Society for Armenian Studies Newsletter Volume XXXVIII, No. 1 (79), Summer 2014

SAS ANNUAL MEETING The Society for Armenian Studies will be holding its 40th annual Membership Meeting from 4:30PM-6:30PM on Saturday, November 22. The meeting will be held in the Jefferson Room of the Mariott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road NW, in Washington, DC. The SAS meeting will be held in conjunction with the Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference.

RECENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS 2013 9 May Alexander, E. “My Career and Life as a Diplomat.” Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Boston.  31 August – 1 September Dadoyan, S. “The Cycle of Mahmet Legends: The Armenian Muḥammad.” Workshop on Armenian Folklore and Mythology. AIEA, SAS and the Harvard Program in Armenian Studies, Boston, MA. 5 September Tchilingirian, H. “The Future Prospects for the Caucasus and the Wider Caspian Region.” London headquarters, The D Group. 16 September Suny, R. “The Making of a Bolshevik: Stalin From Koba to Commissar.” University of Pennsylvania. A seminar by the same name was given at the Russian history workshop at Georgetown University on 27 September.

25-27 September Bardakjian, K. B. “The Origins of the Designation Amira.” The VIII International Conference on Comparative-Historical Linguistics, Lomonosov State University, Moscow. 29 September Bardakjian, K. B. “Dogma and Identity: the Political Role of the Armenian Church.” The Seminary of the Russian Orthodox Church at Zagorsk. 2 – 5 October Boulgourdjian, N. “Refugees of the First World War in Argentina and France in a comparative perspective. The Armenian case.” Workshop of the History Department of National Universities in Argentina, University of Cuyo, Mendoza. 6 October Hewsen, R. “Mesrop and Mekhitar” at the symposium 1650th Anniversary of the birth of Mesrop Mashtots‘. Woodbury University, Burbank, CA. 7 October Bertram, C. “Putting Historical Memory in its Place: Armenian Journeys to Turkey to Find the Houses and Villages of a Lost Ottoman Past.” U Texas, Austin. 10 October Suny, R. Keynote address “Советское и национальное: Единство противоречий.”Сталинизм и национальный вопрос. Institute of History, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine. 21 October Suny, R. “Affective Communities: Tensions and Ties Between the National and the Soviet in the USSR.” Schwoerer Lecture at Smith College.

22 – 23 October Suny, R. “Capitalism and the Common Good: What’s Left of Marx?” public lecture and seminar at Brown University. 22 October Peroomian, R. “Literary Responses to Armenian Genocide” for faculty and students of the Yerevan State University, Department of Archeology and Ethnography, Yerevan. 2 – 4 November Islamized Armenians Conference, sponsored by the Hrant Dink Foundation and held at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. -

Melkonian, A.J. “Gender and Survival Options during the Armenian Genocide.”

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Melkonian, D.K. “Taken into Muslim Households: Experiences of Armenian Children during the Genocide.”

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Peroomian, R. “Muslim Armenians, A Paradox?” was read on her behalf.

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Suny, R. chaired a panel.

Tchilingirian, H. “Constructing Reality: scholarship and policy on post-independence Caucasus.” Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs. 13 – 14 November Suny, R. “How the ‘West’ Understood (and Understands) the USSR.” Меняющееся восприятие России в США. Меняющееся восприятие США в России. 1933 – 2013. Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; chaired panel. 14 November Dadoyan, S. “Things Armenian Beyond the Pillars of Hercules.” Haigazian University Cultural Hour, Beirut, Lebanon. 15 November Sanjian, A. “Irredentism at the Crossroads of Nationalism, Communism and Diverging Interpretations of the Soviet Experience: The Armenian Diasporan Press on Mountainous Karabagh, 1923-1985.” presented in absentia at the panel “Karabagh: An Historical Perspective.” Armenian Studies Program, California State University, Fresno.

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20 November

Suny, R. “The Persistence of the Past: How Violence and Genocide in Ottoman Turkey Affect Our World Today,” keynote address at conference on States, Societies, and Reconciliation: Turkish-Armenian Relations in the Light of the French-German Experience on the 50th Anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, Istanbul Şehır Universitesi.

Kouymjian, D. “The Berlin Dragon-Phoenix Carpet and Its Probable Armenian Origin.” Armenian Knot: Traditions of Carpet Weaving. Armenian Ministry of Culture, Yerevan.

11 November Dadoyan, S. “The Arrow of Truth between the Historic Experience and Historical Writing [Čšmartut‘ean Slak‘ě Batmakan P‘orjin ew Batmagrut‘ean miĵew.” Aztag Lsaran, Beirut, Lebanon. 12 November 2013 Hofman, H. “Dressing the Part:  Textile Wealth in an Eleventh-Century Armenian Miniature and its Interpretative Meaning.” Zohrab Information Center, New York. Kouymjian, D. “Some Iconographical Questions about the Christ Cycle in Armenian Manuscripts and Early Printed Books.” Le Sacre Scritture e le loro interpretazioni. Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan.

