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Saturday, November 10, 2001 9:30 A.M.-6:00 P.M.
Sunday, November 11, 2001 10:00 A.M.-5:30 P.M.
The ninth in a series of international
conferences on historic Armenian cities and provinces hosted by UCLA took place on
Saturday and Sunday, November 10-11, 2001. The great cities of Kars and Ani were
featured, with the participation of scholars
from Argentina, Armenia, Cyprus, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United
States. The Saturday Sessions were devoted to the medieval capital cities of Kars
and Ani from their founding to the nineteenth century. The Sunday sessions
concentrated on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with the Sunday morning
session only being conducted in the Armenian language.
Sponsored By:
The Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History,
Co-sponsored by the International Studies and Overseas Program, Division of
Social Sciences, College of Letters and Science, Center for Russian and European
Studies, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
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Saturday,
November 10, 2001
9:30 A.M.-1:00 P.M.
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Presentation: |
Presenter: |
Establishment: |
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Introduction:
Armenian Kars and Ani
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Richard
Hovannisian |
UCLA |
| 2 |
Shirak and Vanand: A
Historical Overview |
Robert H. Hewsen |
California State
University, Fresno |
| 3 |
Emergence of the
Bagratuni Kingdom of Kars and Ani |
Tim Greenwood |
Oxford
University |
| 4 |
The Church of the Holy
Apostles at Kars and the Relief of Judas |
James R. Russell |
Harvard University |
| 5 |
The Medieval
Chroniclers of Ani |
Robert W. Thomson |
Oxford University
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| 6 |
The Architect Trdat:
From the Great Church at Ani to the Great Church in Constantinople |
Christina Maranci |
University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
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Vardan Anetsi and His
Poem on the Divine Chariot |
Theo Maarten van Lint |
Leiden University |
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Saturday,
November 10, 2001 2:00-6:00 P.M.
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Presentation: |
Presenter: |
Establishment: |
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The
Church of the Holy Savior in Ani
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Diane Favro, Philip
Stinson, Justina Bandol |
UCLA
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Ani after Ani |
Claude Moutafian |
Université de Paris-Nord |
| 3 |
Trade, Administration,
and Cities around Kars and Ani, 14th-16th Centuries |
Thomas A. Sinclair |
University of Cyprus |
| 4 |
Kars in the
Russo-Turkish Wars of the 19th Century |
Christopher J. Walker |
London |
| 5 |
Kars in the Armenian
Liberation Movement |
Rubina Peroomian |
UCLA |
| 6 |
Armenians and Molokans:
Karakala, 1889-1920 |
Joyce Keosababian
Bivin |
Jerusalem |
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Sunday,
November 11, 2001
10:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M.
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Presentation: |
Presenter: |
Establishment: |
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The
Kingdom of Vanand (Kars) within the Bagratuni State Structure
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Rafayel
Matevossyan |
Institute
of History, Yerevan |
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The
Architectural Heritage of Ani |
Sarkis
Balmanoukian |
Los
Angeles |
| 3 |
The Kars
Oblast, 1874-1914 |
Ashot
Melkonian |
Institute
of History, Yerevan |
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Architectural
Expeditions to Ani since 1892 |
Raymond H.
Kevorkian |
Centre
d'Histoire Arménienne Contemporaine, Université Paris III, Sorbonne nouvelle |
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Sunday,
November 11, 2001
1:30-5:30 P.M.
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Presentation: |
Presenter: |
Establishment: |
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G.
I. Gurdjieff and the Armenian Quest in Kars and Ani
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David S. Calonne |
Wayne State University |
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Kars 1914-1921 |
Richard Hovannisian |
UCLA |
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Kars, Ardahan and
Soviet Irredentism, 1945-1946 |
Robert Krikorian |
Harvard University |
| 4 |
Charents: Mourning the
Loss of Kars |
Vartan Matiossian |
Universidad del
Salvador, Buenos Aires, and Hovnanian School, New Jersey |
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Ani and Kars in Post-Charents
Soviet Armenian Poetry |
Anahid Keshishian |
UCLA |
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The Armenian Dialect
of Kars |
Bert Vaux |
Harvard University |
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Photographic Exhibit |
Richard and Anne
Elizabeth Elbrecht |
Davis, California |
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