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The UCLA Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History, Co-sponsored by the UCLA G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies and Center for European, Eurasian Studies International Institute and the Armenian Society of Los Angeles.

  • Friday, May 14, 7:30 - 10:00 P.M. Session in Glendale Presbyterian Church 125 South Louise Street [at Harvard], Glendale, California
  • Saturday, May 15, 9: 30 A.M. - 5:30 P.M. and Sunday, 1:30-5:30 P.M. Sessions in UCLA, Court of Sciences 50
Friday, May 14, 2004
7:30 P.M.- 10:00 P.M.
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1

Conference Opening: Armenian-Persian Relations

Richard G. Hovannisian  UCLA
2 Salmast - It's History, Ethnography, and Role Onnik Hayrapetian Mashdotz College and Glendale Community College
3 The Life and Work of Archbishop Nerses Melik-Tangian, Prelate of Atrpatakan Gohar Avagyan National Archives of Armenia, Erevan
4 The Monasteries of Saint Thaddeus (Tadé) and Dzordzor Armen Hakhnazarian Research on Armenian Architecture, Aachen, Germany


Saturday, May 15, 2004
9:30 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
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1 The Armenian Communities of Iran—An Introduction Richard G. Hovannisian UCLA
2 Armenian Iran in the History of Vaspurakan, 9th-10th Centuries Anne Elizabeth Redgate University of Newcastle, England
3 Armenian Activities in Tabriz under the Il-Khans, 13th-14th Centuries S. Peter Cowe UCLA
4 Armenian Reactions to the Fall of the Principality of Maku in 1426 Hovann Simonian USC
5 Ottoman Military Operations in Azerbayjan, the Silk Trade, and the Armenians, 16th-18th Centuries Thomas Sinclair University of Cyrus, Nicosia
6 Epigraphic Documents (Inscriptions) as a Source for Study of the Socio-Political Life of the Armenians in Northern Iran, 17th-19th Centuries Gabriella Uluhogian University of Bologna, Italy
7 Armenian Rural Settlements in Central Iran, 17th-19th Centuries Vazken Ghougassian Prelacy of the Armenian Church, New York
8 The Place of the Atrpatakan Region in the Armenian Liberation Movement Rubina Peroomian UCLA
9 “Our Country”—Iranian-Armenian Identity during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution Houri Berberian California State University, Long Beach
10 The Massacres in Khoi—Experiences of Armenians and Iranians, 1914-1918 RoseMary Cohen Los Angeles
11 Raffi’s Stories on Iranian Armenian Life Gayaneh Hagopian UCLA
12 Hakob Karapents' Iran Anahid Keshishian UCLA
13 Bert Vaux Persian Armenian: The Third Literary Dialect of Modern Armenian University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee


Sunday, May 16, 2004
1:30 - 5:30 P.M.
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1 Bibliographic Sources on the Persian Armenians in the16th and 18th Centuries Armen Ter Stepanyan The Matenadaran, Erevan
2 Armenian Gharadagh Armen Hakhnazarian Research on Armenian Architecture, Aachen, Germany
3 Armenians in the Iranian Theater and Cinema Artsvi Bakhchinyan Erevan
4 The Armenian Bourgeoisie in the Economic Life of Iran, Late 19th -Early 20th Centuries Samvel Stepanyan Institute of Oriental Studies, Erevan                 
5 The Armenian Community of Tehran—Past, Present, Prospects Aida Avanessian Tehran, Iran
6 The Economic and Social Integration of Armenian Iranians in Southern California Claudia Der-Mardirosian and Anny Bakalian UCLA and New York University
  Discussion    
  Photographic Exhibit Richard and Anne Elizabeth Elbrecht Davis, California
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