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Armenian Studies at a Threshold (Day 3)

35th Anniversary Conference of the Society for Armenian Studies

Saturday, March 28, 2009
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
1200 Rolfe Hall
Los Angeles, CA United States

Session 9. Saturday, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Discourse and Violence: Revisiting the Adana Massacres of 1909
Richard Hovannisian, UCLA, Chair
• Ohannes K?l?çda??, Bilgi University, Istanbul, “Ottomanism among the Anatolian Armenians after the 1908 Revolution”
• Bedross Der Matossian, MIT, “From Verbal to Physical Violence: Ihsan Fikri’s Itidal and the Massacres of Adana in 1909”
• Rubina Peroomian, UCLA,“The Poetics of Violence in Literary Responses to the Adana Massacres”

Session 10. Saturday, 10:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
The State of Armenian Studies Chairs and Programs in the United States
Marc Mamigonian, NAASR, Chair (with comments on prehistory of Armenian programs)
• Taner Akçam, Clark University
• Kevork Bardakjian, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
• Peter Cowe, UCLA
• Richard Hrair Dekmejian, USC
• Barlow Der Mugrdechian, California State University-Fresno
• Roberta Ervine, St. Nersess Seminary
• Richard Hovannisian, UCLA
• Jirair Libaridian, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
• Christina Maranci, Tufts University
• Simon Payaslian, Boston University
• Ara Sanjian, Armenian Research Center, UM-Dearborn
• Vahram Shemmassian, California State University-Northridge

Lunch Recess, 12:45-1:30 p.m.

Session 11. Saturday, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Church Politics and Identity
Abraham Terian, St. Nersess Seminary, Chair
• Paul Werth, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, “Rumors and Projects of Ecclesiastical Union: Armenians, Orthodoxy, and the Problem of Confessional Distinctions in Imperial Russia”
• Ara Sanjian, University of Michigan-Dearborn, “The British Foreign Office, the Church of England, and the Crisis in the Armenian Church at Antelias, 1956-1963”
• Marlen Eordegian, Vanderbilt University, “Straddling Religion and Politics: The Case of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem”

Refreshments, 3:00-3:15 p.m.

Session 12. Saturday, 3:15-5:45 p.m.
Armenians, World War II, and Repatriation 
Barbara Merguerian, Armenian International Women’s Association, Chair
• Vartan Matiossian, Hovnanian School, New Jersey, “’White’ Armenians, ‘Aryan’
 Armenians: Combating Racial Views during the First Half of the 20th Century”
• Gregory Aftandilian, Washington, D.C., “World War II as an Enhancer of Armenian-American Second Generation Identity”
• Levon Thomassian, California State University-Northridge, “Summer of ‘42”
• Astrig Atamian, National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Paris, “Being an Armenian Communist in France during the Cold War”
• Sevan Yousefian, UCLA, “The Formation of Soviet Armenian Immigration Policy: Diaspora Networks, Armenian Cadres, and the Postwar Repatriation Campaign”
• Joanne Laycock, University of Manchester, “‘Belongings’: People and Possessions in the Armenian Repatriations, 1947-1949”

Concluding Comments and Discussion, 5:45-6:00 p.m.

ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBIT BY US CHAPTER OF
ARMENIAN ARCHITECTS ASSOCIATON

Conference Sponsors:
Society for Armenian Studies
UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies
USC Institute of Armenian Studies
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
&
The Armenian Studies Programs of
Armenian Center, Columbia University
Armenian Research Center, University of Michigan-Dearborn
California State University-Fresno
California State University-Northridge
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

  
Banquet Sponsor: Armenian Educational Foundation
 

Sponsor(s): Center for European and Eurasian Studies, Center for Near Eastern Studies