COMMUNICATIONS PRESENTED AT CONGRESSES AND SYMPOSIA BY PROF. DICKRAN KOUYMJIAN

1. Middle East Studies Association, Columbus, Ohio, November 1970. Communication: "Mxit'ar of Ani on the Ghaznavids and Seljuks;" Abstracts of Papers, p.24.

2. 28th International Congress of Orientalists, Canberra, Australia, January 1971. Communication: "The Iconography of Pentecost in Medieval Armenian Miniatures;" Abstract of Papers, Programs 1 & 6, pp.28-29.

3. American Oriental Society, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 1972. Communication: "The Iconography of a 15th Century Armenian Pentecost;" Abstracts, p.16.

4. Sixth International Congress of Iranian Art and Archaeology, Oxford, England, September 1972. Communication: "A Unique Coin of the Shirvanshah Minuchihr II," Summaries, pp.49-50.

5. XXIXe congrès international des orientalistes, Paris, July 1973. Communication: "Canons of the Akhi-type Armenian Brotherhood of Erzinjan," presented to both Sections 2 (Orient Chrètien) and 4 (Turcology); President of Section 2 on 21 July, Résumés des Communications, section 1-5, pp.85-6..

6. Eighth International Numismatic Congress, New York and Washington, September 1973. Communication: "The Gold Coinage of the Ildegizid Atabegs of Northwestern Iran."

7. Middle East Studies Association/Society for Armenian Studies, Cambridge, Mass., November 1974. Communication One: "The Zoomorphic Figure in the Iconography of Armenian Pentecost." Communication Two: "The Use of Illustrative Materials in the Teaching of Armenian History."

8. Primo Simposio Internazionale d'Arte Armena, Bergamo, June 1975. Communication: "The Problem of the Zoomorphic Figure in the Iconography of Armenian Pentecost."

9. Tenth Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, England, March 1976. Communication: "Methodology Using Armenian Material: The Epic of David of Sasun."

10. International Colloquium: Islamic Coins in the Service of Research. The World of Islam Festival, London, April 1976. Communication: "The Coinage of the Maliks of Darband."

11. XVe congrès international d'études byzantine, Athens, September 1976. Communication: "The Frescoes of the 14th Century Armenian Church in Famagusta, Cyprus."

12. 3rd Byzantine Studies Conference, New York, December 1977. Communication: "The Index of Armenian Art."

13. Middle East Studies Association, New York, November l977. Communication: "Far Eastern Influences in Armenian Miniature Painting."

14. Twelfth Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, England, March, 1978. Communication: "Narrative Cycles in Armenian Miniature Painting to the Year 1000."

15. International Symposium: Armenian between East and West, University of Venice, Italy, May-June 1978. Communication: "The Armenian as Portrayed in Eastern Art."

16. Second International Symposium on Armenian Art, Erevan, Armenia, U.S.S.R., September 1978. Communication: "The Provincial Style in Armenian Miniature Painting."

17. Society for Armenian Studies/Middle East Studies Association, Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 1978. Communication: "The Image of the Armenian in Islamic Art."

18. International Symposium: David of Sassoun, the Armenian Folk Epic after a Century, California State University, Fresno, November 1978. Communication: "The History and Enigma of the Armenian Folk Epic;" President and organizer of the symposium.

19. Thirteenth Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, England, April 1979. Communication: "The Classical Tradition in Armenian Art."

20. IXe congrès international de numismatique, Berne, Switzerland, September 1979. Communication: "Monetary Circulation in Southeastern Caucasia in the 12th-13th Centuries;" President of the final session of Part III.

21. Symposium: Armenian Identity in the Diaspora, University of California, Berkeley, March 1979. Communication: "Armenian Art in the Diaspora."

22. Primo Simposio Internazionale de Cultura Transcaucasica, Milan-Bergamo-Venice, June 1979. Communication: "An Illuminated Armenian Gospel of the Year 1204;" President of the closing session.

23. Second International ICOM (International Committee on Minorities) Conference, Paris, September 1979. Communication: "the Purpose and Direction of Armenian Studies in the Diaspora."

24. 5th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., October 1979. Communication: "The Index of Armenian Art, Part II, 11th Century Illuminations: A Progress Report."

25. International Conference on Classical Armenian Culture, 5th-8th Centuries, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, November 1979. Communication: "The Dome in the Formative Period of Armenian Architecture: Was It Borrowed or Indigenously Developed?"

