Society for Armenian Studies Newsletter Volume XXXVII, No. 1 (78), Summer 2013

19 September 2012 2013 Membership eeting Janigian, Aris. Book reading and presentation M “This Angelic Land,” Armenian Studies Program at The Society for Armenian Studies Annual Member- California State University, Fresno. ship meeting will take place in New Orleans, on 25 September 2012 Thursday, October 10, 2013, in conjunction with the Middle East Studies Association Annual Confer- Shemmassian, Vahram. “Musa Dagh in the Struggle ence. The Membership Meeting will take place from against the Denial of the Armenian Genocide,” United 6:30-8:30PM in the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, 500 Armenian Congregational Church (UACC), Los Canal Street, New Orleans. All members are invited to Angeles, organized by the UACC Men’s Fellowship. attend and participate in the membership meeting. 28 September 2012 Boulgourdjian-Toufeksian, Nélida presented “From Upcoming or Ottoman Empire to Argentina. Immigrants Armenian Recent Events or Refugees?” in the workshop Political Exiles in the twentieth century Agendas, Conceptual problems and SEPTEMBER 2012 Prospects, La Plata, National University of La Plata, 2 September 2012 Faculty of Humanities and Education. Shemmassian, Vahram. “Lessons Drawn from the Musa Dagh Resistance,” organized by Mousa Ler OCTOBER 2012 Association of Fresno on the occasion of the 97th anniversary of the Musa Dagh resistance. Fresno, CA. Merian, Sylvie. “The Society of Foliophiles, Otto Ege, and the Dispersal of Armenian Manuscript 7 – 8 September 2012 Leaves.” Manuscripta: Thirty-Ninth Annual Saint Shemmassian, Vahram. “The Decision and Process Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, Vatican Film of the Musa Dagh Resistance to the Armenian Library, St. Louis University (St. Louis, MO). Genocide,” at the International Workshop on Resisting 5 October 2012 the Path to Genocide: Groups and Networks, organized by 2020 Genocide Resistance Research Hovannisian, Richard. “Armenian Smyrna/Izmir,” Cluster, University of Southern California (USC), Los Armenian Studies Program at California State Angeles. University, Fresno. 12 September 2012 14 October 2012 Ignatius, Paul. Book reading and presentation, “Now Bardakjian, Kevork B. “Moulding the mind: the I Know in Part: An Armenian-American Reflects on imprint of the Armenian script and printing on His Life and Times,” Armenian Studies Program at Armenian letters and identity.” Armenian Studies California State University, Fresno. Program at California State University, Fresno. 21 October 2012 9 – 11 November 2012: international conference on Port Cities and Printers: Five Centuries of Global Shemmassian, Vahram. “A Collective Biography of Armenian Print; University of California, Los Musa Dagh Armenians via Vintage Photos,” in Musa Angeles. Dagh/Ainjar Armenian Ethnic Program organized by Hamazkayin Siamanto Chapter. Santa Ana, CA. - Merian, S. “The Transition from Manuscript to Print (and vice versa): Physical Evidence in 27 October 2012: conference dedicated to the 125th Armenian Manuscripts and Printed Books.” Anniversary of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party at Woodbury University, organized and sponsored - Shemmassian, Vahram chaired a panel on by the Armenian Research Center, U of M Dearborn; “The State of the Art Today II: Armenian Book Woodbury University; History Dept., UCLA; and Collections at UCLA and Beyond.” the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research. 14 November 2012 - Bardakjian, Kevork B. “Ideology and Der Mugrdechian, Barlow. “Historic Armenia: literature: the Mother Party and some of her Memories and Images,” Armenian Studies Program at literary children.” California State University, Fresno. - Dostourian, Ara. “The Labor and Political 17 – 20 November 2012: MESA conference in Denver, Work of the Social Democrat Hunchakian CO. Party of the Eastern USA in the Context of - Bardakjian, Kevork B. chaired a panel and the Worldwide Hunchakian Movement (1890- served as discussant for a panel at MESA 2000).” and presided over the general meeting of the - Matiossian, Vartan. “The Hunchakian Party Society for Armenian Studies and its Executive in the Armenian Communities of South Council, as president of the SAS. America: An Outline of Its Early