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The Society for Armenian Studies Newsletter Volume XL, No. 1 (81), Summer 2016 Message from the President On behalf of the SAS Executive Repositioning of Armenians in Ottoman and Turkish Council, I would like to invite Historiography” and is co-sponsored by SAS and the you to attend the SAS Annual Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA). Membership Meeting, to be held from 4:00-6:00PM, It will be held at noon on Saturday, November 19- on Thursday, November 17, https://mesana.org/mymesa/meeting_program_session. 2016, in Salon B (4) of the php?sid=a23f38627fb966dda814efca870abccd Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, in Boston. A panel titled “New Issues, Perspectives and (http://mesana.org/annual- Sources in Armenian Studies” will be held meeting/hotel.html) 1:45PM on Friday, November 18- https:// mesana.org/mymesa/meeting_program_session. The meeting will be held in php?sid=c7bd7606937645b1ec2e9ece08c3d738 conjunction with the Middle East Studies Association Many members are participating on other panels and Annual Meeting. This workshops during the MESA conference. The SAS year we will be serving will present a full listing of participants before the refreshments and light hors d’oeuvres at the meeting. annual meeting. All members are invited to attend and to participate in the meeting. SAS is seeking nominees for the Executive Council. This would be for a three-year term beginning in 2017. Immediately before the annual meeting, SAS has Regular, retired, and student members in good standing organized a conference on “Armenians in America,” are eligible to be nominated. Please send nominations to be held from 1:00-4:00PM on Thursday, November to: [email protected] by September 1. 17, in the same room as the membership meeting. Full details of the participants and schedule will be made The Executive Council always welcomes comments available as we move closer to the date. and suggestions, so please feel free to share your thoughts. The SAS is sponsoring a roundtable and a panel at the MESA conference. The roundtable is titled “Knowledge Production, Exclusion, Inclusion: The With best wishes, Barlow Der Mugrdechian SAS President In this issue: Call for Papers 15th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium 1 Message from the in Armenian Studies University of President California, Los Angeles, Friday, 2 Call for Papers February 24, 2017 3 New Publications We enthusiastically invite graduate students and 4 SAS Dissertation Award recent post-docs (Ph.D., within the last two years) 5 Member Activity in fields associated with Armenian Studies (broadly defined) to present their recent research. Work in 16 News progress is encouraged. Research papers are accepted 19 New Programs on all aspects of Armenian studies, including, but not limited to: literature, history, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, economics, art history, and much more. We encourage comparative themes and Newsletter Credits: interdisciplinary approaches. Panel submissions are also welcome. Hagop Ohanessian Co-Editor This year we are pleased to announce that thanks to a generous donation a $500 prize will be awarded for the Michael Pifer best paper presented on an aspect of the history and Co-Editor culture of the Armenian community of Salmast, Iran. Barlow Der Mugrdechian Contributor Applicants should e-mail presentation abstracts of no more than 250 words and their curriculum vitae by September 15, 2016. Abstracts should provide a Submission Policy: brief description of the work, clearly outlining the theoretical perspectives and methodology to be applied in the paper. All contributions to the SAS newsletter must be submitted according to the guidelines on our sub- Please attach the required documents in the form mission form. Please spellcheck and proofread all of a Word document. Please note that a 20-minute submissions. Due to space restrictions and editorial time limit for presentations will be strictly enforced policies, we do not publish most press releases. Ed- (roughly 8-10 pages double-spaced). Invited itors reserve the right to limit the number of mem- participants will be required to submit a draft version ber activities allotted to each person. In an effort to of their full presentation by December 20, 2016. keep news timely, this newsletter covers Summer 2015 - Spring 2016 only, and therefore we have A reception will be held on the Wednesday evening decided not to include forthcoming publica- prior to the event to welcome the colloquium speakers. tions at this time. Students will have an opportunity to meet with faculty and students on campus, tour Armenian Studies For further information, please email the editors: resources, and visit Armenian Studies classes. The Hagop Ohanessian at colloquium will conclude