The seventh in a series of international conferences on Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces was held at UCLA on Friday and Saturday, October 20-21, 2000. Armenian Cilicia from antiquity to the twentieth century was featured, with the participation of scholars from Armenia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States. The conference was under the honorary presidency of His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, as a part of the seventeen-hundredth anniversary of the proclamation of Christianity in Armenia. It was organized by Professor Richard Hovannisian, Holder of the AEF Chair in Modern Armenian History, with the co-sponsorship of the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America/Richard and Tina Carolan Overseas Programs, International Studies and, Division of Social Sciences and the Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies.  

Sponsored By:
The Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History, University of California, Los Angeles.

	Friday, October 20, 9:30 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.
	Topic:	Presenter:	Institution:
1	Opening	Richard Hovannisian	UCLA
2	Welcome	Albert Carnesale	Chancellor of UCLA
3	The Heritage of Armenian Cilicia	His Holiness Aram I	Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia
4	The Historical Geography of Cilicia	Robert H. Hewsen	Rowan University of New Jersey
5	The Historical Incentives of Political Revival in Cilicia	Azat Bozoyan	Mashtots Matenadaran, Yerevan
6	The Origins of the Armenian Principalities of Cilicia, 1073-1129	Gérard Dédéyan	Université de Montpellier III, France
7	The Brilliant Diplomacy of Cilician Armenia	Claude Mutafian	Université de Paris-Nord, France
8	Papacy, Catholicosate, and the Kingdom of Cilicia	Peter Halfter	Marbach/Neckar, Germany
9	To Byzantium with Love: St. Nerses the Gracious on Union of the Greek and Armenian Churches	Abraham Terian	St. Nersess Seminary,  New York
10	Grigor Anavarzetsi and Stepanos Orbelian in Dialogue (1289-1307)	Peter Cowe	UCLA
11	Frik: The Bridge of Poetry	James R. Russell	Harvard University
12	Cilicia and the Catholicosate from the Fall of the Armenian Kingdom to 1915	Dickran Kouymjian	California State University, Fresno
13	Cilicia: The View form the Women’s Organizations of Constantinople	Victoria Rowe	University of Toronto
14	The Tears of Laughter of Cilician Armenia	Rubina Peroomian	UCLA
15	David Kherdian’s Quest for Adana	David Stephen Calonne	Wayne State University
16	The Cilician Armenian Dialects	Bert Vaux	Harvard University

	Saturday, October 21, 2000, 9:30 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.
	Topic:	Presenter:	Institution:
1	The Art of Cilician Armenia: Cultural Identity and Exchange	Christina Maranci	University of Michigan,   Ann Arbor
2	Manuscripts and Libraries: Scriptorial Activity in Cilicia	Bernard Coulie	Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
3	The Medical Heritage of Cilician Armenia	Stella Vardanian	Mashtots Matenadaran, Yerevan
4	The Genius of Toros Roslin	Levon Chookaszian	Yerevan State University
5	Castles, Towns, and Daily Life in Armenian Cilicia	Scott Redford	Georgetown University
6	Armenian Planning and Architectural Reminiscences from Aintab	David Kertmenjian	Mashtots Matenadaran, Yerevan
7	Cilicia, 1909	Raymond Kévorkian	Université Paris III, Sorbonne nouvelle and Bibliotèque Nubarian
8	The Cilician Armenians during World War I	Hilmar Kaiser	European University Institute, Florence
9	Repatriation of Armenian Refugees to Cilicia, 1918-1919	Vahram Shemmassian	Merdinian School,  Sherman Oaks
10	The Cilician Armenians and French Policy, 1919-1921	Vahé Tachjian	École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
11	Discussant	Garabet Moumdjian	Mesrobian School, Pico Rivera
12	Relocation and Institutionalization of the Cilician Catholicosate in Antelias, Lebanon	Simon Payaslian	UCLA
13	A Retrospective	Richard Hovannisian	UCLA
14	An Appreciation	His Holiness Aram I	Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia
	Photographic Exhibit	Richard and Anne Elizabeth Elbrecht	Davis, California