History.” - Melkonian, Arda. “Types of Intervention - Shemmassian, Vahram. “Absolute Monarchy: during the Armenian Genocide.” The Hnchakian Revolutionary Episode in - Melkonian, Doris K. “Genocide Narratives Musa Dagh during the 1890s.” that Challenge Female Gender Norms.” - Shemmassian, Vahram. “Exodus of NOVEMBER 2012 Musa Dagh Armenians from the Sanjak of Alexandretta to Anjar, Lebanon in 1939” in Bardakjian, Kevork B. presented a paper, “The a panel organized by the SAS, History and rise of ‘new,’ and Modern Western Armenian literary Community: The Armenians of Syria and standards: some observations,” at the IX International Lebanon. Conference on Armenian Linguistics, organized by the Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of - Vacca, Alison. “Towards an Islamic Armīniya: Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia Qur’ānic Exegesis and the Sectarian Milieu” as part of a panel sponsored by the SAS, Armenia Ohanian, Daniel.“The Armenian Genocide, its Denial in Dialogue with the Near East, 8 – 15th and Recent Changes in Turkey,” Markville Secondary centuries. School, Markham, Canada. 21 November 2012 1 November 2012 Boulgourdjian-Toufeksian, Nélida. “Armenian Ahnert, Margaret Ajemian. Book reading and Genocide: State violence and implementation of presentation, “The Knock at the Door.” Armenian the deportation as a political tool of extermination” Studies Program at California State University, at Annual IV Colloquium of Research Institute of Fresno. Society for Armenian Studies Newsletter Page 2 Cultural Diversity and Change Process (IIDyPCa), 28 January 2013 CONICET and Comahue University: Genocidal Practices and State Violence Transdisciplinary Marchese, Ronald. “Treasures of Faith: Perspective, in San Carlos de Bariloche. Sacred Objects from the Armenian Churches of Constantinople,” Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Fresno. DECEMBER 2012 12 December 2012 FEBRUARY 2013 Dadoyan, Seta. “Things Armenian and the Crisis of Bertram, C. “Images of Place: The Legacy of the Armenian Studies: The Armenian Studies Centers in Ottoman Past in Modern Turkey” in Bridges and Europe and the United States,” Organized by Aztag Fissures: The Politics of Belonging in Turkey, a and Hamazkayin Lebanon. symposium sponsored by the Institute of Turkish Studies (Georgetown). Ohanian, Daniel. “An Investigation into the JANUARY 2013 Origins of the Armenian Boys’ Farm Home in Georgetown, Ontario,” New Frontiers 3 January 2013 in Graduate History Conference. York Vacca, Alison. “Armīniya in cAbbāsid University, Canada. Geographies: The Conceptual Boundaries of 2 February 2013 Islam and their Sasanian Antecedents” at the annual conference of the American Historical Harutyuyan, Hasmik. “Armenian Song Association. New Orleans, LA. and Dance Workshop,” Armenian Studies Program at California State University, 13 January 2013 Fresno. Peroomian, Rubina. “A presentation of 8 February 2013 The Armenian Genocide in Literature, Perceptions of Those who Lived through the Symposium: “Armenian Jerusalem: Past and Years of Calamity,” Ararat-Eskijian Museum, Present,” Dr. Tamar Boyadjian (UCLA), Mission Hills CA. Sponsored by National Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian (Fresno Association of Armenian Studies and State), Dr. Sergio La Porta (Fresno State), Research and Ararat-Eskijian Museum. Dr. Bedross Der Matossian (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln), Armenian Studies 17 January 2013 Program at California State University, Peroomian, Rubina. “A presentation of The Fresno. Armenian Genocide in Literature, Perceptions of 13 February 2013 Those who Lived through the Years of Calamity,” School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine Manukyan, Suren. “Perpetrators, Bystanders and CA. Rescuers vs. Victims: Survivors and Betrayers During the Genocide,” Armenian Studies Program at 22 – 28 January 2013 California State University, Fresno. Zekiyan, Boghos Levon participated in the Tenth 25 February 2013 Meeting of the International Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church Haroutyunian, Sona. “The Theme of the Armenian and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, Roma. Genocide in Literature, Translation, and Cinema, Part I,” Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Fresno.