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21 – 23 November Suny, R. was discussant on panels “Rethinking Antisemitism in Eastern Europe I: State, Society and the Jews” and “Imperial and Anti-Imperial Revolutions and the Russia’s City of the Early Twentieth Century” at the ASEEES convention, Boston. December Melkonian, A. J. and D.K. Melkonian. “Islamized Armenians: Taken into Muslim Households.” Armenian Assembly of America, Pasadena, CA. A lecture by the same name was given at the United Armenian Congregational Church, Men’s Fellowship, Los Angeles, and at Institute of Armenian Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in January 2014.

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4 December Suny, R. “Stalin and His Stalinism.” George Mason University. 5 December

auf die Deportationen und Massaker an den Armeniern.” Lepsiushaus, Potsdam. A lecture by the same name was given on 24 February at Leipzig University. 10 February

Suny, R. “Recent Research and Caucasus History.” Foreign Service Institute.

Redgate, A. E. “Portraits and Representations: Alfred of Wessex and Gagik of Vaspurakan: Progress and Prospects.” Mission Hills, California, USA, Ararat-Eskijian Museum.

10 December

14 February

Suny, R. “Explaining Genocide:  The Fate of the Armenians in the Late Ottoman Empire.” George Washington University.

Tchilingirian, H. “Imposed Realities and Uncertain Future: Armenian Diaspora Communities in Contemporary Middle East.” School of Divinity, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Divinity and the Henry Martin Centre.

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24 February

Suny, R. “Understanding Genocide, the Armenian Case: The Affective Disposition of the Perpetrators.” The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Peroomian, R. “A Journey through the Armenian Genocide Literature.” USC student Colloquium, Los Angeles.

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January

Suny, R. “Why Genocide? The Fate of the Armenians and Assyrians at the End of the Ottoman Empire.” Anna-Maria Kellen Lecture at the American Academy in Berlin.

Hovannisian, R. “The Last Phase of the Armenian Genocide: Smyrna, 1922.” Delivered at La Maison arménienne, Brussels; Abovian Society, Amsterdam; ANC of Providence; Chicago AGBU; Holy Translators Church, Framingham, MA between January and May.

8 March Demoyan, H. “Aurora Mardiganian; An Armenian Heroine Remembered.” Co-sponsored by the National Armenian Association for Armenian Research and Armenian International Women’s Association, in commemoration of the Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day.

31 January Suny, R. Public lecture and discussion with Cem Özdemir (Green Party deputy) “Schatten der Vergangenheit: die weltpolitischen Folgen des Völkermords ım Osmanischen Reich.” Literaturhaus Stuttgart. February Hovannisian, R. “Historic Western Armenia.” Delivered at AGBU, Almelo, Netherlands; AGBU, Sao Paulo, Brazil; St. Kevork Church, Houston between February and May. 3 February Suny, R. “The Persistence of the Past: Violence and Genocide in the Ottoman Empire and their Repercussions in Turkey Today.” Central European University, Budapest. 7 February

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Haroutyunian, S. “Translation and Representation of the Armenian Genocide in Literature and Film.”

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Hovannisian, R. “Remembering for the Future.”

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Melkonian, A.J. “Armenian Evangelical Clergy Responses to the Genocide.”

Suny, R. “Warum Genozid? Der Blick des Historikers

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Melkonian, D.K. “Crisis Within: Faith and the Armenian Genocide.”

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Peroomian, R. “The Symbiotic Relationship between Turks and Armenians, an Obstacle against Healing and Reconciliation.” She also chaired the panel on “The Denial of the Armenian Genocide.”

13 – 14 March Suny, R. “Legacies of Empire: Russia’s Empires: Thinking about Concepts.” National Research University, Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia. 20 – 21 March Bertram, C. “Journeys of the Descendants of Trauma: An Armenian Search for the Houses and Villages of a Lost Ottoman Past.” U Texas, Austin. Institute for Historical Studies’ conference on Trauma and History. 22 March Peroomian, R. “A selfless Dedication to the Cause of the Oppressed.” Ararat Eskijian Museum International Conference Honoring those who Helped Rescue a Generation of Armenian Survivors 1915-1930. 24 – 25 March Suny, R. “Razsekrechevanie: The Un-secreting of the Soviet Archives.” Birzeit University’s Digital Archive in an International Perspective – Toward a Chaotic Order, the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies, Birzeit University. 28 March Merian, S. “The Dissemination of Western European Prints Eastward: The Armenian Case.” Annual Meeting of The Renaissance Society of America. New York. Tchilingirian, H. “Native and Diasporic: Armenians and the Mediterranean.” The Mediterranean Other; The Other Mediterranean: Subaltern Perceptions, Interpretations and Representations. Rhur-Universitat Bochum, Centre for Mediterranean Studies. 31 March 2014 Hofman, H. “Repatriation and Deception: Post-WWII Soviet Armenia.” Armenian House in London, United Kingdom, Armenian Institute. A talk by the same name was given at Pembroke College, Oxford, United Kingdom on 28 March, sponsored by Armenian Societies of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and Zohrab

