UCLA international conference on Indian Ocean Armenians
ArmRadio.am
23.02.2007 12:00
`Ebb and Flow of the Armenian Communities of the Indian Ocean’ is the
theme for the next UCLA international conference, Saturday and Sunday,
March 17-18, 2007. Sixteen scholars from Armenia, Europe, and North
America will discuss the important commercial, cultural, and
intellectual roles of the Armenian communities of Southeast Asia from
the seventeenth through twentieth century.
The Saturday sessions will focus on cultural and intellectual themes,
including the current state of the Indo-Armenian community, while the
Sunday afternoon session will feature three presentations on the
long-distance trade of the New Julfa merchants and their interaction
with the mercantile forces in the Indian Ocean and beyond.
The conference is sponsored by the UCLA Armenian Educational
Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History and co-sponsored by the
Center for India and South Asia, Department of History, International
Institute, Center for Near Eastern Studies, and the AGBU Southern
California District Committee. It is the sixteenth consecutive
conference in the UCLA series on Historic Armenian Cities, Provinces,
and Communities.
As in past conferences in this series, Richard and Anne Elizabeth
Elbrecht of Davis will mount a pictorial exhibit, this one on the
Armenian churches, buildings, and institutions of South Asia.
The conference proceedings in this series are edited and prepared for
publication by Richard Hovannisian. To date, six volumes have been
released: Van/Vaspurakan, Bitlis-Mush/Taron, Kharpert/Tsopk,
Erzerum/Karin, Sivas/Sebastia, and
Diarbekir-Urfa/Tigranakert-Edessa. The seventh, Armenia Cilicia, is
being co-edited with Professor Simon Payaslian of Clark University and
will be published in 2007, to be followed by volumes on the Armenian
communities of Constantinople, Smyrna, the Black Sea-Pontus region,
Kars and Ani, Caesarea, Jerusalem, and New Julfa.