26. Symposium: A Quarter Century of Armenian Studies. National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., April 1980. Communication: "Scholarship in Armenian Art, 1955-1980."

27. Symposium: Ecclesiastical History, Art, and Architecture of Classical and Medieval Armenia, University of Aarhus, Denmark, September 1980. Communication: "The Iconography of Armenian Pentecost: Theology and Methodology;" President of session II.

28. Society for Armenian Studies/Middle East Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November 1980. Communication: "Image of the Woman in Armenian Art."

29. Fourth International ICOM Conference, Milan, July 1981. Communication: "The Recent Crisis in the Armenian Church (1956-1981)."

30. Symposium: Armenians in the Eighties, Prospects and Challenges, University of California, Berkeley, September 1981. Communication: "The Armenian Diaspora in France: Hay Baykar and the ICOM Phenomenon."

31. Third International Symposium on Armenian Art, Vincenza, Italy, September 1981. Communication: "The Conservation of Fire Damaged Early Armenian Printed Books."

32. XVIth International Byzantine Congress, Vienna, October 1981. Communication: "Computerization of Manuscript Illuminations: The Index of Armenian Art."

33. Symposium: William Saroyan and His Writing, California State University, Fresno, November 1981. Communication: "William Saroyan as an Armenian Writer;" President and organizer of the symposium.

34. International Conference on Medieval Armenian Culture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, November 1982. Communication: "Dated Armenian Manuscripts as a Statistical Tool for Armenian History."

35. Conference on Armenian Cinematography, Centre de culture Arméniennes, Décines-Lyons, October 1983. Communication: "Le Cinema arménien dans le Diaspora."

36. Society for Armenian Studies/Middle East Studies Association, Chicago, November 1983. Communication: "Armenian Militancy: Present Consequences and Future Conjectures."

37. Tribunal Permanent des Peuples: Le Génocide des Arméniens, Paris, April 1984. Communication: "The Destruction of Armenian Historical Monuments as a Continuation of the Turkish Policy of Genocide."

38. International conference: Identity and Assimilation: The Armenian Experience in America, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., May 1984. Communication: "William Saroyan and the Armenian Ethnic Experience in America."

39. International Conference: 70 Years after the Genocide: Lessons from the Armenian Experience, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research and Bentley College, Waltham, Mass., April 1985. Communication: "The Genocide and Armenian Political Violence: Attitudes of Armenian Militants to the 1915 Massacres."

40. Conference: Le nouveau paysage interieur: fragments du monde arménien 1975-1985, Paris, May 1985. Communication: "1975-1985: les militants arméniennes, synthèse historiques avec esquisse de périodisation."

41. Symposium: De Armeniërs in de diaspora. Identiteit en assimilatie. Een Verkenning, Amsterdam, October 1985. Communication: "The Armenians: National Survival in the Diaspora."

42. Conference on Turkish Revisionist History, Zoryan Institute for Contemporary Armenian Affairs, Cambridge, Mass., May 1986. Communication: "Encyclopedias and Major Reference Works on the Armenian Genocide."

43. Colloquium: "Les Arméniens face à l'Occident et la question de la moderité - XVIe-XXe siècles," Paris, Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes, June 1986. Communication: "From Disintegration to Reintegration: Armenian at the Start of the Modern Era (XVIth-XVIIth Centuries),"

44. Colloque internationale: Les relations Arméno-Byzantines à travers l'art et l'histoire, Centre de rescherches historiques et juridiques de l'Université de Paris I, January 1988. Communication: "The Iconography of Pentecost and the Narrative Cycle of Armenian and Byzantine Gospel Illuminations."

45. Fifth International Symposium on Armenian Art, Venice, Italy, May 1988. Communication: Dated Armenian Manuscript Bindings in the Mekhitarist Collection of Venice."

46. International Conference, Soviet Armenia: Problems and Prospects, University of Pennsylvanian, Philadelphia, October 1988. Communication: "The Status of Artists and Intellectuals in Soviet Armenia."

47. Byzantine Studies Conference, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, November 1988. Communication: "The Feast Cycle in Armenian Gospel Illumination."

48. International workshop: Priorities, Problems and Techniques of Text Editions, Aarhus University & Association International des Etudes Arméniennes, Sandbjerg Hall, Sønderborg, Denmark, July 1989. Communication: "Inscribed Armenian Manuscript Bindings: A Preliminary General Survey."

