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Saturday, May 19, 2001, 9:30 A.M.- 6:00 P.M.
Sunday, May 20, 2001, 10:00 A.M.- 6:00 P.M.
 

The eighth in a series of international conferences on Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces was hosted by UCLA on Saturday and Sunday, May 19-20, 2001. Armenian Constantinople from antiquity to the twentieth century was featured, with the participation of scholars from Argentina, Armenia, Canada, France, Great Britain, Turkey, and the United States. The conference was organized by Professor Richard Hovannisian, Holder of the Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History.

Sponsored By:
The Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History, UCLA.

Saturday, May 19, 2001
9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
. Topic: Presenter: Institution:
1

Armenian Constantinople

Richard Hovannisian UCLA
2 Constantinople and Early Armenian Literature Robert W. Thomson Oxford University
3 Armenian Officers in Constantinople from the 7th through 9th Century: The Imperial Temptation Mikael Nichanian Université de Paris-IV (Sorbonne)
4 Ninth Century Armenian Elites in Constantinople; Emperor Basil and Patriarch Photius Manea E. Shirinian Matenadaran, Yerevan
5 Patterns of Contact and Communication: Constantinople and Armenia, 860-976 Tim Greenwood Oxford University
6 Arakel Baghishetsi's 'Elegy on the Capital City of Stamboul' Leonardo Alishan Salt Lake City
7 The Evolution and the Role of the Armenian Patriarchate Kevork Bardakjian University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
8 Armenian Manuscript Painting in Constantinople Christina Maranci University of Chicago        
9 Revelations of a Colophon in a 1623 Bible Ina B. MacCabe Tufts University
10 Architects, Craftsmen, Weavers: The Armenians and Ottoman Art Lucy Der Manuelian Tufts University
11 Cyrus Hamlin and American Missionary Education in Constantinople Barbara Merguerian Armenian International Women's Association
12 The 19th Century Armenian Community of Constantinople Ovannes Kilicdaği Bosporus University, Istanbul
13 Armenian Literary Views of 19th Century Constantinople Victoria Rowe University of Toronto
14 The Armenian Dialect of Bolis Bert Vaux Harvard University

Sunday, May 20, 2001
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
. Topic: Presenter: Institution:
1

Armenian Artists in 19th-20th Century Constantinople

Levon Chookaszian Yerevan State University
2 The Balian Family and the  Architecture of Constantinople Sarkis Balmanoukian Los Angeles
3 The Pagan Movement and Daniel Varuzhan Souren Danielian Spiurk Scientific Educational Center, Yerevan
4 Constantinople and the Catastrophe: The Voice of Gostan Zarian Vartan Matiossian Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires
5 The Armenian Community of Bolis and Its Oral Tradition Verjine Svazlian Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Yerevan
6

The Musical World of Armenians in Constantinople

Lucina Agbabian-Hubbard University of Southern California
7 Armenian Intelligentsia of Constantinople, 1908-1915 Robert Krikorian Harvard University
8 The Satirical Face of the Pre-Genocide Press, 1908-1915 Gia Aivazian UCLA
9 The A.R.F. in Constantinople in the Constitutional Period Dikran Kaligian Boston College
10 La Renaissance and the Aftermath of World War I Hervé Georgelin École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
11 Redefining Literary Identity in Post-War Istanbul (Zahrad & Khrakhuni) Peter Cowe  UCLA
12 From Constantinople to Yerevan: The Odyssey of Vahram Papazian Robert H. Hewsen Rowan University of New Jersey
13 The French Connection: Peter Sourian and Constantinople David Calonne Wayne State University
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