EBB AND FLOW OF THE ARMENIAN COMMUNITIES OF THE INDIAN OCEAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

UCLA Asia Institute, CA
March 13 2007

March 17, 2007-Saturday Morning (9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.)

Introduction-Ebb and Flow. Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA

Armenian Settlements and Cultural Life

Chair and Discussant: Engseng Ho, Harvard University

Armenian Mercantile Communities in Southeast Asia. Margaret Sarkissian,
Smith College

>>From Dispersion to Nation: Armenian Diasporic Speculations in
18th-Century India.

SATURDAY, March 17 (9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.)

Morning Session: 9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Introduction-Ebb and Flow Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA

"Armenian Settlements and Cultural Life" Chair and Discussant:
Engseng Ho, Harvard University

Armenian Mercantile Communities in Southeast Asia Margaret Sarkissian,
Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts >>From Dispersion to Nation:
Armenian Diasporic Speculations in 18th-Century India Khachig Tololyan,
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut The Indian Interlude in
the Development of Modern Armenian Drama Peter Cowe, UCLA INTERMISSION
"Azdarar" and Other Armenian Periodicals of India Osheen Keshishian,
Glendale Community College Joseph Emin and British Colonial Policy in
Calcutta Mana Kia, Harvard University General Discussion LUNCH RECESS

Afternoon Session: 2:00-:5:30 p.m.

"Indo-Armenian History and Relations" Chair and Discussant: Houri
Berberian, California State University, Long Beach

Colonial Counterflows: An Armenian Lady from Agra in London, circa 1610
Michael Fisher, Oberlin College Khwaja Gorgin Khan: An 18th-Century
Armenian General of the Bengal Army Bhaswati Bhattacharya, University
of Leiden Notables and Benefactors (with a film on Sir Catchick Paul
Chater) Richard Hovannisian, UCLA INTERMISSION Armenian-American
GIs and the Armenian Community of India in World War II Gregory
Aftandilian, Harvard University The Present State of the Indo-Armenian
Community Armen Baibourtian, Erevan, First Armenian Ambassador to
India General Discussion

SUNDAY, March 18 (2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.)

"Long Distance Merchants and Julfan Trade in the Indian Ocean" Chair
and Discussant: Edward A. Alpers, UCLA

French Commercial Ambitions and Armenian Interlocutors in 17th-Century
Asia Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA Long Distance Merchants and the Role
of Julfan "Networks of Trust" Sebouh Aslanian, Columbia University
Don Pedro di Zaratte: A Julfan Armenian in Mexico City, 1723-31.

Tatiana Seijas, Yale University General Discussion

Concluding Remarks

Khachig Tololyan, Wesleyan University

The Indian Interlude in the Development of Modern Armenian Drama.

Peter Cowe, UCLA

Refreshments

"Azdarar" and Other Armenian Periodicals of India. Osheen Keshishian,
Glendale Community College

Joseph Emin and British Colonial Policy in Calcutta . Mana Kia,
Harvard University

General Discussion

Lunch Recess: 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Saturday Afternoon: (2:00-5:30 p.m.)

Indo-Armenian History and Relations

Chair and Discussant: Houri Berberian (California State University,
Long Beach)

Colonial Counterflows: An Armenian Lady from Agra in London, circa
1610. Michael Fisher, Oberlin College

Khwaja Gorgin Khan: An 18th-Century Armenian General of the Bengal
Army. Bhaswati Bhattacharya, University of Leiden

Notables and Benefactors (with a film on Sir Catchick Paul Chater).

Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA

Refreshments

Armenian-American GIs and the Armenian Community of India in World
War II. Gregory Aftandilian, Harvard University

The Present State of the Indo-Armenian Community. Armen Baibourtian,
Erevan, First Armenian Ambassador to India

General Discussion

Sunday March 18: (2:00-5:30 p.m.)

Long Distance Merchants and Julfan Trade in the Indian Ocean

Chair and Discussant: Edward A. Alpers, UCLA

French Commercial Ambitions and Armenian Interlocutors in 17th-Century
Asia. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA

Long Distance Merchants and the Role of Julfan "Networks of Trust".

Sebouh Aslanian, Columbia University

Don Pedro di Zaratte: A Julfan Armenian in Mexico City, 1723-31.

Tatiana Seijas, Yale University

General Discussion

Concluding Remarks

Photographic Exhibit by Richard and Anne Elizabeth Elbrecht, Davis

Date: Sunday, March 18, 2007

Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Court of Sciences 50 (Young Hall) UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095

Cost: Open to the Public at No Charge

Special Instructions Parking: Structure 2 ($8.00), UCLA Entrance,
Hilgard and Westholme Avenues.

For more information please contact Richard Hovanissian

Posted by: Center for European and Eurasian Studies

Sponsor(s): Center for European and Eurasian Studies, UCLA
International Institute, Center for India and South Asia, Department
of History, Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian
History, G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies

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