UCLA Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies

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2014 Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies
Friday, February 28, 2014 . UCLA Royce Hall 314

The event is free and open to public

9:30 – 10:00 AM Breakfast

10:00 – 10:15 AM Opening Remarks

Narine Jallatyan . Co-Project Director, 2014
Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies

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

Session 1 . MYTH AND RELIGION AS INSTRUMENTS OF INTEGRATION,

DIFFERENTIATION, AND CONTESTATION

Chair: Ani Honarchian . Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA

10:15 – 10:35 Aline Housepian . Center of Semiotic Research, University of
Limoges (France)

“Comparative Armeno-Anatolian Myth: Toward the
Origins of Common Folk Beliefs”

10:35 – 10:55 Nikoloz Alexidze . School of Governance and Social Sciences,
Free University of Tbilisi (Georgia)

“Imagining Caucasian History: The Narrative of the
Church Schism in Armeno-Georgian Relations”

10:55 – 11:15 Ashkhen Davtyan . Department of Medieval Studies, Central
European University, Budapest (Hungary)

“Sacred Space in Duin”

11:15 – 11:30 Discussion

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break

Session 2 . THE VARIED IMPACT OF NATIONALISM ON THE ARMENIAN

POLITY AND PATRIMONY

Chair: Anoush Suny . Anthropology, UCLA

11:45 – 12:05 Anahit Kartashyan . Faculty of Asian and African Studies,
St. Petersburg State University (Russia)

“The Draft Armenian National Constitution of 1857 and its Evolution
to the Final Version of 1863”

12:05 – 12:25 Murad Yildiz . Department of History, UCLA

“Building Robust Armenian Bodies and a Strong
Armenian Nation in Late Ottoman Istanbul”

12:25 – 12:45 Shushan Kerovpyan . Department of History, Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France)

“Destruction and Reconstruction of the Armenian
Heritage in Turkey”

12:45 – 1:00 Discussion

1:00 – 2:15 Lunch

Session 3 . LINGUISTICS AND DIALECTOLOGY

Chair: Daniel Fittante . Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA

2:15 – 2:35 Hasmik Sargsyan . Faculty of Empirical Linguistics,
Goethe-University, Frankfurt (Germany)

“The Dialect of Karabakh in Language Contact: Remarks
on Phonetic Features and Lexicon”

2:35- 2:45 Discussion

Session 4 . THE ROLE OF CULTURE IN GENERATING SYMBOLIC IDENTITY

IN THE ARMENIAN DIASPORA

Chair: Marine Aykazyan . French and Francophone Studies, UCLA

2:45 – 3:05 Vana S. Nazarian . Department of Art History, Concordia
University, Montreal (Canada)

“Familiar Faces and Nostalgic Places: Family
Photographs as Instruments of Memory and Identity in the Montreal Armenian
Community”

3:05 – 3:25 Rik Adriaans . Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central
European University, Budapest (Hungary)

“Ararat Beyond Representation: Heritage Souvenirs and
the Materiality of Diaspora Return”

3:25 – 3:40 Discussion

3:40 – 3:55 Tea Break

Session 5 . EDUCATION AS TRANSFORMATION: AN ASSESSMENT OF SOME

CONTEMPORARY INITIATIVES

Chair: Shushan Karapetyan . Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA

3:55 – 4:15 Korioun Khatchadourian. Issy-Les-Moulineaux (France)

“A New Pedagogical Approach to Armenian Language
Transmission in the Diaspora: A Case Study of the Mgnig Educational
Workshop”

4:15 – 4:35 Satenik Lazarian . Department of Anthropology,
Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi (Georgia)

“Constructing National Identity through Elementary
Education”

4:35 – 4:55 Garine Palandjian . Student Affairs, Armenian University
of Armenia, Erevan (Armenia)

“(Re)Piecing Peace through of Education: A Case
Study of Peace Education Curricula in Four Regions of Armenia”

4:55- 5:15 Discussion

5:15 – 5:25 Guest Speaker . Levon Marashlian, Professor of History, Glendale
City College

5:25 – 6:30 Reception