HISTORIC ARMENIAN CITIES AND PROVINCES – KARS AND ANI

The ninth in a series of international conferences on historic Armenian cities and provinces will be hosted by UCLA on Saturday and Sunday, November 10-11, 2001. Kars and Ani will be featured, with the participation of scholars from Argentina, Armenia, Cyprus, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The Saturday Sessions are devoted to the medieval capital cities of Kars and Ani from their founding to the nineteenth century. The Sunday sessions concentrate on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with the Sunday morning session only being conducted in the Armenian language.

Program

	Saturday, November 10, 2001 9:30 A.M.-1:00 P.M.
.	Presentation:	Presenter:	Establishment:
1	Introduction: Armenian Kars and Ani	Richard Hovannisian	UCLA
2	Shirak and Vanand: A Historical Overview	Robert H. Hewsen	California State University, Fresno
3	Emergence of the Bagratuni Kingdom of Kars and Ani	Tim Greenwood	Oxford University
4	The Church of the Holy Apostles at Kars and the Relief of Judas	James R. Russell	Harvard University
5	The Medieval Chroniclers of Ani	Robert W. Thomson	Oxford University
6	The Architect Trdat: From the Great Church at Ani to the Great Church in Constantinople	Christina Maranci	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
7	Vardan Anetsi and His Poem on the Divine Chariot	Theo Maarten van Lint	Leiden University

	Saturday, November 10, 2001 2:00-6:00 P.M.
.	Presentation:	Presenter:	Establishment:
1	The Church of the Holy Savior in Ani	Diane Favro, Philip Stinson, Justina Bandol	UCLA
2	Ani after Ani	Claude Moutafian	Université de Paris-Nord
3	Trade, Administration, and Cities around Kars and Ani, 14th-16th Centuries	Thomas A. Sinclair	University of Cyprus
4	Kars in the Russo-Turkish Wars of the 19th Century	Christopher J. Walker	London
5	Kars in the Armenian Liberation Movement	Rubina Peroomian	UCLA
6	Armenians and Molokans: Karakala, 1889-1920	Joyce Keosababian Bivin	Jerusalem

	Sunday, November 11, 2001 10:30 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
.	Presentation:	Presenter:	Establishment:
1	The Kingdom of Vanand (Kars) within the Bagratuni State Structure	Rafayel Matevossyan	Institute of History, Yerevan
2	The Architectural Heritage of Ani	Sarkis Balmanoukian	Los Angeles
3	The Kars Oblast, 1874-1914	Ashot Melkonian	Institute of History, Yerevan
4	Architectural Expeditions to Ani since 1892	Raymond H. Kevorkian	Centre d’Histoire Arménienne Contemporaine, Université Paris III, Sorbonne nouvelle

	Sunday, November 11, 2001 1:30-5:30 P.M.
.	Presentation:	Presenter:	Establishment:
1	G. I. Gurdjieff and the Armenian Quest in Kars and Ani	David S. Calonne	Wayne State University
2	Kars 1914-1921	Richard Hovannisian	UCLA
3	Kars, Ardahan and Soviet Irredentism, 1945-1946	Robert Krikorian	Harvard University
4	Charents: Mourning the Loss of Kars	Vartan Matiossian	Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, and Hovnanian School, New Jersey
5	Ani and Kars in Post-Charents Soviet Armenian Poetry	Anahid Keshishian	UCLA
6	The Armenian Dialect of Kars	Bert Vaux	Harvard University
	Photographic Exhibit	Richard and Anne Elizabeth Elbrecht	Davis, California

The conference is open to the public without charge. Dickson
Auditorium is in UCLA’s north campus near Sunset Boulevard. Parking will be in structure no. 3 on Hilgard Avenue at Sunset. A map of the UCLA campus may be accessed on the UCLA web site at www.UCLA.edu/map/ The UCLA Armenian Studies
web site
is www.UCLAArmenian.org

To request a conference program by e-mail or
mail,
telephone 310-825-3375 (a.m. hours) or e-mail
Hovannis@history.ucla.edu Persons requiring hotel accommodations may take advantage of a
special
conference rate at the Holiday Inn Brentwood/Bel-Air near the UCLA
campus.
Telephone 310-476-6411. Refer to the Armenian Studies Conference.