Kars and Ani
Sponsored by the Armenian Educational Foundation Chair
in
Modern Armenian History
Saturday, November 10, 9:30-1:00 PM
Introduction: Armenian Kars and Ani
Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA
Shirak and Vanand: A Historical Overview
Robert Hewsen, California State University, Fresno
Emergence of the Bagratuni Kingdoms of Kars and Ani
Tim Greenwood, Oxford University
The Church of the Holy Apostles at Kars and the
Relief of Judas
James Russell, Harvard University
Intermission
The Medieval Chroniclers of Ani
Robert W. Thomson, Oxford University
The Architect Trdat: From the Great Church in Ani
to the Great Church in Constantinople
Christina Maranci, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Vardan Anetsi and His Poem on the Divine Chariot
Theo Maarten van Lint, Leiden University
Lunch Recess
Afternoon Session, 2:00-6:00 P.M.
The Church of the Holy Savior in Ani
Diane Favro, Philip Stinson, Justina Bandol, UCLA
Ani after Ani
Claude Moutafian, Universite de Paris-Nord
Trade, Administration, and Cities around Kars and Ani,
14th-16th Centuries
Tom Sinclair, University of Cyprus
Intermission
Kars in the Russo-Turkish Wars of the 19th Century
Christopher J. Walker, London
Kars in the Armenian Liberation Movement
Rubina Peroomian, UCLA
Armenians and Molokans: Karakala, 1889-1920
Joyce Keosababian Bivin, Jerusalem
Sunday, November 11, 10:30-12:30
Morning Session in Armenian
The Kingdom of Vanand (Kars) within the Bagratuni State
Structure ?Kars-i Tagavorutiune Bagratuniats Petakan Karoytsum?
Rafayel Matevossyan, Institute of History, Erevan
The Architectural Heritage of Ani ?Ani-i Jartarapetutian
Zharangutiune?
Sarkis Balmanoukian, Los Angeles
The Kars Oblast, 1878-1914 ?Kars-i Marze, 1878-1914?
Ashot Melkonian, Institute of History, Erevan
Archeological Expeditions to Ani since 1892 ?Ani-i Jartarapetakan
Arshavanknere 1892-en i Ver?
Raymond Kevorkian, Centre d?Histoire Arménienne
Contemporaine, Université Paris III, Sorbonne nouvelle
Lunch Recess
Sunday, November 11, 1:30-5:30 P.M.
Afternoon Sessions in English
G.I. Gurdjieff and the Armenian Quest in Kars and Ani
David S. Calonne, Wayne State University
Kars: War and Revolution, 1914-1921
Richard Hovannisian, UCLA
Kars, Ardahan and Soviet Irredentism, 1945-1946
Robert Krikorian, Harvard University
Intermission
Charents: Mourning the Loss of Kars
Vartan Matiossian, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires
and Hovnanian School, New Jersey
Ani and Kars in Post-Charents Soviet Armenian Poetry
Anahid Keshishan, UCLA
The Armenian Dialect of Kars
Bert Vaux, Harvard University
Photographic Exhibit by Richard and Anne
Elizabeth Elbrecht
There is a special conference rate with the Brentwood
Holiday Inn at the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and the 405 Freeway
(170 N. Church Lane). It will be $95.00 per room plus tax and includes
complementary continental breakfast. Telephone 310-476-6411 and ask
for the Armenian Studies Conference rate.
Conference Call for Papers and Announcement
Generations of Genocide
26-27 January 2002
Institute of Contemporary History
and Wiener Library, London
On Britain?s
second National Holocaust Memorial Day, the Institute of Contemporary History
and Wiener Library, London is organizing a conference focusing on
four genocides of the twentieth-century. Highlighting Armenia, the Balkans,
Rwanda and the Holocaust, the conference will examine the history, processes,
implications and responses during and post-conflict. A range of political,
historical, legal, sociological and psychological perspectives will cover
themes including:
Economic and Political Strategies of genocidal governments
and regimes
International Responses, Surveillance and Prevention
Law, Denial, Acknowledgement
The role of the Media and Language
Generational Transmission
The conference
will be a public conference aimed at scholars, professionals working with
survivor communities, survivors and descendants of survivors and perpetrators.
It will be one of the first major conferences of its kind to be held in
the United Kingdom.
Submission guidelines:
Papers related
to the conference theme and suitable for workshop presentations must be
submitted before 15 September 2001. Please email proposals and include:
A proposal abstract, including title and outline (500
words maximum), A brief biographical sketch (100 words maximum).
Full contact details: Education and Events Co-ordinator,
Wiener Library, 4 Devonshire Street, London W1W 5BH, United Kingdom. T:
+ 44 20 7636 7247; F:+ 44 20 7436 6428; E: lib@wl.u-net.com; www.wienerlibrary.co.uk
International Conference
Christian Armenia as a
Crossroad of Civilizations
September 19-21, 2001
State Organizing
Commission for the Celebration of the 1700th Anniversary of the Proclamation
of Christianity as the State Religion of Armenia, Yerevan State University
(Faculty of History), UNESCO.
It is common
knowledge that Armenia is the first country that has adopted Christianity
as the state religion in 301. Since the early middle ages the Christian
Church has played a considerable role in Armenian History, in educational,
scientific and cultural life of the country. The role of the Armenian Church
was of great importance. After Armenia lost its independence, it became
a representative body of the Armenian political power. Being located in
the Eastern border of the Christian World, Christian Armenia became the
crossroad of civilizations, fixing interrelations between the Armenian
and neighboring civilizations thus affecting the progress of human civilization.
After Armenia regained its independence, the Church also regained its rights,
and, nowadays, the Church plays a great role in our society. Today many
historians, philologists, writers and artists draw attention to the History
of the Armenian Church and the role it played in Armenian Culture, Education
and Science.
The State
Organizing Commission for the Celebration of the 1700th Anniversary
of the Proclamation of Christianity as the State Religion of Armenia, UNESCO,
Yerevan State University are organizing an international conference on
September 19-21, 2001, under the title of Christian Armenia as a Crossroad
of Civilizations.
The conference
is divided into three sections:
1) History, 2. State, Church and Nation, 3. Education,
Science and Art
Reports are
supposed to be on Christian Armenia as a Crossroad of Civilizations. There
is a round table talk at the end of the conference to exchange thoughts
in a non-official atmosphere. The reports can be in Armenian, English,
Russian, German and French. The conference participants will have the opportunity
of visiting the historical places of the Republic of Armenia.
Conference Commission Chairman
Academician Radick M. Martirossyan
Rector, Yerevan State University