Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) 50th Anniversary Conference Program [09/15/24]

DAY THREE

Sunday, September 15, 2024

National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)

395 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA 02478

Breakfast (8:00-9:00 am) (For conference participants only)

Introductory Remarks: Houri Berberian (University of California, Irvine) & Marc Mamigonian (NAASR) (09:00-09:15 am).

Panel 1- Identity Politics and Memory (9:15-11:15 am)

Chair: Richard Antaramian (University of Southern California)

Dzovinar Derderian (University of California, Berkeley): Complicating Relations of Power in the Ottoman Empire Through Armenian Petitions from of Van in the Mid-19th Century

Hasmik Khalapyan (American University of Armenia): Politics and Social Agendas of Fashion Among Ottoman Armenians in the Late Ottoman Empire

Bedros Torosian (University of California, Irvine): Sex, Patriotism, and Redefining Ottoman Citizenship in Exile

Flora Ghazaryan (Central European University): On the Eve of National Awakening: Early 19th Century Sectarian Violence of Armenian Communities in Istanbul

Coffee Break

Panel 2- Translation, Knowledge Production, and Mobility (11:30 am-1:15 pm)

Chair: Helen Makhdoumian (Vanderbilt University)

Henry Shapiro (Ibn Khaldun University): Early Modern Armenian Mobility and the Rise of Diary-Writing

Erin Piñon (Princeton University): Translating Translators: Armenian Vernacular Images in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Hülya Çelik (Ruhr University): Much the Same in Other Words? On Armeno-Turkish Translations in the Early 19th Century

Hratch Kestenian (City University of New York): Between Empires and Epidemics: Armenian Doctors and the Global Circulation of Medical Knowledge in the 19th Century

PARALLEL Panel 2 – Philology, Manuscripts, and Archives (11:30 am-1:15 pm)

Chair: Jirair Libaridian (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Zohrab Gevorgyan (American University of Armenia): The Voyages of “Knowledge” in the Mediterranean According to Venetian and Genoese Notarial Documents Drawn up in Cilician Armenia (13th-14th cent.)

Ani Yenokyan (Matenadaran): The Legacy of the Prominent Bibliophile Vardan Bałišec‘I: Reconstructing the 17th-century Library at Amirdōlu Monastic School

Julia Hintlian (Harvard University): Searching for Molino: Sibyls and Amazons in a 17th-Century Armenian Manuscript

Lunch (1:15-2:15 pm) (For conference participants only)

Panel 3- Art, Architecture, Artists, and Dealers (2:15-4:15 pm)

Chair: Christina Maranci (Harvard University)

Talinn Grigor (University of California, Davis): The Description of Persia’s Notable Edifices and the Diasporicity of post-Safavid Armenian Art History

Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan (University of Lincoln): Life Stories of Armenian-Ottoman Antiquities Dealers: The Curious Case of Dikran Garabed/Khan Kelekian

Vazken Davidian (Oxford University): Exiles, Émigrés, Refugees: Ottoman Armenian Artists and The Arts of Dispersion

Sato Moughalian (City University of New York): The Union of Armenian Artists, 1916-1921: A Cultural Expression of “Nation”

PARALLEL Panel 3 – Architecture, Landscape, Memory, and the Senses (2:15-4:15 pm)

Chair: Rachel Goshgarian (Lafayette College)

Anahit Galstyan (University of California, Santa Barbara): Living with the Dead: Commemoration and Senses in Medieval Anatolia

Whitney Kite (Columbia University): The Virtues of Tillage: Interactions Between Monastery and Landscape and Tat’ev

Polina Ivanova (Harvard University): Land Inscribed in Stone and Parchment: Historical Geography, Local Memory, and Archiving Practices in the Story of a Fourteenth-Century Armenian Endowment, Its Ottoman Life, and Modern Afterlife

Coffee Break

Future Directions of the Field(s): An Open Discussion (4:30-6:00 pm)

Chair: Tsolin Nalbantian (Leiden University)

Artsakh Cultural Heritage – Lori Khatchadourian (Cornell University), Simon Maghakyan (California State University, Fresno)

Armenian Diaspora Studies – Hratch Tchilingirian (Oxford University), Khachig Tölölyan (Wesleyan University)

Armenian-American Studies – Nora Lessersohn (Harvard University)

Armenian History for the Twenty-First Century – Aram Ghoogasian (Princeton University)

Concluding Remarks (6:00-6:15 pm)

Barlow Der Mugrdechian (California State University, Fresno)

Dinner (7:30-10:00 pm) (For conference participants only)

Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) 50th Anniversary Conference Program

Honoring the Greatest Generation, featuring Beantown Swing Orchestra

Light Up Seaport 2024

#GIGGLINGTUESDAY: A Prison Book Program Fundraiser

SMALL⭐ MART HOLIDAY MARKETS at Crystal Ballroom in Davis Square ️⛄

Charles Dickens' ‘A Christmas Carol'