49. International Symposium: La protection du patrimoine architectural arménien, Palais de l'Europe, Strasbourg, April 1990. President of the final session. Communication: "The Preservation of Armenian Architectural Monuments: Conclusions."

50. International Symposium on the Armenian Bible, University of Heidelberg, July 1990. President of the morning session, 17 July. Communication: "The Evolution of Armenian Gospel Illumination."

51. 5th Biennial Conference, Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes, Bologna, Italy, October 1990. President of the plenary session, 14 October. Communication: "Identifying the Apostles in Armenian Narrative Miniatures."

52. Table ronde de codicologie comparée, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, December 1990. Communication: "Reliures datées de manuscrits arméniens."

53. International Symposium: "Moîse de Khorène et l'historiographie arménienne des origines," organized by myself and sponsored by the Institut national des langues et civilisation orientales, Paris, 25-26 January 1991. Communication: "Moîse de Khorène: le témoignage des scribes."

54. Symposium "Tapis et textiles arméniens," Maison arménienne de la jeunesse et de la culture de Marseille, February 1991. Communication: "Les tapis à inscriptions arméniennes."

55. "Walt Whitman Facing West. A Symposium on the Centennial of the Poet's Death," School of Arts & Humanities, California State University, Fresno, March 1992. Communication: "Walt Whitman and William Saroyan: Singing the Song of America."

56. "William Saroyan after a Decade," a Symposium organized by the William Saroyan Festival and the Armenian Studies Program, California State University, Fresno, May 1992. Communication: "Influences on Saroyan: Walt Whitman and the Others."

57. Symposium on the Armenian New Testament, Alex & Mary Manoogian Museum, Southfield, Michigan, May 1992. Communication: "Armenian Gospel Illumination and the Classical Tradition."

58. Middle East Studies Association annual meeting, October 1992, Portland, Oregon, panel entitled "Armenian in the Age of Columbus," sponsored by the Society for Armenian Studies. Communication: "Armenian in the Age of Columbus."

59. 10th Anniversary Conference, Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, September 1993, president of the opening session. Communication: "Armenia and Modernity."

60. Cental Valley Research Symposium, California State University, Fresno, April 1994. Communication: A Unique Armenian Papyrus and Its Paleography."

61. Conference entitledJournées de Codiocologie et de Paléographie des Manuscrits du Moyen-orient, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, June 1994. Communication: "Armenian Paleography: A Reassessment."

62. 20th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1994. Communication: "A Unique Armeno-Greek Papyrus and Its Paleography."

63. 43rd Annual Conference, Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo, Spoleto, Italy, April 1995. Communication: "Armenian Miniature Painting in the Formative Period."

64. V International Conference on Armenian Linguistics, Montreal, May 1995. Communication: "A Unique Armenian Papyrus."

65. Septième journée d'Études Coptes, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, May 1995. Communication: "A Greco-Armenian Papyrus from Egypt."

66. 29th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association and the 21st Annual Meeting of the Society for Armenian Studies in Washington, D.C., December 1995, panel on "Shiraz, Isfahan, Tehran - Persian or Armenian Art." Communication: "The New Julfa Style of Armenian Manuscript Binding."

67. William Saroyan Plus Fifteen, An International Conference on the Occasion of the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Death of William Saroyan (1908-1981), University of California, Berkeley, November 1996. Organizer of the conference. Communication: opening and closing remarks.

68. Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA, Conference on "Renegotiating Identity in Terms fo the Other: Armeno-Islamic Interchange in Anatolia during the Second Half of the 13th Century," May, 1997. Communication: "Urban Brotherhoods in the Thirteenth Century and the Canons of Yovhannés Erznkac'i."

69. Conference "The Spirit of William Saroyan," Stanford University, Stanford, May 1997. Communication: "Who Reads Saroyan Today? An Assessment of William Saroyan's Place in American Literature."

70. International Conference on Historic Armenian Cities: Armenian Van/Vaspurakan, UCLA, Los Angeles, May 1997. Communication 1: "Van under the Mongols, Turkmen, Persians and Ottoman." Communication 2: "Pictorial Memories of Armenian Van."

71. 35th International Congress of Orientalists, July 1997, Budapest. Communication: "Sirarpie Der Nersessian, A Pioneer of Armenian Studies." Member of the International Advisory Board.

72. International conference, Travellers to Egypt and the Near East, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, July 1997. Communication: Visual Perception of Van through Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century.

