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Dennis R. Papazian,
President of SAS and editor of the Journal of the Society for Armenian
Studies (JSAS) is currently taking applications for the editorship of JSAS.
?We are currently working on volume 10,? reports Papazian, ?and we have
a guest editor for volume 11. After that, we need to find a successor.?
?We prepare the Journal
by ?desktop publishing? and the Armenian Research Center, which I head,
subsidizes the publication. We share the cost with the Society on
a 50/50 basis. The Journal, as most academic journals, is not self-supporting.
It receives help both from the Society and from the Armenian Research Center.
The Journal is now indexed by MLA,? continued Papazian, ?and so all articles
will be indexed by the major indexing agency of the world, and all articles
will be available to scholars, students, and to the general public.
It is a worthy undertaking.?
Papazian stated that
a prospective editor should apply to the Executive Council and should be
prepared to begin collecting articles and book reviews for volume 12.
?In that way,? continued Papazian, ?there will be no lapse between issues
as there was between volume 5 and volume 6.?
Interested persons
should write to Prof. Dennis R. Papazian, President, Society for Armenian
Studies, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI, 48128-1491.
SAS Seeks Editor
for JSAS
Call for a Successor
Dennis R. Papazian,
President of SAS and editor of the Journal of the Society for Armenian
Studies (JSAS) is currently taking applications for the editorship of JSAS.
?We are currently working on volume 10,? reports Papazian, ?and we have
a guest editor for volume 11. After that, we need to find a successor.?
?We prepare the Journal
by ?desktop publishing? and the Armenian Research Center, which I head,
subsidizes the publication. We share the cost with the Society on
a 50/50 basis. The Journal, as most academic journals, is not self-supporting.
It receives help both from the Society and from the Armenian Research Center.
The Journal is now indexed by MLA,? continued Papazian, ?and so all articles
will be indexed by the major indexing agency of the world, and all articles
will be available to scholars, students, and to the general public.
It is a worthy undertaking.?
Papazian stated that
a prospective editor should apply to the Executive Council and should be
prepared to begin collecting articles and book reviews for volume 12.
?In that way,? continued Papazian, ?there will be no lapse between issues
as there was between volume 5 and volume 6.?
Interested persons
should write to Prof. Dennis R. Papazian, President, Society for Armenian
Studies, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI, 48128-1491.
First Announcement
International Symposium
on Armenian
Spirituality
25 June-1 July,
2001
On the occasion of
the 17th Centenary of the Proclamation of Christianity in Armenia, the
Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia, with the collaboration of the University
of Geneva and the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey, Switzerland, will organize
an International Symposium on Armenian Spirituality.
The theme of the
Symposium will be Armenian Spirituality in different contexts and perspectives:
exegetical and homiletic literature, liturgy, music, art and religious
poetry.
Date and venue will
be 25 June - 1 July, 2001 at the Ecumenical Institute, Chateau de
Bossey, 1298 Caligny, Switzerland.
All those who wish
to take part in this International Symposium as a lecturer or participant
are kindly asked to contact Very Rev. Nareg Alemezian at: The Armenian
Catholicosate of Cilicia, Antelias, Lebanon; Tel.: +961.4 410001/3; Fax
+961.4 410002; Cellular: +961.3 964218; E-Mail: nareg@inco.com.lb.
*Transport, food and
lodging subsidies will be provided to participants reading papers.
*The proceedings of
the conference will be published.
*Those wishing to
present a paper should send a tentative title by October 1, 1999, to Father
Alemezian.
More detailed information
will follow in the near future.
Committee-17th Centenary
of the Proclamation
of Christianity in
Armenia
Armenian Cilicia
and
the Catholicosate
of Cilicia
From October 18 to
20, 2000, an international conference on Armenian Cilicia and the Catholicosate
of Cilicia will be held at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
The conference will be organized within the UCLA Armenian Studies Program
series on ?Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces,? initiated three years
ago and continuing with semi-annual meetings. This expanded conference
will be held under the honorary presidency and patronage of His Holiness
Aram I of the Great House of Cilicia, with the co-sponsorship of the Armenian
Studies Program of California State University, Fresno (Dr. Dickran Kouymjian,
Director) and with the support of the Western United States Prelacy of
the Armenian Apostolic Church (Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate).