Summer 2013 Page 3 Haroutyunian, Sona. “Armenians in Italy,” Charlie Karabagh Movement” Armenian Studies Program at Keyan Armenian Community School, Fresno. California State University, Fresno. 22 – 23 March 2013 MARCH 2013 Peroomian, Rubina. “The Armenian Genocide Education in All Grade Levels, A Neglected Field in Ohanian, Daniel. “How Will We Remember the the National Struggle for Justice” (in Armenian) at the Armenian Genocide when the Last Survivor is Gone?” International Conference on The Armenian Genocide: Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Challenges on the Eve of the Centenary, organized by Centre. Toronto, Canada. The State Commission on Coordination of the Events Dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian 3 March 2013 Genocide. Yerevan, Armenia. Haroutyunian, Sona. “Armenian Venice,” AGBU, Fresno. APRIL 2013 5 March 2013 2 April 2013 Dadoyan, Seta. “Armenian Realpolitik in the Islamic World-Diverging Paradigms and the Case of Cilicia,” Kasbarian, Lucine. “’In Conversation’ Series: The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Lucine Kasbarian and Wilda Williams on International Children’s Book Day,” Armenian Library & Museum 9 March 2013 of America (ALMA). Watertown, MA. Peroomian, Rubina gave a public lecture in 4 April 2013 Armenian on the Armenian Genocide in literature, organized by Armenische Gemeinde zu Berlin. Berlin, Aftandilian, Greg. “Trans-generational Trauma: Germany. The Impact of the Armenian Genocide on the Second Generation,” Armenian Studies Program at California 10 March 2013 State University, Fresno. Peroomian, Rubina gave a public lecture in 6 April 2013 Armenian on the Armenian Genocide in literature, organized by Hay Dun, Armenian community in Peroomian, Rubina. “Armenian Resistance to Berlin. Berlin, Germany. Genocide: An Attempt to Assess Circumstances and Outcomes,” paper presented at the California State 10 – 12 March 2013 University Northridge Conference on Resistances to Peroomian, Rubina. “Fratz Werfel and his Reception the Armenian Genocide, organized by the Armenian by the Armenians in the Diaspora and in Soviet Studies Program. Armenia,” presented at the Franz Werfel Conference, 8 April 2013 organized by the Podstan Lepsius House and Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish studies at Haroutyunian, Sona. “Armenian Genocide in Podstam University, Podstam, Germany. Literature, Translation and Cinema,” USC Colloquium in Armenian Studies, Los Angeles. 14 March 2013 10 April 2013 Haroutyunian, Sona. “Armenian Genocide in Translation, Part II” California State University Haroutyunian, Sona. “The Theme of the Armenian Fresno, Armenian Studies Program, Fresno. Genocide in Literature, Translation, and Cinema, Part III,” Armenian Studies Program at California State 22 March 2013 University, Fresno. Avetisyan, Robert. “25th Anniversary of the Society for Armenian Studies Newsletter Page 4 13 April 2013 AUGUST 2013 Haroutyunian, Sona. “Private correspondence of the Dadoyan, Seta. “The Armenian Mahmet/Muḥammad- Italian-Armenian poetess Vittoria Aganoor with the Legends of a Conqueror and Villain.” Workshop on Mekhitarist monks,” Women’s League of the CKACS, Armenian Folklore and Mythology, sponsored by Fresno. AIEA, SAS, and the Harvard Program in Armenian Studies. 14 April 2013 Bohjalian, Chris. Book reading and presentation, “The Sandcastle Girls,” Armenian Studies Program at SAS Sponsored California State University, Fresno. MESA Panels, 2013 16 April 2013 -- “A Re-Evaluation: Armenian Art and Architecture in 18th and 19th Century Constantinople” La Porta, Sergio. “Networks of Knowledge: Communication and Identity in 12th-14th century Chair: Barlow Der Mugrdechian Armenia,” Armenian Studies Program at California Discussant: Barlow Der Mugrdechian State University, Fresno. 