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UCLA Conference on Contemporary
Armenian Literature
This conference, which is organized by the Narekatsi Chair of Armenian Studies, is to be held on the UCLA campus on the weekend of April 7-8, 2001 and seeks to explore the major literary trends of the last decade and a half both in the Armenian Republic and the Diaspora through the medium of papers and round-table discussions on six core themes. The conference will also present a dinner-theater on the Saturday evening featuring the performance of two recent Armenian plays. It is hoped to publish the proceedings in due course. For further information please contact Peter Cowe at (cowe@humnet.ucla.edu) or (310) 825-1307.
Attention: New Deadline: February 10th
First Circular- International Conference
on Armenian Dialectology
Stepanakert, 11-12 August 2001
and Summer University on Armenian dialectology Stepanakert,
13-25 August 2001. Under the auspices of: Société des Etudes
Arméniennes (France) Association Internationale des Etudes Arméniennes
Ministère de la Culture de la République du Haut Karabagh
Society of Armenian Studies (more pending)
1. International
Conference on Dialectology Stepanakert, 11-12 August 2001 Scientific
Comittee / Comité d?OrganisationAnaïd Donabédian (INALCO,
Paris) ; Bert Vaux (Harvard, USA); Jos Weitenberg (Pays-Bas); Melada Aghabekian
(Académie des Sciences d?Arménie) ; Agnès Ouzounian
(INALCO, Paris); M.? (Stepanakert) Topics - Armenian dialectology (linguistics)
- Ethnological, historical etc. topics, directly related with Armenian
dialects (See also Sumer University program for special round table topics)
Deadlines January 15, 2001 : Submission of the intent to participate (including
provisional title) March 1, 2001: Deadline for the submission of abstracts
(must not exceed one page) May 15, 2001 : Notification of abstract?s approvals
June 15, 2001 : Deadline for fulfilling of final registration form with
partly payment. Participation fees : 50 USD (Conference only) 180 $ (Conference
+ Summer University) (don?t include accomodation, see proposals below)
Contact: Anaïd Donabédian, Paris Tel/Fax ++33 1 46 12 00 06
Email: Anaid.Donabedian@inalco.fr Bert Vaux, Harvard Email: vaux@fas.harvard.edu
2. Summer
University on Armenian dialectology
Stepanakert, 13-25 August 2001 An unique opportunity
to learn an Armenian dialect in situ! Open to : scholars (particularly
in linguistic and ethnology) and speakers of standard Armenian (western
or eastern). Teaching language : Armenian Sessions: -Learning Karabagh
dialects (10 h per week) -Introduction to armenian general dialectology
(4 h per week) Teachers : Pr. Bert Vaux (Harvard University Professor):
Karabagh dialect methodic learning Pr. Melada Aghabekian (Armenian Academy
of Sciences Institute of Linguistics): General Armenian dialectology Karabagh
dialect practice: Depending the number of participants, local teachers
will be engaged, for active teaching with groups no more than 15 persons.
Visits to the villages and ethnologic meetings: Cars will be at disposal
of participants for free visit of villages by little groups (max : 8 persons)
in order to give the opportunity of spontaneous contact and recording of
ethnologic or linguistic datas. Cultural and social program A concert will
be offered to participants of Conference and Sumer University.August 15th,
participation to the Grape benediction ceremony in Gandzassar One banquet
will be offered to participants.
3. General
Schedule (subject to changes) and accomodation (Conference and Summer University)
Friday, August 10: Transfer Erevan-Stepanakert Departure from Erevan by
bus at 10h00 AM. Arrival in Stepanaket around 6h30 PM: participants registration,
dinner and dispatching in hotels or families. Saturday august 11 : Conference
10h-12h: Opening Session, under presidency of Nagorno-Karabagh Ministry
of Culture, artistic program -Plenary sessions (special guests : Pr. Acad.
Guevork Djahoukian, Pr. Jos J. Weitenberg) 14h-15h45 : Session 1 (6 papers)
(general topics, linguistics, ethnology or history) 16h-17h30: Session
2 (6 papers) (general topics, linguistics, ethnology or history)Sunday
august 12: Conference Parallel sessions (total 18-20 papers) -Phonetics
- Morphology ans Syntax Monday august 13 - Friday august 24: Summer University
Sessions Monday-Friday 9h00 - 12h · Grammar and practical courses
of NK dialect : 2h30 / day. · General introduction to armenian dialectology
: 45 mn per day Special topic round tables : For scholars, round tables
will be organized in addition during the second part of the day (max 3
round tables. Scheduled to date : 1. Analytic forms ans synthetic forms
in verbal system across Armenian dialectological and historical variants
(org. Anaid Donabedian). Proposals may be done for other topics. During
the second part of the day and weekends, visit to villages by car or minibus.
