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UCLA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
SERIES IN ARMENIAN STUDIES
The Ebb and Flow of the
Armenian Communities of the Indian Ocean
Sponsored By:
The Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History,
Co-sponsored by the Center for India and South Asia, UCLA International
Institute, Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies and the AGBU Western
District Committee.
Saturday, March 17, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Court of Sciences 50, UCLA
Sunday, March 18, 2:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Court of Sciences 50, UCLA
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Saturday,
March 17, 2007
9:30 A.M.-5:30 P.M. |
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Presentation: |
Presenter: |
Establishment: |
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Introduction - Ebb and Flow
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Richard G. Hovannisian |
UCLA |
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Armenian Mercantile Communities in Southeast Asia |
Margaret Sarkissian |
Smith College,
Northampton, Massachusetts |
| 3 |
From Dispersion to
Nation: Armenian Diasporic Speculations in 18th-Century India |
Khachig Tölölyan |
Wesleyan University |
| 4 |
The Indian Interlude
in the Development of Modern Armenian Drama |
S. Peter Cowe |
UCLA |
| 5 |
“Azdarar” and Other
Armenian Periodicals of India |
Osheen Keshishian |
Glendale Community
College |
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Joseph Emin and
British Colonial Policy in Calcutta |
Mana Kia |
Harvard University |
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Colonial Counterflows:
An Armenian Lady from Agra in London, circa 1610 |
Michael Fisher |
Oberlin College |
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Khwaja Gorgin Khan: An
18th-Century Armenian General of the Bengal Army |
Bhaswati Bhattacharya |
University of Leiden |
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Notables and
Benefactors (with a film on Sir Catchick Paul Chater) |
Richard G. Hovannisian |
UCLA |
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Armenian-American GIs
and the Armenian Community of India in World War II |
Gregory Aftandilian |
Harvard University |
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The Present State of
the Indo-Armenian Community |
Armen Baibourtian |
Erevan, First Armenian
Ambassador to India |
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Sunday,
March 18, 2007
2:00 P.M.-5:30 P.M. |
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Presentation: |
Presenter: |
Establishment: |
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French Commercial Ambitions and Armenian
Interlocutors in 17th-Century Asia
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Sanjay
Subrahmanyam |
UCLA |
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Long
Distance Merchants and the Role of Julfan “Networks of Trust” |
Sebouh
Aslanian |
Columbia
University |
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Don Pedro
di Zaratte: A Julfan Armenian in Mexico City, 1723-31. |
Tatiana
Seijas |
Yale
University |
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General
Discussion |
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