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UCLA AEF Chair in Armenian History
Contact: Prof. Richard Hovannisian
Tel: 310-825-3375
Email: [email protected]
Ebb and Flow of the Armenian Communities of the Indian Ocean
International Conference, March 17-18, 2007
Saturday 9:30-5:00, Sunday 2:00-5:00
University of California, Los Angeles
Court of Sciences 50 (Young Hall)
Sponsored by
Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History
Co-Sponsored by
Center for India and South Asia
Department of History
International Institute
G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies
and the
AGBU Southern California District Committee
March 17: Saturday Morning (9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.)
Introduction-Ebb and Flow
Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA
Armenian Settlements and Cultural Life
Chair and Discussant: Engseng Ho, Harvard University
Armenian Mercantile Communities in Southeast Asia
Margaret Sarkissian, Smith College
From Dispersion to Nation: Armenian Diasporic Speculations in 18th-Century
India
Khachig Tölölyan, Wesleyan University
The Indian Interlude in the Development of Modern Armenian Drama
Peter Cowe, UCLA
Refreshments
`Azdarar’ and Other Armenian Periodicals of India
Osheen Keshishian, Glendale Community College
Joseph Emin and British Colonial Policy in Calcutta
Mana Kia, Harvard University
Lunch Recess: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Saturday Afternoon: (2:00-5:00 p.m.)
Indo-Armenian History and Relations
Chair and Discussant: Houri Berberian (California State University, Long Beach)
Colonial Counterflows: An Armenian Lady from Agra in London, circa 1610
Michael Fisher, Oberlin College
Khwaja Gorgin Khan: An 18TH-Century Armenian General of the Bengal Army
Bhaswati Bhattacharya, University of Leiden
Notables and Benefactors (with a film on Sir Catchick Paul Chater)
Richard G. Hovannisian, UCLA
Refreshments
Armenian-American GIs and the Armenian Community of India in World War II
Gregory Aftandilian, Harvard University
The Present State of the Indo-Armenian Community
Armen Baibourtian, Erevan, First Armenian Ambassador to India
Sunday March 18: (2:00-5:00 p.m.)
Long Distance Merchants and Julfan Trade in the Indian Ocean
Chair and Discussant: Edward A. Alpers, UCLA
French Commercial Ambitions and Armenian Interlocutors in 17th-Century Asia
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, UCLA
Long Distance Merchants and the Role of Julfan `Networks of Trust’
Sebouh Aslanian, Columbia University
Don Pedro di Zaratte: A Julfan Armenian in Mexico City, 1723-31.
Tatiana Seijas, Yale University
Photographic Exhibit by Richard and Anne Elizabeth Elbrecht, Davis
Open to the Public at No Charge. Parking: Structure 2 ($8.00), UCLA
Entrance, Hilgard at Westholme Avenue
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