UCLA—The Armenian Communities of the region of ancient Cappadocia and modern Kesaria (Gesaria/Kayseri) will be featured as the twelfth in the UCLA international conference series on “Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces.” The day-long symposium will be held on Saturday, May 17, 2003, from 9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on the UCLA campus in Young Hall 50 in the Court of Sciences. Scholars from Argentina, Armenia, France, Great Britain, and the United States will examine the Armenian history and culture of this important crossroad and early Christian center between Greater Armenia and Cilicia. The papers focus on the Armenian presence in Cappadocia and Kesaria from ancient to modern times, the connection of Gregory the Illuminator and Armenian Christianity with Caesarea/Kesaria, the Armenian art, architecture, crafts, textiles, and local dialects of the region, the rural communities such as Chomakhlu, Everek-Fenesse, Tomarza, Talas, and Efkere, the deterioration of conditions in the 19th century, the elimination of the Armenian inhabitants in the 20th century, and the surviving Kesaratsi communities in the Diaspora.
The conference is organized by Professor Richard G. Hovannisian, Holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History at UCLA. Previous conferences in this series have featured Armenian Van/Vaspurakan; Baghesh/Bitlis and Taron/Mush; Tsopk/Kharpert; Karin/Erzerum; Sebastia/Sivas; Tigranakert/Diarbekir and Edessa/Urfa; Cilicia; Constantinople; Kars and Ani; the Black Sea-Pontus Region; and Smyrna/Izmir. The proceedings of the first three conferences on Van, Bitlis-Mush, and Kharpert have now been fully edited and published and are available from local Armenian bookstores or by contacting Professor Hovannisian. The volume on Karin/Erzerum will be released in the summer of 2003.
The Kesaria conference is open to the public at no charge. Parking is available in structure no. 2 for $7.00 all day, entrance from Hilgard Avenue at Westholme Avenue. For the UCLA campus map (southeast sector) on the internet, go to www.ucla.edu/map/. See also the UCLA Armenian Studies web site at www.UCLAArmenian.org. For further information, e-mail Professor Richard Hovannisian at Hovannis@history.ucla.edu or telephone a.m. hours: 310-825-3375. The conference program is as follows:
Morning Sessions, 9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Armenia and Cappadocia-Kesaria
Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA
Armenia and Cappadocia in the Pre-Christian Period
James R. Russell, Harvard University
Caesarea and Traditions about Saint Gregory’s Consecration
Robert W. Thomson, Oxford University
Armenian Christian Martyrs in Asia Minor, 3rd-4th Centuries
Erna Shirinian, Matenadaran, Erevan
INTERMISSION
Armenian Miniature Painting in Cappadocia in the 11th Century
Dickran Kouymjian, California State University, Fresno
The Armenian Silversmiths of 17th and 18th Century Kesaria,
Sylvie Merian, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Caesarea/Kesaria in the 19th Century,
Bedross Der Matossian, Columbia University
DISCUSSION
LUNCH INTERMISSION
Afternoon Sessions, 2:00-6:00 p.m.
The Armenian Community of Efkere
Jonathan Varjabedian, Los Angeles
Rural Kesaria: Talas, Tomarza, Everek-Fenesse, Chomakhlu
Herve Georgelin, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Armenian Textiles and Dress of Kesaria
Tina Demirdjian, Armenian Dress and Textile Project, Glendale
INTERMISSION
The Fateful Years: Kesaria during the Genocide
Simon Payaslian, Clark University, Worcester
Kesaratsis in South America
Vartan Matiossian, University del Salvador, Buenos Aires,
and Hovnanian School, New Jersey.
The Kesaria (Gesaratsi) Armenian Dialect
Bert Vaux, Harvard University
DISCUSSION
Photographic Exhibit by Richard and Anne Elizabeth Elbrecht
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