal Hay Gin (The Armenian Woman) (1919-1923)
Sunday, November 19
2:00PM-4:00PM
Circulation and the Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from
Julfa, Isfahan
Organized by Sebouh Aslanian
Sponsored by the Society for Armenian Studies
Chair/Discussant: Razmik Panossian, Rights & Democracy
Sebouh Aslanian, Columbia University
From "Trade Diaspora" to "Circulation Society":
The Multi-Nodal Trade Network of the Julfan Armenians in the Early Modern
Period
Francesca Trivellato, Yale University
Business Cooperation Within and Across Trading Diasporas: A Comparative
Analysis of Sephardic and Armenian Merchant Networks in the Early Modern
Period
Houri Berberian, California State University, Long Beach
The Sceriman/Shahrimanians between Julfa and Venice: Information Networks
and Commercial Prosperity of an Iranian-Armenian Family
Bhaswati Bhattacharya, International Institute of Asian Studies
All the Milk and Honey of Spain Flow to Manila: Armenians in the Madras-Manila
Trade in the 18th Century
Sunday, November 19
4:30PM-6:30PM
Historical Memory and Identity: Exploring the Impact of the 1915-1916
Events in Armenian and Turkish Literature
Organized by Barlow Der Mugrdechian
Chair: Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA
Discussant: Fatma Müge Göçek, University of Michigan
Barlow Der Mugrdechian, California State University, Fresno
Three Apples Fell from Heaven: Memory and Identity in Post Genocide
Armenian Literature
Hülya Adak, Sabanci UniversityThe Armenian Deportations in Turkish
Fiction
Rubina Peroomian, UCLA
The Metamorphosis of the Post-Genocide Armenian Identity as Reflected
in Artistic Literature
All meetings and panels will be held in the Boston Marriott Copley
Place Hotel. Boston Marriott Copley Place, 110 Huntington Avenue Boston,
MA 02116
617-236-5800.
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