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Information Center in New York on 20 March. April Hewsen, R. “The Mekhitarist Influence on the Armenian Renaissance.” Holy Trinity Armenian Church, Fresno, CA. Hewsen, R. “Genocide Denial.” California State University, Sonoma, CA. Hovannisian, R. “Armenian Kesaria.” Delivered between April and June at CSUFresno; Ararat-Eskijian Museum; Armenian Library and Museum of America; Glendale Public Library. Melkonian, A.J. and D. K. Melkonian. “How Does the Process of Identity Formation Take Place at an Armenian Christian School?” Armenia and Diaspora 1918-2013: Fifth Annual International Graduate Student Workshop. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Melkonian, A. J. and D.K. Melkonian. “Crisis Within: The Faith of Armenian Genocide Survivors.” Armenian Genocide Commemoration Service of Southern California Armenian Evangelical Churches, Los Angeles. Melkonian, A. J. and D.K. Melkonian. “Islamized Armenians: Gender and Survival Options.” Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA. 4 April Dadoyan, S. “Technology and the Moving Target of Happiness.” St. Gregory, White Plains, NY. 9 to 11 April Boulgourdjian, N. and J. C. Toufeksian organized the International Conference of Armenian Genocide with the National University of Tres de Febrero, the Center for Genocide Studies, and the Fundación Memoria del Genocidio Armenio. Participants were from Argentina, Armenia, Brazil, Canada, France, Mexico, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States. 9 April Hovannisian, R. “So What Have We Learned?” Congreso Internacional sobre Genocidio Armenio, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires. Merian, S. “Dutch Woodcuts in Early Armenian Printed Books: A Book Detective Unravels the Mysteries.” New York, NY. Public lecture held at the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center, Armenian Diocese.

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9 – 11 April

29 April

Not All Quiet on the Ottoman Fronts: Neglected Perspectives on a Global War, 1914-1918. Istanbul Bilgi Universitesi.

Merian, S. “Protection Against the Evil Eye? Votive Offerings on Armenian Manuscript Bindings.” UCLA, Los Angeles. Invited speaker: 23rd History of the Book Lecture at the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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Suny, R. “Difference and Deportation: Strategy and Perception in the Young Turks’ Policies Toward Non-Muslims in World War I.”

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Anderson, M. L. Commentary on papers by Wolfgang Gust and Eric D. Weitz, on the session entitled: “Germany, Colonialism and the Armenian Genocide,” chaired by Taner Akçam.

21 – 22 April Peroomian, R. “Conflicting Factors at Work in Transcaucasia Facilitated the Continuation of the Turkish Genocide of Armenians before the End of WWI.” Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute International Conference on the Transcaucasian Battlefront During WWI. Yerevan.

5 May Hovannisian, R. “Raphael Lemkin, Elie Wiesel, and Armenian Memory.” Chapman University. 6 May Dadoyan, S. “Conceptualizing and De-Conceptualizing Things Armenian: A Historical Hermeneutics.” UCLA, Near East Studies Department. 7 May Suny, R. “Head-to-Head: Der Garten Der Dissidenten. Gedanken aus Amerika” with Jonathan Lethem, Literaturhaus Stuttgart.

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8 May

Bardakjian, K. B. “The Forty Years of the Society for Armenian Studies, 1974-2014.” The annual gathering of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan.

Dadoyan, S. “The Armenian Historical Experience: The Impasse and the Discourse.” ARPA (Analysis Research and Planning for Armenia), LA.

22 April

Suny, R. “War and Genocide: The Fate of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.” Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte, University of Göttingen.

Suny, R. “Explaining Genocide: Historians and the Fate of the Armenians in the Late Ottoman Empire.” Institut für Geschictswissenschaften Geschichte Oszeuropas, Humboldt University, Berlin. A lecture by the same name was presented at Center for the History of Emotions, MaxPlanck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin on 29 April. 23 April Peroomian, R. “A Journey through the Armenian Genocide Literature.” Special Commemoration Lecture. American University of Armenia. Yerevan. 24 April Peroomian, R. Armenian State TV interview and discussion of the importance of Genocide Education in Armenian schools in Armenia and the Diaspora.

9 May Dadoyan, S. “New Historiography for New Armenosensia [Nor Batmagitut‘iwn I Xndir Nor Hayazgac‘ut‘ean].” Abril Bookstore, Glendale, LA. 14 May Hovannisian, R. “Significance of the Lebanese-Armenian Community for the Armenian Diaspora.” Haigazian University, Beirut. 17 May Hovannisian, R. “Humble Heroes.” Armenian Weekly E-book Launch, Chicago.

28 April Tchilingirian, H. “Christians in Syria and Iraq Today: Facing the Challenges.” School of Oriental and African Studies, Centre of World Christianity, University of London.

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18 May

25 June

Tchilingirian, H. “Living with Injustice and Denial: Turkish-Armenian relations on the threshold of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.” Global Conflict and Conflict Management: Israel/Palestine and Beyond. St. Anne’s College, Middle East Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford.