18 April 2013 Presenters: Davidian, Vazken. “Simon Hagopian’s Hamals on Haroutyunian, Sona. “On Sequence of Tense and the the Bridge at Karakoy: The Convergence of Ottoman Anchoring Conditions: Armenian Aorist,” California Armenian Realism and the Visual Arts in Late 19th State University Fresno, Department of Linguistics, Century Constantinople.” Fresno. Murachanian, Jean. “Eighteenth-century Ottoman Portraits by Armenian Court Artist, Rafayel Manas.” MAY 2013 Wharton, Alyson. “Armenian Architects and the Ohanian, Daniel. “A Transnational Perspective on Making of an “Ottoman Renaissance” in Nineteenth British Child Emigrationist Annie Macpherson (1825– 1904),” Huron University College, Canada, May and Early-Twentieth-Century Constantinople.” 2013, The House that Isaac Built: The Architecture of Cultures and Identities in Canada Conference. Marchese, Ron. “Treasures of Faith: Sacred Objects from the Armenian Churches of Constantinople and 23 May 2013 What They Tell Us About Armenian Society and Cul- ture.” Ghazarians, Ara. Book launching of Platon P. Zubov, The Astrologer of Karabagh or the Establishment of the Fortress of Shushi: A Transcaucasian Historical -- “Recapturing Armenian Ottomanism through Novel in Abril Bookstore, Glendale, California. a Man of Tanzimat: The Ottoman Life of Bishop Mkrtich Khrimian”

JUNE 2013 Organizers: Dzovinar Derderian and Richard Anta- ramian Ohanian, Daniel. “Georgetown, Ontario: A Nexus Discussant: Janet Klein of Interests and A Home for Armenian Genocide Orphans in Canada,” at the 10th Biennial Conference Antaramian, Richard. “Priests as Proxies: Battles of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. over Bridging and Gridding in Van and Mush, 1857- University of Siena, Italy. 1869”

Summer 2013 Page 5 Libaridian, Gerard. “Mkrtich Khrimian: Revolution- Haroutyunian, Sona (University of Venice ary Traditionalist or Conservative Revolutionary?” Ca’Foscari, Italy) was the Kazan Visiting Professor in Armenian Studies at California State University Fresno in the Spring semester of 2013 and visiting Derderian, Dzovinar. “Reading Ottoman Reforms faculty at the Nida School of Translation Studies, New through Mkrtich Khrimian: An Ottomanist Reformer York-Misano Adriatico, in May 2012. She was the and an Armenian Patriot.” coordinator of the project “Mapping the Translation Flow from Armenian into Italian” within the frame- Ozcan, Can. “Multiple Modalities of Collective work of UNESCO Book platform project from June to Memories: Remembrance of Arapgir in Armenian and September 2012. She was also the Cultural Advisor to Turkish Oral Narratives.” the Ambassador of Armenia in Italy (2010 – 2012) and the Italian Website Coordinator and Translator of the -- “Challenging Entrenched Categories: Re-thinking Armenian Embassy in Italy (2010 – 2012). Approaches to Armenian Literature” Kasbarian, Lucine (independent journalist) was Organizer and Chair: Tamar M. Boyadjian awarded the “Nautilus Silver Award” in Children’s Picture Book category for The Greedy Sparrow: An Participants: Kevork B. Bardakjian; Myrna Douzji- Armenian Tale in 2013. an, Lilit Keshishyan, Talar Chahinian, Sergio La Matiossian, Vartan (Armenian National Education Porta Committee) was a jury member of the Minas and Ko- har Tölölyan Prize in Contemporary Armenian Litera- -- “New Strategies and Methodologies for Teaching ture, Hamazkayin Armenian and Cultural Educational of Modern Armenian Language, Part 2” Society, 2012-2013.

