PRESS RELEASE
UCLA Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies
Contact: Prof. S. Peter Cowe
Tel: 310-825-1307
Email: cowe@humnet.ucla.edu

2015 Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
Friday, February 6, 2015 =95 UCLA Royce Hall 314
The event is free and open to public

9:30 – 10:00 AM Breakfast
10:00 – 10:10 Opening Remarks

Daniel Fittante – Project Director, 2015 Graduate Student Colloquium
in Armenian Studies

Dr. S. Peter Cowe – Professor and Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies at UCLA

PANEL 1 – ARMENIANS IN THE RUSSIAN AND OTTOMAN EMPIRES
Chair: Ani Shahinian – Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA

10:10 – 10:30 Stephen B. Riegg – Department of History,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
`Spies and Settlers: Armenians in the Russian Service, 1804-13′

10:30 – 10:50 Urban Jaksa – Department of Politics, University of York (England)
Geopolitics of Genocide: Comparing the Ottoman and Russian Empire’s
Ethnic Cleansing Policies against Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and
Circassians in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries’

10:50 – 11:00 Discussion

PANEL 2 – PREHISTORIC PASTORALISM
Chair: Kristine Olshansky – Archaeology, UCLA

11:00 – 11:20 Hannah Rachel Chazin – Department
of Anthropology,
University of Chicago (US)
`Understanding Pastoralist Activities in Prehistoric Armenia:
Integrating Zooarchaeology and Isotope Analysis’

11:20 – 11:25 Discussion

11:25 – 11:45 Coffee/Tea Break

PANEL 3 – DIASPORA AND IDENTITY
Chair: Ara Soghomonian, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA

11:45 – 12:05 Hakob A. Matevosyan – Institute for the Study of Culture,
Leipzig University (Germany)
`Dimensions of Diasporic Identities: Armenians in Hungary’

12:05 – 12:25 Syuzanna Barseghyan – Institute of Archaeology and
Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (Armenia)
`The Role of Ethnic Media in the Armenian Diaspora’

12:25 – 12:45 Karen Jallatyan – Department of Comparative Literature,
University of California at Irvine
`Cinematographic Constructions of Armenian Identity in the Films of
Gariné Torrosian and Atom Egoyan’

12:45 – 1:05 Artak Beglaryan – Drastamat Kanayan Institute for National
Strategic Studies (INSS) of the Republic of Armenian Ministry of Defense (Armenia)
`U.S. Armenian Lobbies and their Involvement in the Artsakh Cause’

1:05 – 1:25 Discussion

1:25 – 3:00 Lunch

PANEL 4 – MERCANTILE ACTIVITY
Chair: Anatolii Tokmantcev – Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA

3:00 – 3:20 Sona Tajiryan- Department of History, University of California
at Los Angeles (US)
`Agha di Matus, 1635-1709: An Armenian Diamond and Gem Merchant in
Livorno and Venice”

3:20 – 3:40 Kathryn Jane Franklin – Department of Anthropology,
University of Chicago (US)
`A Route of Trade and a Road to Progress: the Silk Road in Medieval
and Contemporary Armenian politics’

3:40 – 3:50 Discussion

PANEL 5 – LEXICOGRAPHICAL MANUSCRIPTS
Chair: Ani Honarchian – Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA

3:50 – 4:10 Ester Petrosyan – Department of
Medieval Studies, Central
European University (Hungary)
`Syriac Manuscript 11: A Tri-lingual Dictionary Kept in the Library of
the Franciscan Order in Cairo (A Detailed Examination)’

4:10 – 4:15 Discussion

4:15 – 4:35 Coffee/Tea Break

PANEL 6 – GENDER AND FAMILY DYNAMICS
Chair: Rosie Aroush – Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA

4:35 – 4:55 Milena Oganesyan – Department of Anthropology, University
of Montana-Missoula (US)
`Living on the Fault Lines: A Study of Armenian-Georgian Intermarriage in Georgia’

4:55 – 5:15 Elli Ponomareva – Department of Anthropology, European
University at Saint Petersburg
`Male Street Culture in Yerevan and its Manifestation in Various Social Contexts’

5:15 – 5:35 Ani Jilozian – Global Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine
at Mount Sinai (US)
`Giving Women a Voice: Perceptions & Experiences with Contraception &
Abortion in Rural Armenia’

5:35 – 5:50 Discussion

5:50 – 6:00 Guest Speaker – Marc Mamigonian, Director of Academic
Affairs of the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)

6:00 – 6:10 Presentation of the Berekian Armenian Collection of Manuscripts
and Printed Books

6:10-7:00 Reception

Free and open to the public.

Pay-by-space parking and all day parking ($12) available in Lot 2 & 3.
Parking Pay Station Map | Interactive UCLA Campus Map

From: Baghdasarian