Haroutyunian, S. “Tradurre la memoria: il Genocidio degli Armeni.” Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

26 May Giorgi A. and Haroutyunian, S. “V2 and V3 in Modern Eastern Armenian.” GLOW-in-Asia X, National Tsing Hua University di Taiwan. 27 May Suny, R. “War and Genocide: The Fate of the Armenians and Assyrians, 1912-1922.” Freie Universität, Berlin. A paper by the same name was presented at a conference The Long Global Crisis, c. 1912-c.1922 on 2 June at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. 5 June Suny, R. “War and Genocide: Armenians, Assyrians, and the Caucasian Front.” Le front caucasien de la Grande Guerre. Collège de France, Paris. 7 June The Armenian Genocide and the Armenian Woman, organized by the Joint Committee of Los Angeles for the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide. -

Moumdjian, G. K. “Armenian Women in Post Genocide Environment: From a Patriarchal to a Matriarchal Society.”

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Peroomian, R. “Armenian Women through the Hell of the Genocide.”

26 June Tchilingirian, H. “2015 in Turkey-Armenia Relations: Thaw or Freeze?” Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs. 11 – 14 September Giorgi A. and Haroutyunian S. “Topic, Focus and V2 in Modern Eastern Armenian.” 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. 21 September Kouymjian, D. “Khatchk‘ars et miniature d’Artsakh.” Armenian Embassy, Paris. 3 – 5 October Kouymjian, D. “Eighteenth Century Printing in Constantinople: The Role of Grigor Marzvanec‘i,” SAS conference, Yerevan. 9 – 11 October Kouymjian, D. Keynote Address, Association internationale des études arméniennes, Matenadaran, Yerevan. 6 November Bertram, C. “The Irony of ‘Homecomings’: Armenian Journeys of Return to Anatolia.”  University of California, Berkeley. CMES Interdisciplinary Lecture Series. 2015

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23 – 24 January

Suny, R. “Explaining Genocide: The Fate of the Armenians and Assyrians at the End of the Ottoman Empire.” EmekTar Labor Historians Group, Istanbul Universitesi.

Haroutyunian, S. “Translation dynamics between preservation and appropriation: cases from Armenian, Italian and English.” UC Santa Barbara.

24 June Hovannisian, R. “The Armenian Genocide.” Facing History and Ourselves. Teacher Institute, Burbank, CA.

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2014 MESA PANELS

CONFERENCES AND CALL FOR PAPERS

(Please consult the MESA online program for a complete listing of panels: https://mymesa.arizona.edu/meeting_program.php?program_bookyr=2012)

100th Anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide

Syrian Armenians in the Crossfire: The Syrian Uprising and the Future of a Shrinking Minority

Sts. Sahag and Mesrob Armenian Church, Wynnewood, PA

Monday, November 24, 2014- 5:00pm Co-sponsors: Syrian Studies Association (SSA) and Society of Armenian Studies (SAS) Chair: Bedross Der Matossian Discussant: Elyse Semerdjian Geukjian, O. “The Syrian Armenian Diaspora and Conflict: Analyzing Patterns of Influence” Payaslian, S. “The Armenian Community in Syria: the End of an Ethno-Religious Community.” Watenpaugh, K. “Between Armenian Refugee and Syrian Citizen: The Colonial Origins of Syria’s Contemporary Sectarianism.” The Armenian Genocide Sunday, November 23, 2014- 11:00am Desai, S. “Just Keep the Sheep Thieves Away: Minority Challenges to Iraqi Nation-State Building, 1933-1945.” Helicke, J. “Turkey’s First Human Rights Movement: Minorities, Multiparty Politics and the Cold War, 1945-1955.” Hopkins, R. “Assyrians in Hashemite Iraq: Mass Violence as State-Building.” Melkonian, A. “Gender-Based Survival Options during the Armenian Genocide.” Melkonian, D. “The Plight of Armenian Genocide Orphans in Muslim Homes.”

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April 10 – April 12, 2015

Sts. Sahag and Mesrob Armenian Church in Wynnewood, PA, seeks to commemorate the 100th anniverary of the onset of the Armenian Genocide with a multi-faceted symposium that appeals to all segments of the Armenian communities in Philadelphia. The planning committee therefore invites submissions from members of the Society for Armenian Studies for consideration. The symposium’s theme, ‘We Not Only Survived, We Thrived,’ permits us the space to discuss all facets of the Genocide and its effects on Armenians and the world. Whether we consider aspects of language, literature, history, art, politics, family life, or any other aspect of culture, the Genocide had far-reaching effects on it all. Therefore, papers and panels addressing any aspect of the Genocide are invited for submission. However, preference will be given to themes/presentations that have a broad appeal, especially to the lay community. Submission Information: To speed both review and planning procedures, only completed papers and program proposals can be accepted. Further, only electronic submissions will be accepted unless prior arrangements have been made with the program planners. Submissions of complete papers should include two files: one with the name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address of each author and the second containing the main body of the paper and an abstract of 150 words or less. All author identifiers should be removed from the second file. If the author has never presented at a professional conference or is a graduate student, the words “Debut Paper” or “Student Paper,” respectively, should be prominently displayed in the first file. If the paper is co-authored, please indicate which author(s) will be presenting. Proposals for panels should include two files: one listing the names, affiliations, mailing addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses of all participants, including any chair(s) or respondent(s), and one listing a thematic title for the program as well as titles and abstracts for each presentation. Please also include a rationale for the panel and one page of copy, including a 75-word description, as it should

