31st Armenian Studies Day

This 31st Armenian Studies Day is organized by Inalco, Sedyl and the Society for Armenian Studies.
Paysage de montagnes avec des maisons en premier plan et un nid de cigognes
Nid de cigognes, Arménie © Anaïd Donabedian-Demopoulos‎

9am - Welcome

Panel 1 - Penser l'émancipation des Arméniens : sources et débats au XIXe siècle.

Session chair: Satenig Batwagan (SEA)

9:30am - Can Erzurumluoglu (Caen-Normandie). The controversy surrounding Metodi Vra (De la méthode): the reception of positivism and materialism in the Ottoman Armenian intellectual milieu.

9:50am - Gérard Malkassian (Inalco). Mikaël Nalbandian : Social-economic revolution and national question.

10:10am - Haik Der Haroutiounian (SEA). Hovsep Vartanian's Constitutional truths: conditions for living together.

10:30am - Discussion

11am - Coffee break

Panel 2 - To leave or to stay.

Session chair: Claire Mouradian (EHESS, CERCEC and CNRS)

11:30am - Anna Theodorides (IREST - Université Panthéon-Sorbonne), To leave or to stay. Le dilemme des Grecs d'Istanbul au lendemain des pogroms de 1955.

11:50am - Varvara Basmadjian (SEA). September 6, 1955. Bloody night of rioting in Constantinople. Memories. Reading and archive screening.

12:10pm - Discussion

12:40pm - Lunch

2pm - Duo NoTa Tandem (Tatève and Noïem Thomas). Armenian music: yesterday and today, instrumental and vocal performance.

Panel 3 - Fragments and survivals: Transmission and creation.

Session chair: Varvara Basmadjian (SEA)

2:30pm - Varduhi Kirakosyan (Paris 1). From catastrophe to its survivals: memory and materiality in Melik Ohanian's PULP OFF.

2:50pm - Anahide Kasparian (AMU). Textile historiographies of the post-Ottoman space through the case of Armenian embroidery (XIX-XXe centuries).

3:10pm - Discussion

3:40pm - Coffee break

Panel 4 - Armenia, contemporary issues.

Session chair: Anaïd Donabedian (Inalco, CREE)

4:10pm Siranush Dvoyan (AUA, Comité à la langue, RA). Հայաստանի Հանրապետության լեզվական պետական քաղաքականության երկու հարացույցը (The two paradigms of the Republic of Armenia's language policy)

4:30pm Gohar Haroutiounian (Independent researcher). Two ecclesiological models in the Church of Armenia and the current crisis.

4:50pm - Gohar Stepanyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the RA Academy of Sciences): Portable Homeland: Language, Materiality, and Prolepsis in the Context of Multiple Displacements from Artsakh

5:10pm - Discussion

5:40pm - Closing remarks by Claire Mouradian, President of the SEA

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