Chair: Barlow Der Mugrdechian Peroomian, Rubina (Research Associate, UCLA, Discussant: Kevork Bardakjian Near Eastern languages and Cultures) received the Organizer: Ani Kasparian ANCA-WR (Armenian National Committee of America – Western Region) “Life Time Achievement Presenters: Shushan Karapetian, Santoukht Mikae- Award” during the organization’s annual banquet, lian, Ani Kasparian, and Anahid Keshishian October 28, Beverly Hills, CA. She also received the Ararat-Eskijian Museum Award “In appreciation for… tireless efforts for the Armenian cause” on January 13, Member 2013. Accomplishments Stone, Michael (Emeritus prof. of Armenian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) created a web site: Bertram, Carel (Associate Professor of Middle East apocryphalstone.com, which will contain as many and Islamic Studies, San Francisco State University) published works as possible. was a Resident Fellow at the Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin in 2013-2014. Takooshian, Harold (Fordham University) was a bi- The HIS Fellowship year theme was Trauma and So- ographee, Marquis Who’s Who in Medicine & Health- cial Transformation. care and U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Russia, Higher School of Economics (Fall 2013). Dadoyan, Seta (independent scholar) was nominated for the Cundill Prize in History at McGill University Zekiyan, Boghos Levon (Professor of Armenian for The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World- Theology and Liturgy: Pontifical Institute of Oriental Paradigms of Interaction – Volume One. The Arab Studies, Rome, Emeritus of Chair of Armenian Stud- Period in Armenia- Seventh to Eleventh Centuries ies: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) is a patron mem- (2011). ber of AIEA and a member of the Scientific Council of the Fondazione Michele Federico Siacca. Society for Armenian Studies Newsletter Page 6 eneral Ghazarians, Ara. “Alan Hovhannes: A World Music G Phenomenon,” article for the liner booklet of the CD Announcement ALAN HOVHANESS (1911-2000), The Historic Dr. Herand Markarian and editors Dr. Raffi Setian, Iris Moscow Recordings of the Cristofori Foundation by Papazian, and Tom Vartabedian have put out a call for Crystal Records, 2012. submissions of Armenian Genocide survivor testi- ---. Diana A. Apcar: Writer, Humanitarian and Diplo- monies and/or remembrances by descendants, to be mat. [Brochure]. published in several volumes. Those wishing to submit an account of their family’s experience in the Geno- Haroutyunian, Sona. “Armenia: culla della cultura,” cide may send manuscripts to Dr. Herand Markarian, Virtuose VII (2011). Libra-6 Productions, Inc., 160 Waters Edge, Congers, NY 10920, or e-mail [email protected] ---. Artuytneri agarake [Skylark Farm], A. Arslan La and [email protected]. For further details, masseria delle allodole, translation from Italian into consult: Armenian and notes, introduction by B. L. Zekiyan, 2nd ed. Zangak-Sahak Partev: Yerevan, 2012. http://www.armenianweekly.com/2013/04/04/herand- markarians-newest-project-a-gem/ ---. “The Homer of Modem Times: the Reception and Translation of Dante in the Armenian World,” in M. Ciavolella, G. Rizzo (eds.), Like doves summoned by ecent desire: Dante’s New Life in 20th Century Literature R and Cinema. New York: Agincourt Press, 2012. Publications ---. “Mekhitarist Translations,” in L. B. Zekiyan, G. Ayvazian, Alina, Garabed Belian, S. Peter Cowe, Uluhogian, and V. Karapetian (eds.), Armenia: Im- Amy Landau, Theo van Lint, Sylvie Merian, prints of a Civilization, Catalogue of the Exhibition Levon Saryan, and Vahram Tatikian. A Legacy on the Occasion of the Fifth Centenary of Armenian of Armenian Treasures: Testimony to a People; The Printing. Venice: Skira, 2011. Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum, with Selection of approximately two hundred treasures from the ---. “Remarks on Temporal Anchoring: The case of the Museum’s collection. Southfield, MI: The Alex and Armenian aorist,” Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. Marie Manoogian Foundation and Indiana University 21. Venice: University of Venice, 2011. Press, 2013. ---. Zmiurniayi djanaparhe [The Road to Smyrna], A. Boulgourdjian-Toufeksian, Nélida and Juan Carlos Arslan La strada di Smirne, translation from Italian Toufeksian. Inmigración armenia en la Argentina. into Armenian, introduction and notes. Zangak – Sa- Perfiles de una historia centenaria a partir de las hak Partev: Yerevan, 2012. Listas de Pasajeros (1889-1979). Buenos Aires: fundación Memoria del Genocidio Armenio, 2013. Kasbarian, Lucine. “Cathedral on the Verge of Col- lapse: The Campaign to Save Mren: An Interview with Dadoyan, Seta. The Armenians in the Medieval Dr. Christina Maranci;” Armenian Mirror-Spectator Islamic World- Paradigms of Interaction. Volume II. 13 (2013). Armenian Realpolitik in the Islamic World-Diverging Paradigms and the Case of Cilicia -Tenth to Four- ---. “Chookaszian Revives Artist Fetvadjian;” Arme- teenth Centuries. New Brunswick (U.S.A.) & London nian Weekly 7 (2013).. (UK): Transaction Publishers, 2012. ---. “Step Into My Parlor, Said the Spider to the Fly,” Der Mugrdechian, Barlow. “The Armenians in Massis Weekly 11 (2013). America,” in Immigrants in American History: Ar- Matiossian, Vartan. “The Birth of ‘Great Calamity’: rival, Adaptation, and Integration. ABC-CLIO, 2013. How ‘Medz Yeghern’ Was Introduced onto the World Stage,” The Armenian Weekly, October 27, 2012. Summer 2013 Page 7 ---. “The Evil that We Do Not Know: ‘Medz Yeghern’ Miller (ed.), Suave Mechanicals: Collected Essays and the ‘Old Language,’” The Armenian Weekly, on the History of Bookbinding. Ann Arbor, MI: The December 15, 2012. Legacy Press, 2013. ---. “The First Historian of Armenian Printing,” The Ohanian, Daniel. “Armenian-Ontarian Migration Armenian Weekly, September 1, 2012. and Community: Life Before and After the Armenian Genocide, 1887–1930,” History & Political Science ---. “From Asia Minor to the Rio de la Plata: Smyrna Journal 1.1 (Dec. 2012). and South American Armenian Origins,” in Richard Hovannisian (ed.), Armenian Smyrna/Izmir: The Aegean Communities. Costa Mesa, Ca.: Mazda Stone, M. Armenian Apocrypha Relating to Abraham Publishers, 2012. 263-283. (SBLEJL, 37; Atlanta: SBL, 2012). ---. “The ‘Great Calamity’ Hoax: What ‘Medz ---. “Three Apocryphal Fragments from Armenian Yeghern’ Actually Meant for the Survivors,” The Armenian Weekly, January 5, 2013. Manuscripts,” in Eric F. Mason (ed.), A Teacher for All Generations: Essays in Honor of James C. ---. “The Great Crime that Was Brewing: The Meaning Vanderkam. Leiden: Brill, 2012. 939-946. of ‘Medz Yeghern’ Before 1915,” The Armenian Weekly, December 22, 2012. Stone, M., in collaboration with V. Hillel. The Arme- ---. (ed.) Historical Atlas of Armenia. New York: nian Version of the Testaments of the Twelve Patri- Armenian National Education Committee, 2012. archs: Edition, Apparatus, Translation and Commen- tary. Hebrew University Armenian Series, 11. Leuven: ---. “Hovhannes Shiraz’s Poem ‘Ani’: Simon Simo- Peeters, 2012. nian’s Punishment and the Perils of Memoir Writing,” (in Armenian), Azg-Mshakuyt, February 23, 2013. Stone, M., Hannah M. Cotton et al. Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae Vol 1: Jerusalem, ---. “Kostan Zarian’s Letters to Simon Simonian,” Part 2 705-1120. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012. Pakin 3 (2012), 61-71.

