Organized by the Armenian Studies Program, University of Michigan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
April 16-19, 2009
Friday, 17 April, 2009
Session I
9:00 -12:15
Chair: Theo van Lint
Contin: “The concepts of act and sensation in the Definitions of philosophy by David the Invincible”
Vacca: “Reconciling Armenian and Islamic historiography: seventh century Arab incursions in Armenia”
Boyadjian: “An Armenian Princess, a Mongol King, and a conversation tale: the Middle English didactic romance, King of Tars, and its analogs”
Hambardzumyan: “Some versions of the Armenian epic poem, Sasna Tzrer.”
Session II
14:00 – 18:00
Chair: Kevork Bardakjian
Pifer: “Encounters with the ineffable and the role of the senses in the gardens of Armenian medieval poetry”
Ertan: “Eremia Č‘elepi Kēōmiwrčean and the question of Messianism/Millenarianism in 17th century Ottoman society”
Karapetian: “The drama and dramatist in Hovhannes Tumanian”
Johnson: “A new woman's magazine: Hayastani ashkhatavoruhi and the cultural production of gender norms in the early Soviet period”
Saturday , 18 April, 2009
Session III
9:00 – 12:15
Chair: Khachig Tololyan
Hovhannisyan: “I write, therefore I exist”
Danielyan: “The contemporary novel in Armenia”
Douzjian: “Madness, memory and forgetting in post-soviet emptiness: Aghasi Ayvazyan’s Dekorner and Gurgen Khanjyan’s Averakneri pahakě"
Chahinian: “Narrative time and Diaspora’s new novel: a look at Krikor Beledian’s Anuně lezuis tak”
Der Mugrdechian: “Genocide, identity, and memory in post-Genocide Armenian-American literature”
Session IV
14:00 – 18:00
Chair: Talar Chahinian
This session is devoted to translation. Papers and remarks will be followed by a general discussion.
Haroutyunian: “The reception and translation of Dante in the Armenian World”
Tölölyan: “Durian and translation: many journeys, several destinations, no arrival”
van Lint: “Translation and other creation: the international context of Armenian culture”
Bardakjian: “Translation: an art of creation or simulation?”
Sunday, 19 April, 2009
Chair: Barlow Der Mugrdechian
A round-table discussion, Armenia – Diaspora literary relations
Certain themes to be explored:
- Language and expression
- Content
- Influences
- Relations