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appear in the final printed conference program. All submissions should include the following statement. Failure to include this statement will result in an automatic rejection of the submission: In submitting the attached (paper/proposal), I/we recognize that this submission is considered a professional responsibility. I/We agree to present said (paper/program) if it is accepted and programmed. Equipment requests should be kept to an absolute minimum, as rental prices tend to run high and we do not wish to create an undue financial burden for the church. Please consult the conference planners listed below for more information. Deadline for Submissions: All submissions must be received by Friday, October 31, 2014. Submitters of papers and panels selected for presentation will be notified by December 1, 2014. E-mail attachments must be in Word, PDF or RTF formats only or they will not be considered. Direct all materials and inquiries to: Alfred G. Mueller II, Ph.D. at [email protected] or (717) 360-3766 or Lusine K. Mueller, Ph.D. at [email protected] or (717) 360-9094.

The Society for Armenian Studies: 40th Anniversary Workshop in Yerevan

ecclesiastical administration, relations between the Armenian hierarchies and the roles they played, ‘political’ and otherwise; the appearance of groups of self-made laymen (e.g. chelebis, khojas, amiras, etc.) and their role in Armenian realities; the Latinizing missions and the Armenian Church; voluntary and involuntary demographic changes; relations between western (those of the Ottoman Empire) and eastern (those of Persia) halves of the Armenian people are only some of the social-cultural themes that fall under this heading. 2. Reflections and echoes of the Armenian Genocide in the arts and culture in general, whether Armenian or, particularly, non-Armenian. 3. Testimonies and reminiscences of survivors of the Armenian Genocide. 4. Armenian historiography in the past 30 years: accomplishments, new perspectives and methodologies. 5. Armenian literary studies in the past 30 years: accomplishments, new perspectives and methodologies. 6. The Armenian Diaspora in the 21st century: concerns and challenges, aspirations and perspectives. 7. Digitization and the future of Armenian studies.

3-5 October 2014 The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) is pleased to announce the first of its periodic workshops to mark the 40th anniversary of its founding. The workshop will be held in Yerevan, 3-5 October 2014. A generous grant from the Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation will provide for travel and lodging assistance. Participation is limited to twenty papers from abroad and twenty from Armenia. The conference will have the following themes: 1. Inadequately studied periods in Armenian history from about the rise of Cilicia to the end of the 18th century or the annexation of the Khanate of Erivan by Russia in 1828. The expansion of the Armenian ‘Bishopric’ of Constantinople into a universal patriarchate for the Western Armenians; the emergence of urban communities in towns to the west of historic Armenia; the nature and structure of Armenian

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Third International Graduate Students’ Conference on Genocide Studies: The State of Research 100 Years after the Armenian Genocide April 9-12, 2015 The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University will host the Third International Graduate Students’ Conference on “Genocide Studies: The State of Research 100 Years after the Armenian Genocide” on 9-12 April 2015, in cooperation with the Danish Institute for International Studies, Department of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Copenhagen. The conference will provide a forum for doctoral students to present their research projects to peers and established scholars. The keynote speaker will be Professor Eric Weitz, Dean of Humanities and Arts and Professor of History at the City College of New York.

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The conference will include discussion and comments from senior genocide scholars. Papers that put the Armenian Genocide in a broader perspective and examine the concept of Ottoman Genocide carried out against minority ethnic-religious groups, including Assyrians and Greeks, are especially encouraged. Topics may include forceful mass–deportations, expulsions, and massacres during the late Ottoman period. We also invite pertinent applications from students working on the Holocaust as well as those who focus on genocides in Africa, Asia, Australia, and America as well as on the aftermath and collective memorialization of genocides. Paper proposals from graduate students and recent postdocs (since 2012) across all disciplines are invited. The costs of travel, accommodation, registration, and meals will be covered for applicants whose papers are accepted. Interested applicants should submit for consideration: 1) a short curriculum vitae (one page max.) including name, address, email, and telephone number; 2) the title and an abstract of your paper (approx. 300 words, one page max. in English), addressing its basic arguments, its sources, and its relation to your dissertation project (for instance: summary, proposal, or chapter of the dissertation); and 3) a brief letter from your advisor indicating your enrollment in a doctoral program. The final deadline is August 15, 2014. Please email materials to [email protected]. Crossing the Centennial: The Historiography of the Armenian Genocide Re-Evaluated 19-20 March, 2015 University of Nebraska-Lincoln The year 2015 marks the centenary of the Armenian genocide. On this occasion, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is organizing a two-day conference that will examine the latest developments in the historiography of the Armenian genocide. The conference that will take place on March 1920, 2015, is co-sponsored by the Harris Center for Judaic Studies, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), and the Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) in cooperation with the Department of History and the Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Program at UNL. We invite abstract submissions before the deadline of 1 August 2014. The travel and accommodation expenses of accepted participants will be covered. It is the inten-

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tion to publish the conference proceedings in an edited volume. For more information on the conference themes and submission process, please visit http://societyforarmenianstudies.com/2014/05/14/call-for-abstracts-crossing-thecentennial-the-historiography-of-the-armenian-genocide-reevaluated/