with a reception. [email protected] or Michael Pifer at Continued on page 19 [email protected]. Society for Armenian Studies Newsletter 2 New Publications Kasbarian, Lucine. Perspectives from Exile, The Thompson Gallery & Bournoutian, George. the Cambridge School of Weston (2015). The 1819 Russian Survey of the Khanate of Sheki. (Maz- Kouymjian, Dickran. da Press, 2016). Jurgis Baltrušaitis and Japanese Edition: A Concise Dickran Kouymjian, History of the Armenian Peo- Jughan Arak‘s geti ple (2016). ap‘in ev nra husha- kot‘oghnere [Julfa on The 1829-1832 Russian the Arax and Its Funer- Surveys of the Khanate of ary Monuments], trans. Nakhichevan (Mazda Press, of a study of 1986 by 2016). Nariné Karamyan, preface by Carlos Costa-Ramos (Yerevan, Dadoyan, Seta. 2015). The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia Maranci, Christina. - History, Mission, Vigilant Powers: Three Treasures, editor and Churches of Early Medieval Armenia (Brepols, 2015). co-author (Antelias Beirut: Catholicosate Publications, Stone, Michael. 2015). Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Armenian Studies, 2015 – The Armenian vol. 3, (Leuven: Peeters, 2016). Condition in Hindsight and Suny, Ronald Grigor. Foresight- A Discourse (Ontario, Canada: Printbridge Inc., 2015). Turkish Edition: Soykırım Haroutyunian, Sona. Meselesi: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun Son Hayoc‘ Döneminde Ermeniler ve c‘ełaspanut‘yan Türkler (Istanbul: Tarih t‘eman italakan Vakfı Yurt Yayinları, grakanut‘yan mej. 2015). [The Theme of the Armenian Genocide “They Can Live in the within Italian Desert But Nowhere Else”: Literature] (Yerevan A History of the Armenian State University Genocide (Princeton: Press: Yerevan 2015). Princeton University Press, 2015). Society for Armenian Studies Newsletter 2 Summer 2016 3 Dr. Karapetian Wins SAS Distinguished Dissertation Award Best Conference Paper Goes To Vahe Sahakyan The Society for Ar- currently serving on menian Studies (SAS) multiple committees in announces that its the Los Angeles Arme- Distinguished Disser- nian community aimed tation Award for 2011- at reforming Armenian 2014 has been given language instruction and to Dr. Shushan Kara- promoting the use of the petian for her disserta- Armenian language. tion “‘How Do I Teach My Kids My Broken The SAS also chose Dr. Armenian?”’: A Study Sona Haroutyunian’s dis- of Eastern Armenian sertation, “An Analysis Heritage Language of Dante’s Tenses in the Speakers in Los Ange- Armenian Translations of les.” The SAS Award the Divina Commedia,” is accompanied by a for honorable mention. $1,000 prize. Dr. Haroutyunian is professor of Armenian The selection com- language and literature at mittee had this to say Ca’ Foscari University of about Dr. Karapetian’s Venice. dissertation: “The committee found the dissertation to be timely and well researched and a welcome addi- Vahe Sahakyan was named as the recipient of the tion to the body of knowledge. In its examination graduate student “Best Conference Paper,” for his of Armenian as a heritage language it addresses an work “From Extra-Territorial Communitarianism to issue of great contemporary relevance through solid Ethno-Territorial Nationalism Emergence of Armenian scholarship, and it stands a valuable contribution to an Revolutionary Parties in the 19th Century.” Sahakyan under-analyzed topic.” is a graduate student in the Department of Near East- ern Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Shushan Karapetian received a PhD in Near Eastern The SAS “Best Conference Paper” is accompanied by Languages and Cultures from UCLA in 2014, where a $500 prize. she has taught Armenian Studies courses over the past six years. This year she began her tenure as the first Postdoctoral Fellow in the UCLA Armenian Studies In its examination of Armenian Program, which entails the expansion of her research as a heritage language it on Armenian heritage speakers and the development “addresses an issue of great and instruction of an entirely new course entitled Lan- contemporary relevance through guage in Diaspora: Armenian as a Heritage Language. solid scholarship, and it stands a Her research interests focus on heritage languages valuable contribution to an under- and speakers, particularly on the case of Armenian analyzed topic. heritage speakers in the Los Angeles community, on which she has presented and lectured widely. She is --Selection Committee ” Society for Armenian Studies Newsletter 4 “The Iran-Turkey-Armenia Borders as Depicted in Various Maps.” Iran and the Caucasus, Leiden, Sum- Member Activity mer-Fall 2015. “The Economic and Professional Contribution of the Boulgourdjian, N. Armenian Inhabitants of Shushi based on the 1822 Genus.” Kachar (Annual Publication of the Scientific “Un peldaño más hacia el reconocimiento definitivo Center in Shushi, Nagorno-Karabakh, Fall,