UCLA CONFERENCE ON ARMENIAN COMMUNITIES OF ASIA MINOR TO HAVE STRONG VISUAL COMPONENT

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Feb 26th, 2010

WESTWOOD, CA-The Armenian Communities of Asia Minor from Adabazar,
Bursa, and Banderma to Kutahia and Konia will be featured at UCLA
on Saturday, March 20. This is the 18th and final conference in the
international series, "Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces,"
sponsored by the Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern
Armenian History and organized by Professor Richard G. Hovannisian.

The program will be held on the UCLA campus in 1200 Rolfe Hall from
9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Among the presenters is Mr. Osman Koker of Istanbul, editor and
publisher of Orlando C. Calumeno’s extensive postal card collection
depicting the Armenian communities of the Ottoman Empire a hundred year
ago and before. His illustrated talk on Saturday morning is titled
"From Banderma and Erminikoy to Armash: Armenians of the Marmara
Region." This presentation will be complemented in the afternoon
sessions with that of Ruth Thomasian of the Project SAVE Armenian
Photograph Archives, "Armenian Communities of Asia Minor as Seen
through the Photograph."

Others on the program include Prof. Richard Hovannisian, with an
overview of the Armenian communities of Asia Minor; Prof. Peter
Cowe of UCLA on the Konia community during the Seljuk period;
Ms. Dawn MacKeen of Los Angeles on Adabazar; Ara Melkonian of
London on Bardizag; Dr. Barbara Merguerian of Boston on Laura
Farnham and schools for Armenian girls in Adabazar and Bardizag;
Dr. Hasmik Khalapyan of Yerevan State University on the role of the
theater among the Armenians of Asia Minor; Dr. Arpi Vardumyan of the
Matenadaran in Yerevan on the Armenian musical culture of Kutahia;
and Prof. Simon Payaslian of Boston University on the demise of the
Armenian communities in Asia Minor.

The conference is supported by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern
Studies, Center for European and Eurasian Studies, Bob and Nora Movel
Fund, and the Organization of Istanbul Armenians. It is open to the
public at no charge. Parking is available in lot 5, entrance from
Sunset Blvd at Royce Drive (between Westwood Blvd. and Hilgard Ave,
with a fee). Limited free street parking is available on Hilgard Ave.

and on Westholme Ave. between Hilgard and Warner. For UCLA parking
maps, see:

For additional conference information: hovannis@history.ucla.edu