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DISPLACEMENT and DEVIATION Cover Image: a Soviet-Era Chemical Factory in in THIS ISSUE Yerevan, Now in Ruins | NEWSLETTER FALL 2020 - ISSUE 14 DISPLACEMENT AND DEVIATION Cover Image: A Soviet-era chemical factory in IN THIS ISSUE Yerevan, now in ruins. Photo by Lori Khatchadourian 3 NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR 6 FACULTY NEWS AND UPDATES 10 LEGACY OF LOVE AND PASSION Establishing Edward Hagop Noroian Fund in Armenian Studies 12 MEET THE MANOOGIAN FELLOWS 17 YEAR IN REVIEW Generations and Legacies Pluricentric Armenian in a Diasporic Context Afterlives of Catastrophes International Institute Conference on Migration Community Outreach Multidisciplinary Workshop for Armenian Studies 23 DISPLACEMENT AND DEVIATION Mediating History in the Caucasus and Beyond The Ottoman Armistice, Imagined Borders, and Displaced Populations David Ohannessian and the Armenian Ceramics of Jerusalem Trauma, Memory, and the History of Mental Health in Armenian Studies Past and Present 27 PROFILES AND REFLECTIONS 2019-20 CAS Graduate Students CAS Fellowship Recipients 30 2020-21 EVENT CALENDAR 32 OUR DONORS Let us know what you think at [email protected]. Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/CASumichAA Newsletter Credits Editors: Melanie Tanielian, Naira Tumanyan Contributor: David Merchant Design: Naira Tumanyan 2 3 NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR Dear Friends and Colleagues, On a Good Note am writing with some wonderful and exciting news. Even though last semester was marked with cancelations and disappointments asI we missed much of our rich intellectual engagement and scholarly community due to COVID-19 restrictions, we were able to make significant progress towards our goals of promoting and advancing the study of all things Armenian. First, we are now able to announce that our long record of excellence and the fantastic work by our previous director Dr. Kathryn Babayan, in terms of graduate student education and programming, earned us full university support to transform the Armenian Studies Program into the University of Michigan’s Center for Armenian Studies. This is a tremendous achievement that has been long in the making and Melanie Tanielian highlights the growth of our mission to promote the A Theme Befitting the Times study of the history, language, and culture of Armenia This brings me to what is in store this coming year. The and Armenians. It will be able to offer many more Center for Armenian Studies is pleased to announce opportunities to students and our community in Ann Displacement and Deviation as its theme for the Arbor and Metro Detroit, and expand the available 2020-21 academic year. In the last months, we all, resources for a new generation of scholars in the in one way or another, experienced some form of field. The promotion of the program into the Center displacement in our daily lives; from work offices to for Armenian Studies will serve as a powerful magnet improvised workspaces in our home’s basements, for focusing university-wide academic activity related bedrooms, kitchens, or porches; from classrooms to to Armenian Studies, increase visibility, and further zoom rooms; from dorms in Michigan to temporary signal the serious intellectual commitment of the shelters or parents’ homes in other states or countries. center in advancing new directions in the field in the We moved with speed into isolation with family, future. The center, of course, will continue its existing strangers, or into solitude as shelter-in-place orders program that has attracted a cohort of excellent were issued and routinely prolonged in Michigan international scholars with the intention of expanding and around the globe. The demands for social justice its reach and visibility abroad, especially in Armenia. voiced in light of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and the many other Black Second, we received a sizeable gift from the family of Americans moved many of us from isolation to the Edward Hagop Noroian and Jane Plasman to endow a streets of our cities. Now we look in shock at the named student merit scholarship, awarded on a yearly destruction of Beirut and the violence in response to basis to the brightest and most promising students, as protests against the government’s negligence. Beirut, well as a named-endowed lecture series to support the diaspora home city of many of our friends and bringing renowned scholars of Armenian art, language, families, yet again aching. The most recent large-scale culture, history, and politics to Ann Arbor. We are most military attack on Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijani grateful for the Noroian-Plasman family’s support and forces signaled the re-eruption of violence in this are looking forward to a long and fruitful partnership. three-decade long conflict. We watch in despair, as (Please read more about this wonderful opportunity the media in the United States has largely ignored the on page 10). conflict and the international community is moving 2 3 slowly to condemn the fighting and demand a return languages. The Caucasus herein was a central