---. “The Letters of Kostan Zarian and Garegin Levo- Stone, M. and Nira Stone, Catalogue of the Additional nian,” Pakin 2 (2012), 63-69. Armenian Manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. Hebrew University Armenian Studies, 12 and ---. Review of Archbishop Hrant Khatchadourian, Chester Beatty Library. Leuven: Peeters, 2012. “Historiography of Fifth Century Armenia,” Armenian Review (Spring-Winter 2012), 218-219. Teotig, “Armenian Printing in America (1857-1912),” translated and edited by Vartan Matiossian, The ---. “The Self-Delusion of ‘Great Calamity’: What Armenian Weekly, September 1, 2012. ‘Medz Yeghern’ Actually Means Today,” The Arme- nian Weekly, January 12, 2013. Zekiyan, Boghos Levon. Venedik’ten Istanbul’a Modern Ermeni Tiyatrosunun ilk adımları. Ermeni ---. “The Turkish-Made ‘Great Calamity’: How ‘Medz Rönesansı ve Mıkhitaristlerin tiyatro faaliyetleri. Yeghern’ Became ‘Büyük Felâket,’ ” The Armenian BGST Yayınları: İstanbul, 2013. Weekly, November 10, 2012. Zubov, Platon P. The Astrologer of Karabagh or the ---. “When Dictionaries Are Left Unopened: How Establishment of the Fortres of Shushi: A Transcau- ‘Medz Yeghern’ Turned into Terminology of Denial,” casian Historical Novel. Trans. Artashes Emin and ed. The Armenian Weekly, December 1, 2012. with an introduction, annotations, and bibliography by Ara Ghazarians. Merian, S. “Protection Against the Evil Eye? Votive Offerings on Armenian Manuscript Bindings,” in Julia

Society for Armenian Studies Newsletter Page 8 ---. Review of D. Robinson, “Translation and the Prob- Forthcoming lem of Sway,” Translation Studies (2013). ublications P ---. “Translating Genocide Narrative,” in Brodzki, B Bertram, C. “Images of Place: The Legacy of the and Demaria C. (eds.), Translating memory across Ottoman Past in Modern Turkey,” in Lucia Volk cultures and disciplines (2014). (ed.), The Middle East in the World: An Introductory Guide. ME Sharpe, Global Studies Series: New York, Merian, Sylvie. “The Armenian Silversmiths Kesaria/ forthcoming Nov. 2013. Kayseri: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” in Richard G. Hovannisian (ed.), Armenian Kesaria/ Boulgourdjian-Toufeksian, Nélida. Convergencias y Caesarea and Cappadocia. UCLA Armenian History divergencias en vínculos dinámicos y complejos de un and Culture Series, Historic Armenian Cities and “pueblo en diáspora”. El caso de la diáspora armenia Provinces 12. Forthcoming 2013. de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires: EDICUT, Seminario Rabínico, in press. ---. “Illuminating the Apocalypse in Seventeenth- Century Armenian Manuscripts: The Transition from Dadoyan, Seta. The Armenians in the Medieval Printed Book to Manuscript,” in Kevork Bardakjian Islamic World- Paradigms of Interaction. Volume and Sergio La Porta (eds.), The Armenian Apocalyptic III. Medieval Cosmopolitanism and Images of Islam Tradition: A Comparative Perspective (Proceedings of -Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries. New Brunswick a Conference held at the University of Michigan, Oct. (U.S.A.) & London (UK): Transaction Publishers, 16-19, 2008) [working title]. Forthcoming 2013. Nov. 2013. Stone, M. Adam and Eve in the Armenian Tradition, 3 Der Mugrdechian, Barlow. Review of Rubina vols. in press. Peroomian, The Armenian Genocide in Literature: Perceptions of Those Who Lived Through the Years of ---. “After Thoughts” in Lester Grabbe (ed.), Proceed- Calamity. JSAS 21. ings of the Nangeroni Conference (2012). In press. Der Mugrdechian, Barlow and Dickran Kouymjian “David of Sassoun: Critical Studies on the Armenian ---. “The Armenian Apocryphal Literature of the Old Epic.” 2013. Testament in the Twentieth Century,” in V. Calzolari- Bouvier and M.E. Stone (eds.), Proceedings of Geneva Dostourian, Ara. Armenia and the Crusades: the Workshop on Armenian Philology. in press. Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, Revised Second Edi- tion, NAASR Armenian Heritage Press, projected date late 2013-early 2014. ---. “The Armenian Inscriptions” in D. Amit, and S. Wolf (eds,), Report on Excavations of the Third Wall. Ghazarians, Ara. Raffi: Kensamatenagitut‘iwn [Raffi: Jerusalem: Israel Antiquities Authority, in press. Bio-Bibliography]: A multilingual bibliography and a trilingual (Armenia, English, Russian) introduction and preface. A publication of the Armenian Cultural ---. “Biblical and Apocryphal Themes in Armenian Foundation. Fall 2013. Culture,” in R. Gounelle (ed.), Proceedings of Stras- bourg Conference of January 2010. In press. Haroutyunian, Sona. “L’alter ego di Vittoria Aga- noor: l’identità armena della poetessa” in Bazmavep ---. “The Cedar in Jewish Antiquity,” paper presented (2013). at Talmudic Archeology, London, June 2009. In press. ---. “Armenian Literature in Italian Translation 1991- 2012,” in Bazmavep (2013). ---. “Jewish Apocalyptic Literature in the Armenian Tradition,” paper presented at Conference on Arme- nian Apocalyptic, Jerusalem 2007. in press.

