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The Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History, Co-sponsored by the UCLA Division of Social Sciences, College of Letters and Science, Center for Russian and European Studies

Saturday, May 4, 2002
9:30 A.M.-1:00 P.M.
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The Black Sea Coastal Armenian Communities: An Introduction

Richard Hovannisian  UCLA
2 Armenians on the Black Sea--The Pontic Shore Robert H. Hewsen California State University, Fresno
3 Armenia and Armenians on the Black Sea Coast until the 7th Century Babken Harutyunyan Yerevan State University
4 The Byzantine Province of the Armeniakon in the 7th and 8th Centuries Mikael Nichanian Université de Paris IV
5 The Armenian Ties to Medieval Trebizond Abraham Terian St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, New York
6 Armenian Communities in the Southern Crimea in the 16th Century Oleksandr Halenko National Academy, Kiev, Ukraine

Saturday, May 4, 2002 
2:00 - 5:30 P.M.
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1 The Foundations of Hamshen and Armenian Descent Myths: Parallels and Interconnections A. Elizabeth Redgate University of Newcastle upon Tyne       
2 The Islamization of the Hamshentsis/Hemshinli Claude Moutafian Université de Paris-Nord
3 Trade, Administration, and Cities around Kars and Ani, 14th-16th Centuries Claire Mouradian CNRS (Centre d'études du monde russe, soviétique et post-soviétique), Paris
4 Armenian Manuscript Illumination during the Dark Ages: The Images of Hamshen Christina Maranci University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
5 History and Identity among the Hemshinli Hovann Simonian University of Southern California
6 "Homshetsma": The Language of the Hamshen Muslim Armenians Bert Vaux Harvard University
7 A Pilgrimage to Ordu and the Pontus Vartiter Kotcholosian Hovannisian Southern California Kaiser-Permanente Medical Group
  Discussion    

Sunday, May 5, 2002
10:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
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Azzi-Hayasa on the Black Sea? Another Puzzle of Armenian Origins

Vartan Matiossian Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires
2 Remnants of the Armenian City Quarters and Architectural Legacy of the Pontus David Kertmenjian Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction
3 The Artvin-Artanuch District and Its Monuments Aleksandr Kananov Research on Armenian Architecture, Tbilisi and Yerevan
4 Trebizond, the Genocide, and the Postwar Turkish Courts-Martial Avetis Papazian Los Angeles, formerly Institute of History, Yerevan

Sunday, May 5, 2002
1:30 - 5:00 P.M.
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Minas Pzhshkian and the "History of Pontus"--Patmutiun Pontosi

Marc Nichanian Columbia University
2 The Black Sea Armenian Communities in the 19th Century Bedross Der Matossian Jerusalem and Columbia University
3 Revolution, Reform, and Repression: The Armenians of Trebizond in the 1890s Barbara Merguerian Armenian International Women's Association, Boston
4 The Fate of the Black Sea Armenian Communities, 1908-1915 Simon Payaslian UCLA
5 The Competition for Trebizond, 1916-1920 Richard Hovannisian UCLA
6 Armenian Pontic Communities in Abkhazia and the Kuban Igor Kuznetsov Kuban State University, Krasnodar
  Photographic Exhibit Richard and Anne Elizabeth Elbrecht Davis, California

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