ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION CHAIR IN MODERN ARMENIAN HISTORY
HISTORIC ARMENIAN CITIES AND PROVINCES CONFERENCE SERIES: NO. 9 - KARS AND ANI
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 7:30 P.M.
A Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Armenian Studies at UCLA and of Professor Richard Hovannisian's Contributions to the Field and the 15th Anniversary of the A.E.F. Chair in Armenian History.
Place: Universal City Hilton Hotel. Tickets AEF Office: 818-242-4154
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 9:30-1:00, Dickson Auditorium, UCLA
Introduction--Kars and Ani
Richard Hovannisian, UCLA
Shirak and Vanand: A Historical Overview
Robert Hewsen, Rowan University of New Jersey
Emergence of the Bagratuni Kingdoms of Kars and Ani
Tim Greenwood, Oxford University
The Church of the Holy Apostles at Kars and the Relief of Judas
James Russell, Harvard University
INTERMISSION
The Medieval Chroniclers of Ani
Robert Thomson, Oxford University
The Architect Trdat: From the Great Church at Ani to the Great Church in Constantinople
Christina Maranci, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Vardan Anetsi and His Poem on the Divine Chariot
Theo Maarten van Lint, Leiden University, Netherlands
LUNCH
AFTERNOON SESSION, 2:00-6:00 P.M.
The Church of the Holy Savior in Ani
Diane Favro, Philip Stinson, Justina Bandol, UCLA
Ani after Ani
Claude Moutafian, Universite de Paris-Nord
Trade, Administration, and Cities around Kars and Ani, 14th-16th Centuries
Tom Sinclair, University of Cyprus
INTERMISSION
Kars in the Russo-Turkish Wars of the 19th Century
Christopher Walker, London
Kars in the Armenian Liberation Movement
Rubina Peroomian, UCLA
Armenians and Molokans: Karakala, 1889-1920
Joyce Keosababian Bivin, Jerusalem
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 10:30-12:30 SESSION IN ARMENIAN
The Kingdom of Vanand (Kars) within the Bagratuni State Structure
"Kars-i Tagavorutiune Bagratuniats Petakan Karoytsum"
Rafayel Matevossyan, Institute of History, Erevan
The Architectural Heritage of Ani
"Ani-i Jartarapetutian Zharangutiune"
Sarkis Balmanoukian, Los Angeles
The Kars Oblast, 1878-1914
"Kars-i Marze, 1878-1914"
Ashot Melkonian, Institute of History, Erevan
Archeological Expeditions to Ani since 1892
"Ani-i Jartarapetakan Arshavanknere 1892-en i Ver"
Raymond Kevorkian, Nubarian Library and Sorbonne, Paris
END OF ARMENIAN SESSION
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1:30-5:30 P.M.
G.I. Gurdjieff and the Armenian Quest in Kars and Ani
David S. Calonne, Wayne State University
Kars: War, Revolution, Republic, Collapse. 1914-1921
Richard Hovannisian, UCLA
Kars-Ardahan and Soviet Irredentism, 1945-1946
Robert Krikorian, Harvard University
INTERMISSION
Charents: Mourning the Loss of Kars
Vartan Matiossian, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, and Hovnanian School, New Jersey
Ani and Kars in Post-Charents Soviet Armenian Poetry
Anahid Keshishan, UCLA
The Armenian Dialect of Kars
Bert Vaux, Harvard University
Photographic Exhibit by Richard and Anne Elizabeth Elbrecht
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