[Discussion] CONF.- Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces, UCLA, May 4-5 (fwd)

[Gonul Pultar]

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Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 15:44:47 -0800
From: Richard G. Hovannisian <hovannis@history.ucla.edu>
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Subject: CONF.- Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces, UCLA, May 4-5

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CONF.- Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces, UCLA, May 4-5

Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces Series
University of California, Los Angeles
The Tenth in the Series

The Armenian Communities of the Black Sea-Pontus Region

May 4-5, 2002, Dickson Auditorium, UCLA

Saturday, May 4, 2002

Morning Session, 9:30 -1:00

1. The Black Sea Armenian Coastal Communities: An Introduction
    Richard Hovannisian, UCLA

2. Armenians on the Black Sea--The Pontic Shore
    Robert Hewsen, California State University, Fresno

3. Contacts between Armenia and Pontus in the Pre-Christian Period
    Richard Wilkinson, London

4. Armenia, Armenians, and the Black Sea to the 7th Century
    Babken Harutiunyan, Erevan State University

5. The Byzantine Province of the Armeniakon in the 7th and 8th Centuries
    Mikael Nichanian, Universite de Paris IV

6. Armenian Connections with Medieval Trebizond
    Abraham Terian, St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, New York

7. The 15th-Century Paintings of the Kaymakli Monastery in Trebizond
    Thomas Sinclair, University of Cyprus

Lunch Break

Afternoon Session, 2:00-5:30 p.m.

8. Armenian Communities in the Southern Crimea in the 16th Century
    Oleksandr Halenko, National Academy, Kiev, Ukraine

9. Foundations of Hamshen and Armenian Descent Myths: Parallels and
    Interconnections,
    A. Elizabeth Redgate, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

10. The Islamization of the Hamshentsis/Hemshinli
    Claire Mouradian, CNRS (Centre d'etudes du monde russe, sovietique et post-
    sovietique), Paris

Intermission

11. Armenian Manuscript Illumination during the Dark Ages: The Images of
    Hamshen
    Christina Maranci, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

12. History and Identity among the Hemshinli
    Hovann Simonian, University of Southern California

13. Homshetsma: The Language of the Hamshen Muslim Armenians
    Bert Vaux, Harvard University

Sunday, May 5, 2002

Morning Session, 10:00-12:30
    Session in Armenian

1. Azzi-Hayasa on the Black Sea? Another Puzzle of Armenian Origins
    Vartan Matiossian, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires

2. Armenian Architecture and Town Quarters in the Pontus Region
    David Kertmenian, School of Architecture and Construction, Erevan

3. The Artvin-Artanuch District and Its Monuments
    Aleksandr Kananov, Research on Armenian Architecture, Tbilisi

4. Trebizond, the Genocide, and the Postwar Turkish Courts-Martial
    Avetis Papazian, Los Angeles, formerly Institute of History, Erevan

End of Armenian Session

LUNCH

May 5, Afternoon Session, 1:30-5:30
    Session in English

5. Minas Pzhshkian and the "History of Pontus"--Pontosi Patmutiun
    Marc Nichanian, Columbia University

6. The Black Sea Armenian Communities in the 19th Century
    Bedross Der Matossian, Jerusalem and Columbia University

7. Revolution, Reform, and Repression: The Armenians of Trebizond in 1895
    Barbara Merguerian, Armenian International Women's Association, Boston

Intermission

8. The Fate of the Black Sea Armenian Communities, 1908-1915
    Simon Payaslian, UCLA

9. The Competition for Trebizond, 1916-1920
    Richard Hovannisian, UCLA

10. Armenian Pontic Communities in Abkhazia and the Kuban
    Igor Kuznetsov, Kuban State University, Krasnodar

for additional information on the program or hotel accommodations:
Richard Hovannisian: Hovannis@history.ucla.edu