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<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>FIRST PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT--UCLA CONFERENCE SERIES
ON</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>HISTORIC ARMENIAN CITIES AND PROVINCES, February
29-March 1, 2008</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The Armenian Communities of the Northeastern
Mediterranean (Musa Dagh - Kessab - Dort-Yol)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>University of California, Los Angeles</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Friday-Saturday -- February 29-March 1,
2008</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Sponsored by the</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern
Armenian History University of California, Los Angeles</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Co-Sponsored by the UCLA</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern
Studies,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Center for European and Eurasian
Studies,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Department of History, International
Institute,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>and the</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Mousa Ler Association of California,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Kessab Educational Association of Los
Angeles</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>--------------------------------------------------------------------------</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Friday, February 29, 2008, 7:30-9:30
p.m.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Opening Session in Armenian: Western Diocese of
the Armenian Church, 3325 N. Glenoaks Boulevard, Burbank, California 91504 (From
Golden State 5 Freeway, Buena Vista Exit, east to Glenoaks, left-north two
blocks)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Opening</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Richard G. Hovannisian, University of California,
Los Angeles</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The Armenian Communities of the Antioch Region:
>From Beylan to Latakia</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Hagop Tcholakian, Karen Jeppe Jemaran,
Aleppo</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The Management of Catastrophes by the People of
Kessab, 1909-1947 Seda Isabelle Mavian, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, Paris</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The Armenians of Musa Dagh/Musaler and Their Oral
Tradition: Synchronic and Diachronic Transformations Verjine Svazlian, Institute
of Archaeology and Ethnography, Yerevan</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Saturday, March 1, 2008, 10:00 a.m.-5:00
p.m.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Sessions in English: UCLA Broad Art Center
2160E</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>(Formerly Dickson Auditorium)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Morning Sessions: 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Introduction: Armenians in the Northeastern
Mediterranean</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Richard G. Hovannisian, University of California,
Los Angeles</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Musa Dagh, Kessab, Dört-Yol</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Views from Project SAVE Armenian Photograph
Archives</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Ruth Thomasian, Project SAVE Archives, Watertown,
Massachusetts</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The Self-Defense of Chork-Marzban/Dort-Yol,
1896-1921</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Minas Kojayan, AGBU Manoogian-Demirjian High
School, Canoga Park</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Musa Dagh in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth
Century</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Vahram Shemmassian, California State University,
Northridge</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>INTERMISSION</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Even Paradise Isn't Perfect: Memories of
Kessab</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Susan Pattie, University College London</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Making of Communal Identities on the
Turkish-Syrian Frontier: Kessab in Comparative Perspective</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Seda Altug, Utrecht University,
Netherlands</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Kessab as a Diasporan Community</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Hagop Tcholakian, Karen Jeppe Jemaran,
Aleppo</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>LUNCH RECESS: 1:00-2:15 p.m.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Lunchtime Readings (1:40-2:00 p.m.)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The Armenian Dialects of Musa Dagh and
Kessab</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Hagop Panossian, Mousaler Association of
California</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Hrair Atikian, Kessab Educational Association of
Los Angeles</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Afternoon Sessions: 2:15-5:00 p.m.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The Oral Tradition of Musa Dagh/Musaler</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Sona Zeitlian, Independent Researcher, Los
Angeles</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Hollywood, Ankara, Washington: The Unmaking of
"The Forty Days of Musa Dagh"</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Ara Soghomonian, University of California, Los
Angeles</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Armenians and Alawites during the Alexandretta
Crisis</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Keith David Watenpaugh, University of California,
Davis</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>INTERMISSION</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Culture and Personality: The Case of
Anjar</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Herant Katchadourian, Stanford
University</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>The Sole Armenian Village Left in
Turkey:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Vakef of Musa Dagh (Samandagh) since
1939</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Vahram Shemmassian, California State University,
Northridge</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Discussion</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Concluding Remarks</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Photographic Exhibit by</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Richard and Anne Elizabeth Elbrecht, Davis,
California</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Open to the Public * No Admission Charge
*</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Parking Structure 3, Entrance from Hilgard
Avenue<SPAN class=930425205-30012008> </SPAN>near Sunset Boulevard ($8.00 daily
fee).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>-----------------------</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Keith David Watenpaugh</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Associate Professor</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Modern Islam, Human Rights & Peace</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>University of California, Davis </FONT><A
href="http://religions.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Watenpaugh"><U><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>http://religions.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Watenpaugh</FONT></U></FONT></A></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>