73. International Colloquium on "Apocryphal Literature in the Armenian Language," sponsored by l'Association pour l'Etude de la Litterature Apocryphe Chretienne and the Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes, held at the University of Geneva, 18-20 September 1997. President of the final session entitled "Iconography of Armenian Apocrypha."

74. Conference-Seminar on "Rouben Mamoulian (1897-1997)" organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia and the American University in, Erevan from October 4-11, 1997. Communications: a series of seven lectures on the Armenian American filmmaker.

75. International Conference "Alexandre le Grand dans les Traditions Medievales occidentales et Proche-orientales" sponsored by the University of Paris (Sorbonne) and UNESCO in Paris, 27-29 November 1997. Communication: "L'iconographie de l'epopee d'Alexandre dans les manuscrits armeniens medievaux."

76. International Colloquium, "L'Actualité du Génocide des Arméniens," organized by the Comité de Défense de la Cause Arménienne, Sorbonne, 1-18 April, 1998. Communication: "Patrimoine national - Préjudice."

77. International Conference, "Armenian Church and Eastern Christianity," sponsored by the Armenian Academy of Science, Erevan, Armenian, 15-20 September 1998. Communication: "Christian Iconographic Motifs in the Armenian Alexander Romance."

78. International conference on Genocide, California State University, Sacramento, 10-11 October 1998. Communication: "Confiscation of Armenian Property and the Destruction of Armenian Historical Monuments as a Manifestation of the Genocidal Process."

79. International Conference on Historic Armenian Cities: Garin/Erzerum, UCLA, Los Angeles, October 1998. Communication: "The Decline and Revival of Erzerum, 16th-18th Centuries."

80. Conference "Saroyan at Ninety," CSU Fresno, March 1999. Organizer of the conference. Communication: "Who Reads Saroyan Today?"

82. International conference on Cilicia, UCLA, October 2000. Communication:"Cilicia and the Catholicosate from the Fall of the Armenian Kingdom to 1915."

83. International conference entitled Les Chrétiens orientaux à la époque des Croisades, 20-2 February 2001, Université Paul Valery, Montpellier, France. Communication: "Insignes de souveraineté de Léon le Magnifique, roi arméniens de Cilicie."

84. Six University Lectures: invited by the Oriental Institute of the Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium to present a series of six lecture to doctoral students and faculty, January, April-May, 2001. Topic: "Armenian History & Art: The Search for an Identity."

85. International symposium "San Gregorio Armeno e il suo culto nell'Italia meridionale," Lecce-Nardò, Italy, 19- 20 October 2001. Communication: "The Armenian Iconography of St. Gregory the Illuminator."

86. International conference "Armenia beyond Territory. The Evolution of the Individual Living in the Diaspora," Leiden, The Netherlands, October 30, 2001. Communication: "What Is Armenian Art? A Question of Identity."

87. National Association of Armenians Studies & Research, conference "Rethinking Armenian Studies: Past, Present and Future," Harvard University, 4 October 2002. Communication I: "The Role of the University Chairs: Past and Present" Communication II: "The Future of Armenian Studies"

88. California State University Sonoma, 20th Annual Holocaust Lecture Series, 11 March 2003. Communication: "When Does Genocide End? The Armenian Case."

89. Five lectures on diverse topics as Michael Dukakis Fellow at the American College of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1-12 April 2003.

90. Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece, 9 April 2003, Communication: "Christian Iconographic Motifs in the Armenian Alexander Romance."

91. Twelfth Conference, Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces, The Armenian Communities of the Region of Kesaria (Gesaria/Caesarea), UCLA, 17May 2003. Communication: "Armenian Miniature Painting in Asia Minor in the Eleventh Century: The Melitene Group

92. International Conference, "Le Reliure Médiévale," Institut de France, Paris, 22-24 May 2003. Communication: "The Decoration of Armenian Manuscript Bindings."

93. International Symposium, "Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 13-15 June 2003. Communication: "Chinese Motifs in Thirteenth-Century Armenian Painting: the Mongol Connection."

94 International Conference, " Les objets de la mémoire : réflexions comparatives à propos des reliques," University of Geneva, 25-26 October 2003. Communication: "The Right Hand of St. Gregory and other Armenian Arm Relics."

95. International Conference Constantinople: 550 anos desde su Caida, IX encuentro Cientifico sobre Grecia, Granada, Spain, 4-6 December 2003. Communication: "Armenians in Constantinople from 1453 to 1600."