Summer 2013 Page 9 ---. “The Reception and Transmission of the Abraham Employment Traditions in Armenian,” Proceedings of Orion Centre Symposium 2011, in press. Opportunities Armenian Studies Program ---. Review of A-M. Denis, Introduction à la litté- Henry S. Khanzadian Kazan Visiting Professor- rature religieuse judéo-hellénistique in Apocrypha, ship in Armenian Studies at California State Uni- Pseudepigrapha and Armenian Studies 3. in press. versity, Fresno

---. Review of Charlotte Hempel and Judith M. Lieu • Multiple one semester appointments are being filled. (eds.), Biblical Traditions in Transmission: Essays in An appointment will be for one semester only: Fall Honour of Michael A. Knibb in CBQ. in press. 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, or Spring 2016. ---. Review of Matthias Henze, Jewish Apocalypticism • Fresno State has been recognized as a Community in Late First Century Israel: Reading Second Baruch Engagement University by The Carnegie Foundation in Context (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, for the Advancement of Teaching. 142) in JJS 64.1 (2013). • Fresno State has been recognized as a Hispanic-serv- ing institution ---. Secret Books and Traditions in Ancient Judaism. • Salary placement depends upon academic prepara- Charlotte: UNCC, 2011. pamphlet in press. tion and professional experience. • Instructional Level: Undergraduate and Graduate ---. “Seeing and Understanding in 4 Ezra,” in Jon Ash- ton (ed.), Christopher Rowland FS. in press. Position Characteristics: The successful candidate will teach a course in Armenian Studies in the modern period (19th century or later) with an emphasis on the ---. “Some Considerations on the Categories “Bible” Armenian Genocide. Candidates should indicate the and “Apocrypha,” paper presented at Orion Center for specific content they would propose to cover in this the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls 2007, 2009. in press. course by including a very brief outline. The visiting faculty member may teach more than one course. ---.“Two Stories about the Ark of the Covenant,” in Fr. Daniel Findikyan (ed.), Charles Renoux FS. in press. In addition, the Kazan Visiting Professor will give three public lectures on a single topic to be published thereafter as a monograph. Candidates should indi- Stone, Michael with Esther Eshel, “Aramaic Levi cate their choice of three-lecture topic by title in their Document,” in The Lost Bible (JPS). in press. letter of application. The successful candidate may be expected to teach in a distance learning mode, and will ---. “Judaism in Palestine in the Hellenistic-Roman Pe- be expected to work cooperatively with faculty and riods,” in William Adler (ed.), The Cambridge History staff in the department and college. of Religions in the Ancient World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2013 in press. 2.87-115. Academic Preparation: An earned doctorate with a record of publication in Armenian Studies, Armenian Stone, Michael and Nira Stone, The Armenian History, or related field. Ph.D. in Armenian Studies or Holdings of the Chester Beatty Library: The Metal related field is preferred. Covers and the Old Printings. Dublin: Chester Beatty Library, in press. Teaching or Other Experience: The university is seek- ing candidates who possess a record of distinguished publication and research in modern Armenian Studies Society for Armenian Studies Newsletter Page 10 and whose professional career has been in university teaching or research in Armenian Studies, Armenian New Members History, or a closely related field. The successful can- didate must have the ability to work effectively with Regular member: faculty, staff and students from diverse ethnic, cultural, Avetyan, Nora. UCLA. and socioeconomic backgrounds. Armenian culture, literature, and religion.

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