Eighth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop
April 21-22, 2017 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Workshop Program
Friday, April 21
10:15 AM Opening remarks
Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan
Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan
10:30 AM Sexuality and Subculture
Chair: Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan
Discussant: Scott Spector, University of Michigan
Rosie Vartyter Aroush, University of California, Los Angeles Being LGBQ and Armenian: Struggles & Strategies with Identity Negotiation and Community Experiences
Vazken Davidian, Birkbeck, University of London Sex and the City: The Bantoukhd from Ottoman Armenia in Late Nineteenth Century Constantinople
Marine Ghazaryan, Yerevan State University Social Psychology of Gender in Hagop Oshagan's Short Stories
12:30 – 2:00 PM Break
2:00 PM History of Emotions
Chair: Dzovinar Derderian, University of Michigan
Discussant: Helmut Puff, University of Michigan
Carla Kekejian, University of California, Los Angeles Harsneren: Language of the Armenian Bride
Meltem Şafak, University of Georgia The New Ideal and Male Hysteria in the Ottoman Empire
Tamar Shirinian, Millsaps College A Room of One's Own: Feminism and the Constraints of the Nation- Family in Post-Soviet Armenia
4:00 – 4:30 PM Break
4:30 PM Open Discussion
Moderator: Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan
Saturday, April 22
10:30 AM Performativity/Orality
Chair: Jean Hardy, University of Michigan
Discussant: Tara Ward, University of Michigan
Alyssa Mathias, University of California, Los Angeles What does a Folk Song Mean to a Woman? Conflicting Perspective in Theory and in Practice
Nazli Beyleryan, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales The Memorial Issue of “Armenians in Turkey” Compelling to Forget in the Post-Genocide Period: Speeches of the Armenian Women in Post Genocide
12:30 – 1:30 PM Break
1:30 PM Soviet Moralities
Chair: Scott De Orio, University of Michigan
Discussant: Irina Aristarkhova, University of Michigan
Veronika Zablotsky, University of California, Santa Cruz Soviet Vitalism, Women’s Emancipation, and the Fight Against ‘Living Remnants’ in Early Soviet Armenia, 1921–1930
Lilit Manukyan, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Deconstructing a “Proper” Woman’s Image through Clothing in Late-Soviet Armenia: From Daily Practices to Official Discourse
3:00 – 3:30 PM Break
3:30 PM Concluding Remarks & Discussion
Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan
Jeremy Johnson, University of Michigan
