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The Armenian Series at Fresno State the Armenian Studies Program Awarded Scholarships and General Editor: Prof California State University, Fresno Armenian Studies Program Non-Profit and Armenian Students Organization U.S. Postage 5245 N. Backer Ave. M/S PB 4 PAID Fresno, CA 93740-8001 Permit No. 262 Change Service Requested FRESNO, CA HYE SHARZHOOM Armenian Action th FA| <ARVOUM 39 Year December 2017 Vol. 39, No. 2 (140) Ethnic Supplement to The Collegian Society for Armenian Studies Holds Faculty and Students Report on Armenia Summer Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Study Trip 2017 to Community Audience CLAIRE KASAIAN STAFF WRITER Professors Barlow Der Mugrdechian and Professor Hagop Ohanessian and students who participated in the Armenia Study Abroad Trip 2017, May 24-June 9, shared their reflections at a community lecture on Tuesday, October 24. Professor Der Mugrdechian introduced the students and thanked the Leon S. Peters Foundation and the Continuing Global Education Division at Fresno State for Photo: Hourig Attarian providing students with financial Left to right: Michael Rettig, Tatevik Hovhannisyan, David support to give students the Safrazian, Claire Kasaian, Annie Rubio, Prof. Barlow Der Left to right: Dr. Richard Hovannisian, Asya Darbinyan, opportunity to go on this trip. Mugrdechian, Marine Vardanyan, Mitchell Peters, Shelbie Varak Ketsemanian, Dr. Sylvia Kasparian, Ambassador Grig- Prof. Der Mugrdechian has Ohanessian, Dikran Dzhezyan, Marina Chardukian, Prof. or Hovhannissian, Dr. Rouben Adalian, and SAS President led eight study-abroad trips to Hagop Ohanessian, and Kara Statler. Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian at the Armenian Embassy. Armenia, beginning in 1988, with from various regions of Armenia Gyumri, and the monastery of Photo: ASP Archive StaFF REPORT a total of 82 student participants. that the students visited. Dilijan, Tatev were among the major sites 18. The innovative conference, Prof. Der Mugrdechian began Haghartsin, the monastery of visited. The Society for Armenian co-sponsored by the Society for the presentation with a PowerPoint Geghard, the Temple of Garni, Student participants of the trip Studies (SAS) held a series of Armenian Studies (SAS) and that included maps and photos Holy Etchmiadzin, Lake Sevan, SEE ARMENIA PAGE 4 activities and a conference to the Armenian Communities mark its 44th Annual Meeting, Department of the Gulbenkian “Top Dog” Warren Paboojian Establishes Award held this year in Washington, D.C. Foundation, was held at the ICHAEL ETTIG The featured event was Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, in M R Paboojian Foundation, is the an international conference, Washington, D.C. EDITOR first designated to support Hye “Transmitting Western Armenian The SAS held its Annual Sharzhoom. to the Next Generation” that took Meeting on November 18, The lasting impact that the Paboojian studied Journalism place on Saturday, November Armenian Studies Program has at Fresno State and graduated with SEE SAS PAGE 7 had on its alumni is often reflected his Bachelor’s degree in 1980. in the support these former While a student, Paboojian wrote National Chamber Choir of students give to the Program. In the for Insight, the then Journalism Armenia Performs at Fresno State Fall 2017 semester, local attorney Department’s newspaper, as Warren Paboojian established the well as the student-run Daily “Warren R. Paboojian Award” Collegian. When a group of Photo: ASP Archive Photo: ASP to annually recognize the Editor his classmates, including Mark Fresno State Alumnus of Hye Sharzhoom. This award, SEE PABOOJIAN PAGE 6 Warren Paboojian funded by the Warren and Lesa Türkyılmaz Appointed as 14th Kazan Visiting Prof. StaFF REPORT Constantinople. The seminar will elaborate on various intellectual Armenian Studies Program trends and influences in these three Coordinator Prof. Barlow Der centers involving two empires. Mugrdechian announced Dr. This course gives a comparative Yektan Türkyılmaz has been and multi-disciplinary perspective appointed the 14th Henry S. on the trajectory of Armenian Khanzadian Kazan Visiting modernization and its intellectual Professor in Armenian Studies at and cultural consequences. Fresno State for the Spring 2018 The course aims to offer semester. The Kazan Visiting students an assessment of the Photo: ASP Archive Photo: ASP Photo: Barlow Der Mugrdechian Professorship was established Ottoman Armenian communities The National Chamber Choir of Armenia performed October through a generous endowment Dr. Yektan Türkyılmaz on the eve of the catastrophe, 29 at Fresno State. established by Henry S. Kazan. territories of the Ottoman Empire. providing them with a solid and Dr. Richard Hovannisian was Dr. Türkyılmaz will be critical understanding of the DIANA GASPARYAN Chapter of Fresno were co- appointed as the first incumbent teaching a three-unit course in antecedents