PRESS RELEASE
UCLA AEF Chair in Armenian History
Contact: Prof. Richard Hovannisian
Tel: 310-825-3375
Email: Hovannis@history.ucla.edu

Here is the final schedule for this Friday’s colloquium in Armenian
Studies in case you have any use for it.

2010 Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies Friday, February
19, 2010 – UCLA Royce Hall 314

9:30 – 10:00 AM Breakfast
10:00 – 10:15 AM Opening Remarks
Doris Melkonian – Project Director, 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium
in Armenian Studies
Dr. S. Peter Cowe – Professor and Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies
at UCLA

Session 1 – ARMENO-TURKISH LITERARY TIES
Chair: Dr. Talar Chahinian (Comparative Literature, UCLA)
10:15 – 10:35 Mehmet Fatih Uslu – Turkish Literature, Bilkent
University (Turkey)
`Economy and Morality in Hagop Baronian and Ahmet Mithat’
10:35 – 10:55 Alaettin Carikci – Cultural Studies, Sabanci University
(Turkey)
`Narrativization of the Catastrophe in Modern Armenian-Turkish
Literature’
10:55 – 11:10 Discussion
11:10 – 11:30 Coffee Break

Session 2 – RELIGIOUS THEMES AND PRACTICES IN ARMENIAN CULTURE
Chair: Arda Melkonian (Education & Information Studies, UCLA)
11:30 – 11:50 Irene Tinti – Linguistics, University of Pisa (Italy)
`The `Storehouses’ of the Sky in the Septuagint and the Armenian
Bible’
11:50 – 12:10 Roubina Shnorhokian – History, Queen’s University
(Canada)
`Becoming a Premonstratensian: Het`um’s Religious
Self-fashioning’

12:10 – 12:30 Anna Ohanjanyan – History, Yerevan State University
(Armenia)
`The Manuscript `Key of Truth’ and its Historical Evaluation’
12:30 – 12:50 Discussion
12:50 – 2:30 Lunch

Session 3 – ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE ARMENIAN REPUBLIC
Chair: Shushan Karapetian (Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA)
2:30 – 2:50 Konrad Siekierski – Institute of Archaeology and
Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
`Folk Christianity in Contemporary Armenia’

2:50 – 3:10 Alina Poghosyan – Institute of Archaeology and
Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
`Transformation Features of the `Red Apple’ Tradition in the
Capital of Armenia’
3:10 – 3:25 Discussion

Session 4 – LINGUISTICS
Chair: Tamar Boyadjian (Comparative Literature, UCLA)
3:25 – 3:45 Hrayr Khanjian – Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (USA)
`vochmegdegh chkatsadz vochinch chgera: Multiple Negation in Spoken
Western Armenian’

3:45 – 3:55 Discussion
3:55 – 4:10 Tea Break

Session 5 – ARMENIAN LITERARY ISSUES
Chair: Myrna Douzjian (Comparative Literature, UCLA)
4:10 – 4:30 Michael Pifer – Comparative Literature, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA)
`Stunning Acumen, Silenced Solomon: The Speechless Death of the
Exiled Gharib in Armenian Literature’
4:30 – 4:50 Aram Kouyoumdjian – English, California State University,
Northridge (USA)
`A Voice for the ’30s: William Saroyan’s Early Plays and
Proletarian Drama of the Depression Era’

4:50 – 5:10 Vahram Danielyan – Literature, Yerevan State University
(Armenia)
`The Way Leading from Copy-Book to Novel: Gurgen Khanjyan’s
Novels’
5:10 – 5:30 Discussion 5:30 – 5:45 Guest Speaker – Dr. Ramela G.
Abbamontian – Assistant Professor of Art History, Pierce College

5:45 – 7:00 Reception