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Society for Armenian Studies Newsletter Volume XXXVI, No Society for Armenian Studies Newsletter Volume XXXVI, No. 2 (77), Fall 2012 Ara Sanjian, Presenter SAS ANNUAL MEETING Ohannes Geukjian, Presenter In conjunction with the Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference: The Armenian communities in Lebanon and Syria grew rapidly at the beginning of the twentieth century, Executive Council Meeting with the Armenians forming well-organized minori- Saturday, 11/17, 2-4pm, Plaza Court 2 (Plaza-C) ties. Community organizations, churches, and schools Membership Meeting, Saturday, 11/17, 4:30-6:30pm, provided a matrix for the maintenance of Armenian Plaza Court 4 (Plaza-C) identity. At the same time the Armenians engaged Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel themselves in the larger political life of the respective 1550 Court Place states. The three papers in this panel explore different Denver CO 80202 facets in the formation and maintenance of the Arme- nian communities, analyzing the impact of the policies Panel: Armenians in the Modern World of the respective states on the Armenians, but also how Saturday, 11/17/12 5:30pm broader issues in the Armenian community around the Arda Melkonian, Presenter world affected the Armenians in Lebanon and Syria. Doris Melkonian, Presenter Serife Eroglu Memis, Presenter Panel: Armenia in Dialogue with the Near East, 8-15th Centuries Workshop: New Strategies and Methodologies for Monday, 11/19/12 11:00am Teaching of Modern Armenian Sunday, 11/18/12 4:30pm Sponsor: SAS Kevork Bardakjian, Chair Sergio La Porta, Chair, Presenter Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Presenter, Discussant Michael Bonner, Discussant Ani Kasparian, Presenter Michael Pifer, Presenter Alison Vacca, Presenter This roundtable proposes to explore the present status Christina Maranci, Presenter of instructional technology for the teaching of modern Armenian (both Western and Eastern). How might we understand the multiple avenues by which peoples of the Near East encounter, perceive, Panel: History and Community: The Armenians of shape and are shaped by one another? This panel Lebanon and Syria seeks to address this increasingly prevalent problem by examining how Armenia, a longtime player in a Monday, 11/19/12 8:30am wide spectrum of Near Eastern societies, has actively engaged her neighbors as a partner and co-constituent Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Chair in the dynamics of regional change from the 8th to the Kevork Bardakjian, Discussant 15th centuries. Vahram Shemmas- sian, Presenter 13 February 2012 UPCOMING AND ECENT ECTURES Seyranian, V. (Department of Psychology, USC). R L “Armenians in the Diaspora: How a minority can influence the majority.” Sponsored by the USC January 2012 Institute of Armenian Studies. 10 January 2012 20 February 2012 Zekiyan, B. Presentation of the volume: Storia reli- Mirak-Weissbach, M. “Madmen at the Helm: Pa- giosa dell’Armenia, Luciano Vaccaro and B.L. Ze- thology and Politics in the Arab Spring.” Lecture and kiyan (eds.). Casa Armena, Milano. Book launch of the Arabic edition, Jordanian Writers 23 January 2012 Association. Amman, Jordan. Armoudian, M. (Author, Scholar, Broadcaster, 27 February 2012 Comissioner). “The Media’s Role in the Fate of the Arzumanian, A. (Vice President of Programs at Big World.” A Presentation Based on her book Kill the Brothers Big Sisters Los Angeles). “The Lost Kids of Messenger (Prometheus Books, 2011). Sponsored by Armenian America.” Sponsored by the USC Institute the USC Institute of Armenian Studies. of Armenian Studies. Mirak-Weissbach, M. “Through the Wall of Fire: March 2012 Armenia – Palestine – Iraq.” Lecture and Book launch, Hrant-Dink Forum. Cologne, Germany. 6 March 2012 30 January 2012 Dadoyan, S. “Armenian Narratives, Studies and Re- alities.” Aztag Daily Lsaran, # 68. Ignatius, P. R. (Former U.S. Secretary of the Navy and Assistant Secretary of Defense, Distinguished Miller, D. E. (Director, USC Center for Religion and USC Alumnus). “Now I Know In Part: An Armenian- Civic Culture). “Armenia & Rwanda: a Comparative American Reflects on His Life and Times.” Sponsored Analysis of Two Genocides.” Sponsored by the USC by the USC Institute of Armenian Studies. Institute of Armenian Studies. February 2012 10 March 2012 Ohanian, D. “Armenian-Ontarian Migration and Zekiyan, B. “Venezia e Veneto, terra di accoglienza Community Life from 1887 to 1930.” Third Annual storica e le presenze armene” at the cycle of lectures Undergraduate History Conference, York University. Costuire il passato nel presente. Biblioteca Zenobiana del Temanza, Venice. 