of the Genocide. STAFF WRITER sponsors for the event, which to the position in Fall of 2000. the Spring Semester, “A Social, Dr. Türkyılmaz completed attracted an enthusiastic audience Dr. Türkyılmaz’s area of Cultural, and Political History his doctoral dissertation Gracing stages across the of more than 250. interest is in the interplay between of Armenian Urbanism.” This on “Rethinking Genocide: world, the National Chamber The internationally recognized the political and historical course will survey the social, Violence and Victimhood in Choir of Armenia performed in 35-person choir has an extensive processes in producing cultural political, and cultural dynamics Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1915” Fresno State’s Concert Hall on repertoire of songs, ranging from meaning and collective identities. throughout the Armenian at Duke University in 2011. Sunday, October 29. Bach and Debussy to Komitas His research addresses collective Renaissance—1863-1918, The dissertation is a study of The Armenian Studies and Tigranian. For the Fresno violence, social movements, exploring urban life in the the essential role of discourses Program at Fresno State and the performance, the choir mainly trauma, and the politics of three Armenian centers of Hamazkayin Taniel Varoujan SEE TÜRKYILMAZ PAGE 2 SEE CHOIR PAGE 7 historical memory in the former modernization: Van, Tiflis, and 2 Hye Sharzhoom December 2017 Armenian Studies Program California State University, Fresno Book/Video/CD Archival Gifts Armenian Studies Program Prof. Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Prof. Sergio La Porta, and the Armenian Studies Program would like to thank the donors, authors, and publishers for the following books, periodicals, videos, Spring 2018 Schedule of Courses and archival gifts, either offered personally, or to the Program. Course Units Time Day Instructor Dr. Hayk Demoyan, Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute, General Education-Breadth, Humanities, Area C2 Yerevan, Armenia, for copies of the International Journal of • Arm 1B-Elementary Armenian 4 10:00A-11:50A MW B. Der Mugrdechian Armenian Genocide Studies (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2015 and Vol. 2, No. 1, 2015) and for a copy of his book Armenian Sports and Athletics (Class #32357) in the Ottoman Empire (Yerevan: Armenian Genocide, Museum & General Education-Breadth, Arts, Area C1 Institute, 2015), 275pp., in English. • ArmS 20-Arts of Armenia 3 11:00A-12:15P TuTh B. Der Mugrdechian E. Aras Ergüneş, Hrant Dink Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey, for a copy (Class #33475) of Izmitli Ermeniler Konuşuyor (The Izmit Armenians Speak), General Education-Breadth, Area D3 133pp., in Turkish. Volume 4 in a series of books on Armenians published by the Hrant Dink Foundation. • ArmS 10-Intro Arm Studies 3 2:00P-3:15P MW H. Ohanessian George Hintlian, Old City Jerusalem, for a copy of Khatchkar: The (Class #33569) Art of the Khatchkar by Haroutioun Khatchadourian and Michel General Education-Integration, Area IC Basmadjian (Geuthner, 2014), 441pp., in French. This beautifully • Arm 148-Mastrpcs Arm Cult 3 3:30P-4:45P MW H. Ohanessian illustrated volume gives a detailed history of the Armenian (Class #33592) Khatchkar (Stone-cross). Ambassador Grigor Hovhannissian, Washington, D.C, for the book Upper Division Armenian Studies Course Jean Kazandjian (Los Angeles, 2008), 319pp., in French and • ArmS 108B-Arm History II 3 9:30A-10:45A MW B. Der Mugrdechian English. This is an album devoted to the work of the noted artist (Class #32356) Jean Kazandjian. • ArmS 120T-Arm Urbanism 3 2:00P-3:15P MW Kazan Visiting Prof. Gary A. Kulhanjian, Rancho Cucamonga, for a copy of A Shirt for (Class #36342) the Brave by Hagop K. Beshlian, with an introduction by Gary A. Kulhanjian (London: Gomidas Institute, 2017), 88pp., in English. The book is an account of the life of Dr. Beshlian, who For more information call the Armenian Studies Program at 278-2669. was conscripted into the Ottoman army in World War I, serving Get a Minor in Armenian Studies. in Gallipoli, Poland, Iraq, and Palestine. He later returned to his birthplace of Urfa, but then immigrated to the United States after Check on requirements for the Minor in Armenian Studies in the current catalog. the Kemalists established control of the area. Ara Madzounian, Los Angeles, for a copy of his new book, Birds http://www.fresnostate.edu/catalog/subjects/armenian-studies/armenia-mn.html Nest: A Photographic Essay of Bourj Hammoud (2017). The book is a photographic tribute to the residents of Bourj Hammoud, Beirut, Lebanon. Madzounian, an independent producer, director, and cinematographer, wanted “to create a lasting legacy about a place, which for more than 50 years served as cultural, intellectual HYE SHARZHOOM and political beacon for the Armenian Diaspora.” Dr. Vartan Matiossian and Dr. Artsvi Bakhchinyan, for
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