Accomodation: Participants have to plan following expanses (except airplane
ticket to Erevan): - Registration fees : 180 $ (Conference + Summer University)
or 50 $ (Conference only) (include participation to courses, coffee breaks
during the Conference, social program, group transfers, Erevan/Stepanakert
tranfer) - Accomodation: entre 3 - 20 $ per night depending your own choice,
(total 54 - 360$). 3 $ is the cheapest hotel in Stepanakert (with bathrooms
and toilets on the floor), 20 $ is the best hotel, and accomodation in
families is around 10$ per night). (A preparatory visit by organizing comittee
in April will check all conditions in order to give you more precise informations
before your final choice) - Regarding the flight day for arrival in Erevan,
it may be necessary to plan an accomodation in Erevan. Prices at the Erevan
University Guest House are 15 to 20$ per night. Participants from emerging
countries will not pay registration fees for the conference. Participants
from Armenia wishig to attend the conference or the Sumer University must
contact Melada Aghabekian (amelada@hotmail.com) at the Institute of Linguistics,
wich is the responsible for Armenian delegation.
Dr. Anaid
Donabedian-Demopoulos Responsable de la Section d?armenien Institut National
des LAngues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) 2, rue de Lille 75343
Paris Cedex 07 France. Attention: January 1, 2001 : Home / Domicile : 7,
villa Prevost 92120 Montrouge Tel/Fax ++33 (0)1 46 12 00 06 email : Anaid
Donabedian@inalco.fr
Second Conference on Genocide
Buenos Aires, Argentina
December 1-2, 2000
Academics and
scholars of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay met in Buenos Aires
December 1-2 to discuss on Human Rights in a large sense and the Armenian
Genocide at a conference co-sponsored by the Armenian Center and the Armenian
Apostolic Church.
The conference began on December 1 at 5 p.m. at the archbishop
hall with a presentation by architect Juan Carlos Toufeksian who pointed
out the purpose of the conference: to introduce the Armenian Genocide
in the large field of human rights.
The conference
continued with the dissertations of the Director of Human Rights of the
government of Buenos Aires city, the Director of the National Institute
against Discrimination, Archbishop Kissag Mouradian, the historian Hebe
Clementi and representatives of Armenian institutions.
December 2 Sessions:
Where were
God? (through Aurora Mardiganian?s testimony) Martin Cremonte (University
of Buenos Aires)
Anti-Jewish dimension of the Argentine Genocide, 1976-1983,
Marisa Braylan, Daniel Feierstein, Miguel Galante and Adrián Jmelnisky
(Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas, Centro de Estudios
Sociales);
Nearer of the Human Rights, Ana Arzoumanian (University
of Buenos Aires)
A Missing Genocide, the Armenian Case, Maria Teresa
Poyrazian (University of Córdoba)
The Inquisition and the Human Rights, Pablo Chami (Centro
de Investigación y difusión de la cultura sefaradí).
Structures of Social Practices: A Social Construction
New Model, Daniel Feierstein.
Cultural Destruction and Denial, the Armenian Genocide,
Juan Carlos Toufeksian.
The Identity Question, Hugo Biagini (La Plata University).
Representation of the Armenian Genocide in the Armenian
press, Nélida Boulgourdjian-Toufeksian (University of Buenos Aires).
Derecho contrafáctio, Carlos Alemian (Lomas de
Zamora University).
Law, Culture and Discrimination, Juan Carlos Lavignolle
(Morón University).
Closing Panel:
Ignacion Klich, University of Westminster and Dora Schwartstein,
Director of Oral History Program, at the University of Buenos Aires.
During two
days, an audience of between 20 persons heard lectures on variety of aspects
of the Armenian Genocide, Jewish Holocaust and Argentine military government
genocide.
The proceeding of all the conference will be published
as a book.
Details of the proceeding of the First Conference on
Genocide, held in Buenos Aires in 1998, can be requested from Nélida
Boulgourdjian-Toufeksian: bnelida@hotmail.com.
Necrology
Dr. Hrant Tamrazian,
one of Armenia?s most prominent academics, passed away in Yerevan on February
9 at the age of seventy-five.
Tamrazian was born in the Achajour village of the Ijevan
province of Armenia in 1926. He graduated from Yerevan State University
in 1948 with degrees in philology, and Armenian language and literature.
After receiving his doctorate, Tamrazian began teaching at Yerevan State
University and became the chair of Armenian literature department in 1968.
Hrant Tamrazian
has published numerous literary works over the past three decades He has
conducted extensive research on the lives and works of writers such as
Shirvanzadeh, Siamanto, Arsen Derderian, Terenik Demirjian, Yeghishe Charents,
Vahan Derian and others. Tamrazian is also the author of the volumes titled
Armenian Criticism, and has prepared numerous textbooks on Armenian
literature and the history of Armenian literature for
schools and universities throughout Armenia. In fact, his ninth grade textbook
on Armenian literature was in continuous publication from 1957-1986
A selection
of his work has also been published in Russian in Moscow. Tamrazian was
awarded first prize by the Armenian writers union for his book Yeridasart
Charentsuh.
A special governmental commission has been created, headed
by the President of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) Fadei
Sargsian, to deal with Tamrazian?s burial.
-(Armenpress)
Stella Sachkalian Rustigian of Wethersfield, Connecticut died on November 20, 2000. She was a graduate of Syracuse University. she was active in many national and international organizations.
Prof. Dr. Julies Assfalg, a member of SAS as well as of AIEA, passed away recently. He was a very great orientalist and made considerable contributions to Armenian Studies.