RECENT PUBLICATIONS Anderson, M. L. “Anatomy of an Election: Anti-Catholicism, Antisemitism, and Social Conflict in the Era of Reichsgründung and Kulturkampf.” Von Freiheit Solidarität und Subsidiarität – Staat und Gesellschaft der Moderne in Theorie und Praxis. Festschrift für Karsten Ruppert zum 65. Geburtstag. M. Raasch and T. Hirschmüller (eds) Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2013. 39 – 95. ---. “Confessions of a Fellow Traveler.” Catholic Historical Review 99/4 (October 2013). 622-48. ---. “Helden in Zeiten eines Völkermords? Armin T. Wegner, Ernst Jäckh, Henry Morgenthau.” Johannes Lepsius – Eine deutsche Ausnahme. Der Völkermord an den Armeniern, Humanitarismus und Menschenrechte. R. Hosfeld (ed). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2013. 126 – 71. ---. “Shooting an Elephant.” Journal of Genocide Research 13/4 (2013). 424-32, in Review Forum: Taner Akçam, The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in Anatolia. Andrews, T. L. and C. Macé. “Trees of Texts: Models and methods for an updated theory of medieval text stemmatology.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 28.4 (2013). 504-21. Andrews, T. L. “Identity, Philosophy and the Problem of Armenian History in the Sixth Century.” History and Identity in the Late Antique Near East. P. Wood (ed). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 29-41. Bardakjian, K. B. Modern Ermeni Edebiyatı. Trans. Fatma Ünal and Maral Aktokmakyan. Istanbul: Aras Publications, 2013.

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Bardakjian, K. B. and Sergio La Porta, eds. The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition: A Comparative Perspective. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

Der Mugrdechian, B. and D. Kouymjian (eds) David of Sassoun: Studies on the Armenian Epic. Fresno: Press at California State University Fresno, 2013.

Bertram, C. “Images of Place: The Legacy of the Ottoman House in Modern Turkey.” The Middle East in the World: An Introduction. L. Volk and M.E. Sharpe (eds). Foundations in Global Studies: The Regional Landscape, 2014.

Ghazarians, A. (ed). The Memoirs of Roustam: Napoleon’s Imperial Bodyguard. London, UK: Bennett & Bloom, 2014.

Boudakian, M. “Indispensible Papazian ‘Triumvirate’ from Gesaria.” Armenian Mirror-Spectator LXXXIV. No. 34, Issue 4328 (15 March 2014). Boulgourdjian, N. “Convergencias y divergencias en vínculos dinámicos y complejos de un ‘pueblo en diáspora’. El caso de la diáspora armenia de Buenos Aires.” La complejidad después de Babel. Diásporas, culturas, transnacionalización. B. Gurevich (ed). Buenos Aires: Lumiere. Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano Marshall T. Meyer, 2013. 221-236. ---. “Rol de las redes asociativas y los vínculos con la ‘madre patria’ en la conformación y la permanencia de la diáspora armenia en la Argentina.” Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 24 (2013). 7-34. Cox, C. “The Armenian Bible: Status Quaestionis.”Armenian Philology in the Modern Era. From Manuscript to Digital Text. V. Calzolari (ed) with M. E. Stone. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2014. 231–46. Dadoyan, S. The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World- Paradigms of Interaction Vol. 3: Medieval Cosmopolitanism and Images of Islam -Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries. New Brunswick / London: Transaction Publishers, 2013. Darbinyan, A. and R. Peroomian. “Children: The Most Vulnerable Victims of the Armenian Genocide.” Plight and Fate of Children During and Following Genocide. Samuel Totten (ed). New Brunswick, USA and London, UK: Transaction Publishers, 2014. 57-83. Deranian, H. M. President Calvin Coolidge and the Armenian Orphan Rug. Arlington, MA: Armenian Cultural Foundation, 2013; second edition, May 2014; German translation published by Hans Schiler Verlag, (2014) under the auspices of the Armenian Cultural Foundation.

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---. The Armenian Review: A Bibliography & Index (19482008). Yerevan: National Library of Armenia, 2014. Giorgi, A. & S. Haroutyunian. “On the temporal and aspectual value of Modern Eastern Armenian aorist: A comparative perspective.” Armenian Folia Anglistika (2014). Haroutyunian, S. “Antonia Arslan.” ABC-CLIO on the Armenian Genocide. ---. “Skylark Farm, Novel & Film.” ABC-CLIO on the Armenian Genocide. Hovannisian, R. (ed). Armenian Kesaria/Kayseri and Cappadocia. Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2013. Kasbarian, L. “Children’s Author Shares Her Armenian Culture Through Stories.” Kid World Citizen. April 2014. ---. “Destination 2015” editorial cartoon. The Levant Report. March 31, 2014. ---. “Did the Armenian Writer’s Conference Walk the Talk?” The Armenian Weekly 79/31 (2013). ---. “An Embassy at a Book Fair.” Publishing Perspectives. April 25, 2014. ---. “Teaching Hope in Sisian, Armenia.” Skipping Stones 26/2 (2014). ---. “Walking a Mile in their Shoes.” Armenian MirrorSpectator 83/47 (2013). ---. “Women Exploited: Author Zanoyan Spotlights Sex Trafficking in Armenia.” The Armenian MirrorSpectator 83/35 (2013). Ketendjian, K. (trans) and Robert H. Hewsen (ed). Archbishop Sergius Hasan-Jalaliants. A History of the Land of Artsakh (Karabagh and Ganje, 1722-1827), Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publications, 2013.

