Saturday, May 17-18, 1997

The first in a series of conferences on Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces was hosted by UCLA on the weekend of May 17-18, 1997. The inaugural conference was on Armenian Van/Vaspurakan, from antiquity to the twentieth century. The conference was organized by Professor Richard Hovannisian, 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

	Saturday, May 17, 1997, 9:30 a.m.– 5:00 p.m.
	Topic:	Presenter:	Institution:
1	Introduction: Armenian Van	Richard Hovannisian	UCLA
2	Van and the Persistence of Memory	James Russell	Harvard University
3	The Kingdom of Vaspurakan and Its Historian	Robert Thomson	Oxford University
4	Relations Between the Kingdoms of Vaspurakan and Ani	Peter Cowe	UCLA
5	Van Under Mongol-Turkmen Domination	Dickran Kouymjian	California State University, Fresno
6	The Art of the Lake Van Region	Alice Taylor	Los Angeles
7	Khrimian Hairik and Van Provincial Literature	Rubina Peroomian	UCLA
8	Armenian Responses to the Van Famine of 1880-1881	Ara Sarafian	Columbia University
9	Armenian Revolutionary Organizations in the 1895-1896 Defense of Van	Stephan Astourian	UCLA
10	Demography of Van Province, 1848-1914	Sarkis Karayan	Camarillo State Hospital
11	Van at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (illustrated)	Anahid Ter-Minassian	Université de Paris I-Sorbonne

	Sunday, May 18, 1997, 1:00 p.m.– 5:30 p.m.
	Topic:	Presenter:	Institution:
1	Pictorial Memories of Armenian Van	Dickran Kouymjian	California State University, Fresno
2	The Self-Defense of Armenian Van in 1915	Anahid Ter-Minassian	Université de Paris I - Sorbonne
3	Gurgen Mahari and the Flames of Van	Marc Nichanian	Columbia University
4	The Architectural Heritage of Vaspurakan and the Preservation of  Memory Layers	Nairy Hampikian	Cairo, Egypt
5	Summary and Discussion	Richard Hovannisian	UCLA