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Saturday, May 16, 1998
9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
The third in a series of international conferences on
Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces
was hosted by UCLA on Saturday, May 16, 1998. This conference focused on Armenian Kharpert (Kharberd, Harput), Historic Tsopk (Sophene), from antiquity to the twentieth century, with the participation of scholars from Europe, South America, and the United States. The conference
was organized by Professor Richard Hovannisian, Holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History, in cooperation with the Grigor Narekatsi
Chair.
Sponsored By:
The Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History, University of California, Los Angeles
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Saturday,
May 16 , 1998, 9:30 a.m.- 6:30 p.m. |
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| 1 |
Kharpert and Its Golden Plain: An Introduction
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Richard
Hovannisian |
UCLA |
| 2 |
Kharpert-Malatia (Tsopk-Melitene) and Armenian Origins |
Vartan Matiossian |
Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires |
| 3 |
Movses Khorenatsi’s Myth of Tork |
David Stephen Calonne |
Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| 4 |
Southwestern Armenia as a Roman Frontier, 189 B.C.-299 A.D. |
Everett L. Wheeler |
Duke University |
| 5 |
The Five “Peoples” of Tsopk-Sophene, 3rd-6th Centuries |
Robert H. Hewsen |
Rowan University of New Jersey |
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The Armenian Epic and Digenes Akrites |
James Russell |
Harvard University |
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Medieval Tsopk/Kharpert: Castles, Churches, and
Crusades |
Lucy Der Manielian |
Tufts University |
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From the Image to the Experience of Destruction:
Kharperttsi Writers and Provincial Literature |
Krikor Beledian |
Institut Catholique de Lyon |
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Tlkatentsi as Ideologue of the
Regional Movement in Armenian Literature
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Peter Cowe |
UCLA |
| 10 |
The Heritage of
Euphrates (Armenia) College |
Frank Stone |
University of Connecticut and Trinity College |
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Social Demographics of Kharpert and Its Villages |
Ara Sarafian |
University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor |
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Kharpert: The View from the U.S. Consulate |
Barbara Merguerian |
Editor, Journal of Armenian Studies |
| 13 |
“The Last Days of Kharpert, 1915” (film presentation) |
J. Michael Hagopian |
President, Atlantis Productions |
| 14 |
Vahan Totovents before and
after the Catastrophe |
Marc Nichanian |
Columbia University |
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The Final Armenian Exodus from Kharpert, 1929-30 |
Vahram Shemmassian |
Principal, Merdinian School |
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