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Kouymjian, D. “The Archaeology of the Armenian Manuscript: Codicology, Paleography and Beyond.” Armenian Philology in the Modern Era: From Manuscript to Digital Text. V. Calzolari (ed) with the collaboration of M. Stone. Leiden: Brill, 2014. 5-22. ---. “Between Amsterdam and Constantinople: The Impact of Printing on Armenian Culture.” Die Kunst der Armenier im östlichen Europa. M. Dmitrieva and B. Kovacs (eds). Köln-Weimar-Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2014. 19-26, pls. 1-2. ---. “Chinese Dragons and Phoenixes among the Armenians.” Civilizational Contribution of Armenia in the History of the Silk Road. Yerevan: Institute of History, Armenian Academy of Sciences, 2013. 227-253. ---. “A Critical Bibliography for the Study of David of Sassoun.” David of Sassoun: Studies on the Armenian Epic. D. Kouymjian and B. Der Mugrdechian (eds). Fresno: Press at California State University Fresno, 2013. 183-194. ---. “The History and Enigma of the Armenian Epic.” David of Sassoun: Studies on the Armenian Epic. D. Kouymjian and B. Der Mugrdechian (eds). Fresno: Press at California State University Fresno, 2013. 1-20. ---. Letter and short note on a previous unpublished painting of Kazaz Artin Bezjian Amira of 1880 by Simeon Yaghrdjian, Surp Pirgiç, Istanbul, no. 13 (May-August 2013). 46-47. ---. “The Melitene Group of Armenian Miniature Painting in the Eleventh Century.” Armenian Kesaria/ Kayseri and Cappadocia. R. Hovannisian (ed). Costa Mesa: Mazda, 2014. 79-115. ---. “Nina G. Garsoïan: A Professor Who Incubated Scholars, a Scholar Who Vitalized an Historical Era.” Journal of Armenian Studies X nos. 1-2 (20122013). 145-152. ---. “Notes on Armenian Codicology. Part 2. Armenian Palaeography: Dating the Major Scripts.” Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter 6 (July 2013). 22-28. ---. “Préface.” Haroutioun Khatchatrian and Michel Basmadjian. Xač‘k‘ar, L’art des pierres-croix arméniennes d’Isfahan et de Jérusalem. Paris: Geuthner, 2014. v-viii.

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---. “Sasna tsrer: The Newly Discovered Sanam Stenian California Variant David of Sassoun: Studies on the Armenian Epic. D. Kouymjian and B. Der Mugrdechian (eds). Fresno: Press at California State University Fresno, 2013. 35-38. ---. “Sasounts‘i Davit‘: Synopsis of the Official Version of the Armenian Epic.” David of Sassoun: Studies on the Armenian Epic. D. Kouymjian and B. Der Mugrdechian (eds). Fresno: Press at California State University Fresno, 2013. 21-33. ---. “Serguei Paradjanov. La tétralogie qui manquait.” review of a four DVD set, Montparnasse Classiques, Nouvelles d’Arménie magazine 196 (May, 2013). 78. ---. “Vézelay, the Arabs, and the Armenians.” La Méditerranée des Arméniens, XIIe - XVe siècle. Paris: Guethner, 2014. 377-390, color pls. Manoukian, J. “Armenité refoulée: les premiers écrits de Zabel Yessayan (1895-1900).” Haigazian Armenological Review 33 (2013). Manuk-Khaloyan, A. “In the Cemetery of their Ancestors: The Royal Burial Tombs of the Bagratuni Kings of Greater Armenia (890-1073/79).” Revue des Études Arméniennes 35 (2013). 131 – 202. Merian, S. “The Armenian Silversmiths of Kesaria/Kayseri in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.” Armenian Kesaria/Kayseri and Cappadocia. R. G. Hovannisian (ed). Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2013. 117-185. ---. “Illuminating the Apocalypse in Seventeenth-Century Armenian Manuscripts: The Transition from Printed Book to Manuscript.” The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition: A Comparative Perspective. K. B. Bardakjian and S. La Porta (eds). Leiden: Brill, 2014. 603-639. Mirak, R. Genocide Survivors, Community Builders: The Family of John and Artemis Mirak. Arlington, Massachusetts: Armenian Cultural Foundation, 2014. Mirak-Weissback, M. and J. Wakim. Turkish Foreign Policy under the AKP Government since 2002 (in Arabic). Beirut: All-Prints Distributors & Publisher, 2013.

