Friday, February 28, 2014 • UCLA Royce Hall 314 The event is free and open to public
9:30 – 10:00 AM Breakfast
10:00 – 10:15 AM Opening Remarks
Narine Jallatyan • Co-Project Director, 2014 Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
Dr. S. Peter Cowe • Professor and Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies at UCLA
Session 1 • MYTH AND RELIGION AS INSTRUMENTS OF INTEGRATION,
DIFFERENTIATION, AND CONTESTATION
Chair: Ani Honarchian • Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA
10:15 – 10:35 Aline Housepian • Center of Semiotic Research, University of Limoges (France)
“Comparative Armeno-Anatolian Myth: Toward the Origins of Common Folk Beliefs”
10:35 – 10:55 Nikoloz Alexidze • School of Governance and Social Sciences, Free University of Tbilisi (Georgia)
“Imagining Caucasian History: The Narrative of the Church Schism in Armeno-Georgian Relations”
10:55 – 11:15 Ashkhen Davtyan • Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary)
“Sacred Space in Duin”
11:15 – 11:30 Discussion
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break
Session 2 • THE VARIED IMPACT OF NATIONALISM ON THE ARMENIAN
POLITY AND PATRIMONY
Chair: Anoush Suny • Anthropology, UCLA
11:45 – 12:05 Anahit Kartashyan • Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St. Petersburg State University (Russia)
“The Draft Armenian National Constitution of 1857 and its Evolution to the Final Version of 1863”
12:05 – 12:25 Murad Yildiz • Department of History, UCLA
“Building Robust Armenian Bodies and a Strong Armenian Nation in Late Ottoman Istanbul”
12:25 – 12:45 Shushan Kerovpyan • Department of History, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France)
“Destruction and Reconstruction of the Armenian Heritage in Turkey”
12:45 – 1:00 Discussion
1:00 – 2:15 Lunch
Session 3 • LINGUISTICS AND DIALECTOLOGY
Chair: Daniel Fittante • Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA
2:15 – 2:35 Hasmik Sargsyan • Faculty of Empirical Linguistics, Goethe-University, Frankfurt (Germany)
“The Dialect of Karabakh in Language Contact: Remarks on Phonetic Features and Lexicon”
2:35– 2:45 Discussion
Session 4 • THE ROLE OF CULTURE IN GENERATING SYMBOLIC IDENTITY
IN THE ARMENIAN DIASPORA
Chair: Marine Aykazyan • French and Francophone Studies, UCLA
2:45 – 3:05 Vana S. Nazarian • Department of Art History, Concordia University, Montreal (Canada)
“Familiar Faces and Nostalgic Places: Family Photographs as Instruments of Memory and Identity in the Montreal Armenian Community”
3:05 – 3:25 Rik Adriaans • Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary)
“Ararat Beyond Representation: Heritage Souvenirs and the Materiality of Diaspora Return”
3:25 – 3:40 Discussion
3:40 – 3:55 Tea Break
Session 5 • EDUCATION AS TRANSFORMATION: AN ASSESSMENT OF SOME
CONTEMPORARY INITIATIVES
Chair: Shushan Karapetyan • Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA
3:55 – 4:15 Korioun Khatchadourian• Issy-Les-Moulineaux (France)
“A New Pedagogical Approach to Armenian Language Transmission in the Diaspora: A Case Study of the Mgnig Educational Workshop”
4:15 – 4:35 Satenik Mkrtchyan • Department of Anthropology, Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi (Georgia)
“Constructing National Identity through Elementary Education”
4:35 – 4:55 Garine Palandjian • Student Affairs, Armenian University of Armenia, Erevan (Armenia)
“(Re)Piecing Peace through of Education: A Case Study of Peace Education Curricula in Four Regions of Armenia”
4:55– 5:15 Discussion
5:15 – 5:25 Guest Speaker • Levon Marashlian, Professor of History, Glendale City College
5:25 – 6:30 Reception
Gönderen: Nurhan Becidyan [anbecid@sprynet.com]
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