THURSDAY, 1 APRIL 2004
SESSION I
9:00 – 9:30 - Opening Remarks
9:30 – 12:00 - Beginnings
Hewsen , “Trdat’s Conversion”
Thomson, “The Conversion of Armenia”
Cox, “Translation of the Bible”
Thomson, “Early Armenian Literature: An Overview”
Calzolari, “Armenian Apocryphal literature”
Hovhannisyan, “The Armenian New Testament Apocrypha: An Overview”
SESSION II
14:00 -17:00 - Independent Armenia
Rapp, “Duin III, An Historiographical Odyssey : Relationship of the Armenian and Eastern Georgian Churches to the Seventh Century”
Greenwood, “The Church in the Seventh Century”
Mahé, “Yovhannēs Ōjnec‘i and the Struggle against Dissidents”
Weitenberg, “Classical Armenian as a Vehicle of Sacred Expression”
Feulner, “Development of Armenian Liturgical Traditions”
Terian, “The Development of a Dogma”
FRIDAY, 2 APRIL, 2004
SESSION III
9:00 – 12:10 - On the International Stage
Russell, “Lingering pre-Christian Traditions”
Yuzbashyan, “The Church under Islam”
Mahé, “Role of the Catholicos”
Bozoyan, “The Church of Armenia and the Comnenoi”
Mutafian, “Cilicia’s Relations with the Crusaders”
Halfter, “Armenian-Papal Relations”
Ervine, “Armenians in the Holy Land”
van Lint, “Development of Scholarhsip: Commentaries, Law-Code, Philosophy”
SESSION IV
14:00 – 17:30 - Greater Armenia
La Porta, “Development of Major Monastic Centers”
Ter-Stepanyan, “Feasts in Yaysmawurk‘ ”
Kouymjian, “Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts”
Bundy, “The Church and the Mongols”
Cowe, “Catholic Missions and anti-Catholic Writings”
Krikorian, Abp, “The Return to Ēĵmiacin”
Ghougassian, “New Armenian Communities in Safavid Iran and Their Relations with the Mother See of Ēĵmiacin”
Baybourtian, “The Indian Community and its Relations with Ēĵmiacin”
SATURDAY, 3 APRIL, 2004
SESSION V
9:00 – 12:10 - East and West
Bardakjian, “The Patriarchate of Constantinople”
Sinclair, “Armenian Communities in Asia Minor”
Bournoutian, “The Armenian Church and Russia, 1700-1914”
Kevorkian, “Armenian Printing”
Bardakjian, “The Eighteenth Century”
Kevorkian, “Ties with Europe: the Church and the Earliest Initiatives of Liberation”
Stepanyan, “Polemical Literature in Armeno-Turkish”
Merguerian, “The Armenian Protestant Community”
SESSION VI
14:00 – 16:50- Modern Times
Boyajian, “Armenian Sacred Music in the 20th Century: DOA”
Vaux, “Language and Religion in the Construction of Modern Armenian Identity”
Cox, “Efforts toward a Critical Text of the Armenian Bible”
Libaridian, “The Church and the Political Parties”
Davidian, Rvd, “The Church since the 1990s”
Krikorian, Abp, “The Church and Oecumenism”