I am circulating this
call for papers with the goal of having a complete program in place by
December 1999. The conference will examine history, society, culture,
and religion in Armenian Cilicia from antiquity to the twentieth century.
Individual papers or pre-arranged panels with three or four participants
may focus, for example, on one of the following themes.
This list is not exclusive
or comprehensive and can be altered according to the abstracts submitted.
If you are able to arrange an entire panel with colleagues in your own
field that would be helpful.
1. Cilicia in antiquity
and as a marchland
2. The Armenian principality
and kingdom of Cilicia, including the Crusades and Cilicia
3. The Armenians of
Cilicia under Mamluk and Ottoman rule
4. Cilicia in
the 1890s, 1909, and World War I
5. Return, Self-Defense,
and Final Exodus, 1918-1922
6. History of the
Catholicosate in Cilicia from the eleventh through the nineteenth centuries
7. Eclessiastical
history, inter-church relations, and cultural-religious figures
8. Armenian literature,
art, and architecture of Cilicia
9. Disruption, relocation,
and revival of the Catholicosate in the twentieth century
We welcome diverse
disciplines and perspective on the political, military, social, ecclesiastical,
and economic history, literature and art, and religion, including missionary
movements, of Armenian Cilicia. Please submit a one-page proposal and abstract
with the suggested title for the presentation by December 1, 1999.
The proceedings of the conference will be published and all participants
will be required to submit a written text by September 15, 2000, for inclusion
within the program. The suggested length of the article is between
18,000 and 25,000 words, including notes.
We would appreciate
your distributing this call for papers to scholars in related fields (Religious
Studies; Classics; Ancient Near East; Byzantine Studies; Near and Middle
East Studies, etc.) who may wish to participate in the conference.
The conference organizers
will arrange for accommodations, meals, and hospitality in Los Angeles,
and, in case of need, can help to defray the cost of travel.
Please submit your
proposal by e-mail to:
Hovannis@history.ucla.edu;
by FAX, c/o Richard Hovannisian (310) 206-9630; or by mail: Richard Hovannisian,
Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, California
90095-1473.
We look forward to
a rich and fruitful conference and to a valuable volume of its proceedings.
Richard Hovannisian
AEF Chair in Armenian
History
UCLA
International Conference
in Honor of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Founding of Yerevan State
University
Yerevan State University,
Republic of Armenia
4-9 October 1999
University Education
and Science in the
Third Millennium
Conference Committee
Members:
Radick Martirossian,
Rector of Yerevan State University, academician-conference committee chair
Eduard Khazarian,
Vice Rector of Yerevan State University, academician
Eduard Chubarian,
Vice Rector of Yerevan State University, academician
Semion Hachumian,
Vice Rector of Yerevan State University, professor
Rafael Matevossian,
Vice Rector of Yerevan State University, docent
Hayk Avetissian, Scientific
Secretary of Yerevan State University, docent-secretary of conference committee
Aida Avetissian, Dean
of the Department of Chemistry of Yerevan State University, academician
Babken Harutinian,
Dean of the Department of History of Yerevan State University, professor
The Basic Issues Under
Discussion
1. The university
as a scientific, educational and cultural center
? The role of universities
in forming a civic society
? The means and methods
of developing unified educational and scientific processes
? Humanization and
humanitarianization of university education
? Contemporary issues
of teaching social sciences
? Contemporary educational
technologies, implementation of new techniques and methods of teaching
(distance teaching and post-graduate education)
? The changing role
and function of the teacher in an competent society
2. The management
and financing of the university
?Autonomy and academic
liberalization of the university
? Internal management
and structural changes
? Fund-raising and
creating an endowment
? Integration of the
university with international projects
Schedule
5 October, Tuesday
0930-1030 Registration
of conference participants (third floor lobby of Yerevan State University
Main Hall)
1030-1230 Plenary
session for the scientific conference: opening address, participants? opening
speeches
(Main Hall of Yerevan
State University)
1400-1600 Continuation
of plenary session: the main reports
6 October, Wednesday
0930-1230 Continuation
of the scientific conference in independent sessions (Center of Education
and Science)
7 October, Thursday
0930-1230 Continuation
of the scientific conference (Center of Education and Science)
6th UCLA Series Features Tigranakert/Diarbekir and Edessa/Urfa
The sixth in the UCLA
international conference series on historic Armenian cities and provinces
will feature Tigranakert/Diarbekir and Edessa/Urfa.