6 February 2012 19 March 2012 Ketabgian, G. (Endocrinology & Internal Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine Alumnus). “Etigenetics Simonian, S. (Visiting Professor of Religion at & Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Armenian University of California, Los Angeles). “The Influence Genocide Survivors.” Sponsored by the USC Institute of Collaboration on Communal Problem Solution of Armenian Studies. and Prevention.” Sponsored by the USC Institute of Armenian Studies. 10 February 2012 22 March 2012 Mirak-Weissbach, M. “My Armenian Grandmother: Turkey and Its Identity.” Lepsiushaus, Potsdam, Ger- Dadoyan, S. “Rethinking the Armenian Experience in many. the Near East.” Haigazian University. Society for Armenian Studies Newsletter Page 2 26 March 2012 16 April 2012 Sassounian, H. (Publisher, The California Courier Der Yeghiayan, G. (President, Mashdots College, & President, The United Armenian Fund). “Does Glendale). “The Presence of the Past: Pilgrimage to French Law Penalizing Genocide Denial Restrict Free Western Armenia and Cilicia.” Sponsored by the USC Speech?” Sponsored by the USC Institute of Armenian Institute of Armenian Studies. Studies. 17 April 2012 29 March 2012 Dadoyan, S. Meet the Author & Book Signing. Gruner, W. (Shapell-Guerin Chair in Jewish ABRIL Bookstore. Glendale, CA. Studies & Professor of History). “Forgotten Places of Persecution: German Municipalities and the 18 April 2012 Holocaust.” Sponsored by the USC Institute of Zekiyan, B. “Istanbul’da Ermeni Edebiyatı.” Istanbul Armenian Studies. Sehir Universitesi. April 2012 19 April 2012 Ohanian, D. Keynote address, official com- Bardakjian, K. The 16th Annual Vardanants memoration of the Armenian Genocide. Day Armenian Lecture, “Scribes, Composi- Armenian Community Centre. Hamilton, tors and the Mind in the Making: the Arme- Ontario. nian Script and the Creation of an Armenian 2 April 2012 Literary Identity,” as the opening lecture of the exhibition To Know Wisdom and Instruc- Zerunyan, F. V. (Sr. Fellow and Director tion: The Armenian Literary Tradition at the of Executive Education USC Sol Price Library of Congress. The Library of Con- School of Public Policy). “Competence, gress, Washington DC. Perseverance and Passion.” Sponsored by the USC Institute of Armenian Studies. Charny, I. (Executive Director, Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide, Jerusalem). 3 April 2012 “New Faces of Denial Join Old Faces of Denial.” From the Armenian Genocide and Peroomian, R. Press Conference and TV the Holocaust to Cambodia, Srebrenica and presentation on the occasion of the publica- Rwanda. Sponsored by the USC Institute of tion of The Armenian Genocide in Literature. Armenian Studies. Yerevan. 22 April 2012 9 April 2012 Dadoyan, S. “The Armenians and Islam: Images for Miller, D. E. (School of Religion) & Dekmejian, R. a Brighter History of the Armenians.” Ararat Eskijian H. (School of Political Science). “What is Genocide?” Museum, Mission Hills, CA. Panel discussion. Moderated by F. Bessey (Student, Incoming STAND President). Sponsored by the USC 23 April 2012 Institute of Armenian Studies. Charny, I. (Executive Director, Institute on the Holo- 12 April 2012 caust and Genocide, Jerusalem). “Israel and the Arme- nian Genocide: Are Victim Peoples More Ethical Than Dadoyan, S. “Rethinking Armenian History through Others?” Sponsored by the USC Institute of Armenian Paradigms of Interaction: The Armenian Experience Studies. with Islam as Case Study.” UCLA Center for Near East Studies. Fall 2012 Page 3 Peroomian, R. Keynote speaker at the Armenian June 2012 genocide commemoration organized by the Armenian Student Association of the University of California, 4 – 6 June 2012 Berkeley. Bardakjian, K. “Creating and disseminating knowl- 26 April 2012 edge: the Arabic and Armenian manuscript traditions.” at the 34th annual conference of MELCom (Middle Dadoyan, S. “Armenian Identity, Knowledge and East Librarians Committee) hosted by BULAC. Paris. Studies: Synthesis and/or Controversy.” ARPA (Analysis Research and Planning. Armenia Armenian 6 June 2012 Evangelical School, Sherman Oaks, CA. Dadoyan, S. “The Armenian Condition-Problems in May 2012 Hindsight and Foresight and the Moment of Discern- ment.” ARPA (Analysis Research and Planning for Ohanian, D. “The Armenian Genocide, its Denial Armenia) Forum-Round Table. Sherman Oaks, CA. and Recent Changes in Turkey.” Langstaff Secondary School. 24 June – 1 July 2012 4 May 2012 Bardakjian, K. “Armenian historiography of the late Medieval and early Modern Ages: Accomplishments Peroomian, R. “The Forty Days of Musa Dagh: A and Prospects.” The Historical Cultural Heritage of Timeless Tale of Resistance, Love, and Gallantry.” the Armenian Highland. Yerevan, Armenia and Step- Glendale Central Library, organized by Abril Book- anakert, Nagorno-Karabakh. store. 28 June 2012 Zekiyan, B. “La civiltà armena nel mondo di oggi.” Ist. Tevere, Roma. Peroomian, R. “A presentation of The Armenian Genocide in Literature, Perceptions of Those who 19 May 2012 Lived through the Years of Calamity.” Glendale Cen- tral
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