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Sponsored By:
The Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History, Co-sponsored by the UCLA G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, Center for Russian and European Studies, International Institute

Saturday, November 4, 2002
9:30 A.M.-1:00 P.M.
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Armenian Smyrna

Richard Hovannisian  UCLA
2 The Aegean Armenian Communities, 14th-18th Centuries Armenians on the Black Sea--The Pontic Shore Albert Kharatyan Institute of History, Erevan
3 The City of Smyrna Robert H. Hewsen Rowan State University
4 Swedish-Armenian Relations and Smyrna Artsvi Bakhchinyan Armenian Center for National and International Studies, Erevan
5 Armenian Language Publications of the American Missionary Press at Smyrna Barbara Merguerian California State University, Fresno
6 The Armenian Press of Smyrna and the Role of Arshaloys Araratian Osheen Keshishian Glendale Community College and The Armenian Observer
7 The Visual Culture of Smyrna Armenians Christina Maranci University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Saturday, November 4, 2002 
2:00 - 5:30 P.M.
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1 Armenian Literature and Enlightenment in Smyrna, 1850-1900 Sona Seferian Erevan State University    
2 The Hripsime Educational Association of Smyrna Victoria Rowe University of Toronto
3 Armenians in Smyrna-Interethnic Relations in the 19th and Early 20th Century Hevré Georgelin École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris 
4 Demise of Armenian Smyrna: An Oral History Perspective Rubina Peroomian UCLA
5 From Asia Minor to the Amazon and Rio de la Plata: Smyrna Armenians in South America Vartan Matiossian Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, and Hovnanian School, New Jersey
6 The Smyrna Armenian Dialect Bert Vaux Harvard University
  Discussion    

Sunday, November 5, 2002
1:30 - 6:00 P.M.
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1

The Smyrna Armenian Community During the Tanzimat Period

Albert Kharatyan Institute of History, Erevan
2 Hrachia Ajarian on the History of the Smyrna-Armenian Community Tigran Sarukhanyan Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide, Erevan
3 Smyrna in the Arabic Sources Nora Arissian Damascus, Syria
  Discussion    

Sunday, November 5, 2002
3:45 - 6:00 P.M.
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80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SMYRNA TRAGEDY

   
1 The Greco-Turkish Conflict in Asia Minor Speros Vryonis, Jr. UCLA and New York University
3 The Burning of Smyrna, 1922 Marjorie Housepian Dobkin Barnard College
4 Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, and the Destruction of Smyrna David S. Calonne Eastern Michigan University
5 Case Studies of Survival: Two Armenian Physicians in Smyrna Jack Der-Sarkissian Southern California Permanente Medical Group
  Discussion    
  Photographic Exhibit Richard and Anne Elizabeth Elbrecht Davis, California
 

Please Note: Because of the renovation of Dickson Auditorium, the site for this conference has been moved to Young Hall CS 50 in the Court of Sciences in the southeast campus area of UCLA. Parking will be available in Structure No. 2. Entrance  from Hilgard Avenue at Wyton Drive. A map of the UCLA campus may be found on the UCLA web site at www.ucla.edu/map. (click on “Southeast”). The UCLA Armenian Studies web site may be accessed at www.uclaarmenian.org.

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