The two-day conference
to be held on Saturday and Sunday, November 13-14, 1999, is organized by
Richard Hovannisian, Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian
History, in cooperation with the Grigor Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies
at UCLA. There is no charge for admission.
Saturday, November
13
9:30 AM-1:00 PM
Introduction-Armenian
Tigranakert/Dikranagerd/Diarbekir
Richard Hovannisian,
UCLA
Tigranakert/Diarbekir:
Armenia on the Tigris
Robert Hewsen, (Rowan
University of New Jersey)
Tigranocerta/Tigranakert:
Where, When, Why?
Levon Avdoyan, (Library
of Congress)
The Epic of Tigran
the Great
James R. Russell,
(Harvard University)
Discussion ? Intermission
The Muslim Conquest
of Amida/Diarbekir and Edessa
Walter Kaegi, (University
of Chicago)
The Armenian Art and
Architecture of Amida/Diarbekir
Christina Maranci,
(Suffolk University)
Diarbekir, 1895: Gustave
Meyrier and the View from the French
Claire Mouradian,
(Centre national de la Consulate Recherché Scientifique, Paris)
Discussion ? Lunch
2:30-6:00 PM
The Armenians of Diarbekir,
Demographic Changes, 1895-1914 (in Armenian)
Raymond Kevorkian,
(Bibliotéque Nubarian and Université Paris III, Sorbonne
nouvelle)
The Armenian Villages
of Palu: History and Demography
George Aghjayan, (Fellow,
American Society of Actuaries,Worcester)
Diarbekir, 1915:
The View from Constantinople
Hilmar Kaiser, (European
University Institute, Florence)
Discussion ? Intermission
?Es Kisher...??How
Did the Song Survive?
Hasmig Injejikian,
(Université de Montréal)
The Tigranakert (Dikranagerdtsi)
Armenian Dialect
Bert Vaux, (Harvard
University)
The Stone-Walled City:
Diarbekir in Najarian,
Balakian, Arlen
David Calonne, (Wayne
State University)
Discussion and Summary
Sunday, November 14,
1999
1:30-6:00 P M
Armenian Edessa/Urha/Urfa
Richard Hovannisian,
UCLA
Early Armenian Christianity
in Edessa
Robert W. Thomson,
(Oxford University)
The Armenian Presence
in Edessa after the
Muslim Conquest
Tim Greenwood, (Oxford
University)
The Chronicle of Matthew
of Edessa (Matteos Urhayetsi)
Ara Dostourian, (West
Georgia State University)
Medieval Edessa:
Crusaders, Kings, Manuscripts,
and Politics
Lucy Der Manuelian,
(Tufts University)
Discussion and Intermission
Urfa?s Last Stand,
1915
Carlos Bedrossian,
(Northwestern University)
Expulsion of the Armenian
Survivors of Diarbekir and Urfa, 1923-1930
Vahé Tachjian,
(Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
The Armenian Dialect
of Urfa
Bert Vaux, (Harvard
University)
Oral Traditions and
Songs of Tigranakert and Urfa
Bedros Alahaidoyan,
Musicologist
Photographic Exhibit,
Richard and Anne Elizabeth Elbrecht of Davis, California
Additional information
may be obtained from Professor Hovannisian through e-mail at Hovanis@history.ucla.edu,
or by telephone at (310) 825-3375.