locale to peace-negotiations. In the meantime, civilians are of intersecting cultures and languages. As Dr. Harsha under fire, young men are mobilized to the battlefields, Ram (University of California, Berkeley) points out, and Armenians are displaced from cities, towns, the 10th-century Arab historian and geographer Al- villages, and homes in a renewed struggle for survival. Mas’udi long ago called the Caucasus “jabal al-alsun,” Nothing but deviations from the normative, normal, the “mountain of tongues,” referencing the densely and routine ways we encounter the world now is our compacted presence of topographical variation everyday reality. To various degrees, Displacement and and cultural-linguistic diversity. A two-part webinar, Deviations has become the new normal of our current titled Scripts, Sounds, and Songs: Mediating History moment. in the Caucasus and Beyond, will deliver us into the medieval scene of traveling poems, songs, and texts. Displacement and Deviation clearly are not foreign The conversation, the organizers Dr. Michael Pifer, to the Armenian community and there might be a Dr. MacFarlane, and Armen Abkarian hope, will lead way for us to relate our current experiences to that us to not only consider multi-lingual archives read in of Armenians’ past and present. There is no single contrapuntally fashion, but also in what ways might, for place where Armenians have lived historically, just as instance, medieval Armenian ballads, heterographic there is no singular understanding of ‘Armenian-ness’ wonder tales, or modern filmmaking mediate different over time. Indeed, both displacement and deviation histories of shared, fraught space? How do the past (from the Latin de “off, away” and via “way”) would and present meet and negotiate the meaning of the therefore seem to be tightly woven into the Armenian other in various forms of cultural labor? experience, no matter how internally diverse. In light of current instabilities, uncertainties, and potential We will be diving more deeply into the discussion openings for change, we are looking forward to of Displacement and Deviation in modern Armenian unraveling what Displacement and Deviations mean film by engaging with filmmakers Gariné Torossian and have meant in an Armenian context. How might we and Tamara Stepanyan. Torossian explores film form, treat Displacement and Deviation as particular lenses hybrid film and video technologies, and themes of for viewing Armenian history and cultural production, belonging, identity, and the body. Displacement and both modern and pre-modern? What might a history deviations are made visible in their imagery and urge of deviation, or of being out-of-place in multiple ways, us to question the very ground we stand on. We mean in the Armenian context? And most importantly, began our filmscreeing sequence with a conversation I would argue, what might happen if we ourselves between Professor Marie Aude Baronian and Gariné deviate from received assumptions about Armenian Torossian based on a viewing of Torossian’s short history and cultural production? films (Visions, Girl from Moush, Drowning in Flames, Pomegranate Tree, Sparklehorse, Babies on the Sun, Our 2020-21 Program Shadowy Encounters, Hypnotize/Mezmerize-System of Our two Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellows, Dr. Alex a Down). The films visualized for us the heterogeneity MacFarlane and Dr. Ari Şekeryan, explore these of Armenianness in vision and sound. The corpus of broad themes in very different temporal and archival Stepanyan’s work is emphasizing movement, may that landscapes. Joining us from the UK, Dr. MacFarlane be the train on which lovers meet or as in the case of studies the medieval Armenian reception (and our screening the seasonal movement of village men eventual rewriting) of the Alexander Romance. The juxtaposed with long periods of waiting, preparations, Alexander Romance is a series of tales about the life of and anticipation. The undulations of seasons is marked Alexander the Great that were enormously popular in by deviation from the norm, periods of adjustment, the pre-modern world. By examining the ways in which and the establishment of a different normal. The Armenian Christians actively changed the romance, screening of Stepanyan’s film will also be followed by inserting their own values and interpretations into the a discussion with the director. We hope you will watch narrative in the course of their opening lecture for the and come prepared with many questions. center, Dr. MacFarlane helped to decenter a broader reception of the history of Alexander’s life in other On the other end of the spectrum, moving us into cultural contexts. They highlight how marvelous tales the modern era, we have a number of lectures and of monsters and places where one could fall off the workshops that continue to probe this year’s theme. edge of the world traveled through time, space, and In the fall, we will welcome Dr. Lori Khatchadourian 4 5 (Cornell University) whose exciting new project is from their ancestral homelands between 1885 and both a visual treat as well as an intellectual one.
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