Society for Armenian Studies
Annual Business Meeting
Saturday, November 17, 2001
8:00-10:00 PM
Pacific Concourse C
Hyatt Regency
San Francisco, California
18th Annual MESA Film Fest
?The Window? by Armen Titizian
Preliminary Program for the 35th
Annual MESA Conference
Participation by SAS Members
Sunday, November 18
10:30 am-12:30 pm
Religious and Political Issues Under
the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and
Its Aftermath
Sponsored by the Society for Armenian Studies
Chair: Robert H. Hewsen, Rowan University
Robert H. Hewsen, Rowan University
The Organization of the Armenian Church in Cilician Armenia
(1080-1375)
David Bundy, Christian Theological Seminary
Cultures in Collision: The Synod of Sis, 1243
S. Peter Cowe, UCLA
Relations between the Papacy, the Cilician State, and
Greater Armenia in the First Half of the 14th Century
Thomas A. Sinclair, University of Cyprus
Cilicia After the Kingdom: Population, Monasteries, etc.
under Mamluks and Turcomans
4:00pm-6:00pm
Transnational Interactions and
Diplomatic Relations
R. Hrair Dekmejian, University of Southern California
and Hovann H. Simonian, University of
Southern California
The Caspian Riparian States: Interrelations and
Asymmetries
Monday, November 19
8:00am-10:00am
Constructions of the Feminine in Modern Armenian Literature
Sponsored by the Society for Armenian Studies
Chair: S. Peter Cowe, UCLA
Victoria Rowe, University of Toronto
Srpuhi Dussap and the Construction of the
Modern Armenian Woman
Rita Vorperian, UCLA
Women?s Issues in Modern Armenian Literature
David S. Calonne, Wayne State University
Mythic Time and the Feminine in Varandyan?s
?The Well of Ararat?
Discussant: Barlow Der Mugrdechian,
California State University, Fresno
10:30am-12:30pm
Christians of the Middle East
Chair: Eleanor H. Tejirian, Columbia University
Susan Pattie, University College London
The Interaction of Middle East and Mid-West
in Armenian Religious Life