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Moumdjian, G. K. “Rebels with a Cause: Armenian Macedonian Relations and Their Bulgarian Connection, 1890–1913.” War and Nationalism: The Balkan Wars, 1912–1913, and Their Sociopolitical Implications. I. Blumi & H. Yavuz (eds). Univ. of Utah Press, 2013. Ohanian, D. and R. Sarkissian. “Canadian Upstanders in the Ottoman Empire.” Toronto: Sara Corning Centre for Genocide Education, 2014. Ohanian, D. “These Questions Need Answering.” Lradou (April 2014), 8. Peroomian, R. “The Poetics of Violence in Literary Responses to the Adana Massacres.” Theghaspanakan handes 1 (2013). 105-117. Redgate, A. E. Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 800-1066. Routledge, 2014. Reza, E. Azerbaijan and Aran (Caucasian Albania). Edited with annotated Translation by Ara Ghazarians. London: Bennett & Bloom, 2014. Sanjian, A. “Erdogan’s Condolences: Too Little, Too Late within a Steadily Changing Context.” E-International Relations (8 May 2014). Suny, R. Review of Liliana Riga, The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), in American Journal of Sociology, CXIX 119, 3 (November 2013). 863-865. ---. The Structure of Soviet History: Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Successor States in the Twentieth Century. Second, revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003; 2013. ---. “‘A Tempest in a Glass of Water:’ Stalin the Underground Revolutionary and the Conflicts within Bolshevism.” Journal for the History of Social Movements/Zeitschrift fűr Geschichte sozialer Bewegnunger, special issue on “Lives on the Left: Biography and the European Workers Movements” (2013). ---. “Völkermord in Armenien: Die Türkei muss sich mit ihrer Geschichte abfinden.” Die Zeit Online, (April 28, 2014).

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---. “The Young Stalin and the Revolution of 1905 in Georgian.” The Making of Modern Georgia, 1918-2012: The First Georgian Republic and its Successors. S. F. Jones (ed). London and New York: Routledge, 2014. 287-315. ---. «Предисловие,» Екатерина Джугашвили, Мои сын Иосиф Сталин (2013). 3-14. Tchilingirian, H. “The Armenian Apostolic Church.” Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twenty-First Century. L. Leustean (ed). London and New York: Routledge, 2014. Toufesian, J. C. En el Centenario de la Primera Guerra mundial. Voluntarios armenios de Argentina y Uruguay en la Legión de Oriente. Legión Armenia. Buenos Aires: Fundación Memoria del Genocidio armenio, 2014. Yessayan, Z. The Gardens of Silihdar. trans. Jennifer Manoukian. Armenian International Women’s Association Press, 2014. ---. My Soul in Exile and Other Writings. trans. G.M. Goshgarian, Jennifer Manoukian and Nanore Barsoumian. Armenian International Women’s Association Press, 2014.

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS Andrews, T. “Digital Techniques for Critical Edition.” Armenian Philology in the Modern Era: From Manuscript to Digital Text. V. Calzolari and M. E. Stone (eds). Leiden: Brill. Forthcoming. Dadoyan, S. The Armenian Catholicosate — History, Treasures, Mission (A Centenary publication). Antelias Lebanon: Catholicosate Publications, 2014. Haroutyunian, S. “Armenian Genocide and Translation.” Translating memory across cultures and disciplines. B. Brodzki and C. Demaria (eds). 2015. ---. “L’eredità culturale di Giacomo Leopardi in Armenia.” L’eredità culturale di Giacomo Leopardi nell’Europa centro-orientale. M. Sabatini and V.Tomellieri (eds). Peter Lang, Il secolo lungo, 2015.

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---. “Testimonies of Women Survivors of the Armenian Genocide Through Historical Narrative.” Women and Genocide: An Anthology. J. DiGeorgio Lutz and D. Gosbeeour (eds). Canadian Scholars’ Press/Women’s Press, 2015.    Hovannisian, R. G. and A. Manuk-Khaloyan. “The Armenian Communities of Asia Minor: A Pictorial Essay.”Armenian Communities of Asia Minor. R. G. Hovannisian (ed). Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2014. Kivelson, V and R. Suny. Russia’s Empires. Oxford University Press, Spring 2016. Kouymjian, D. “The Berlin Dragon-Phoenix Carpet and Its Probable Armenian Origin.” Armenian Knot Conference, Proceedings. ---. “Christian Iconographic Motifs in the Armenian Alexander Romance.” Jos Weitenberg Festschrift. Louvain: Peeters, in press. ---. “Some Iconographical Questions about the Christ Cycle in Armenian Manuscripts and Early Printed Books.” Analecta Ambrosiana. Milan, forthcoming. ---. “William Saroyan, the Memorialist.” Pacific Journal, forthcoming. Merian, S. Catalogue entry on two fourteenth-century Armenian leaves, in Catalogue of the European Paintings in the Berenson Collection. C. Brandon Strehlke and M. Israëls (eds). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, Villa I Tatti. Forthcoming 2014/2015. Mirak-Weissback, M. “Herrschen bis der Frühling kommt.” Frankfurt am Main: Größenwahn Verlag, September 2014. Moumdjian, G. K. “The Eastern Vilayets 1909-1914: ARF Young Turk Collusion, Kurdish Menace, and Russian Stratagems.” War and End of Empire: The Ottoman Empire and WWI. F. Ahmad and H. Yavuz (eds). Univ. of Utah Press, 2015. Redgate, A. E. “Armenia, Kingdom of (C4th BC-AD5th”) and (“Urartu, Kingdom of”), The Encyclopedia of Empire. J. M. MacKenzie and N. Dalziel (eds). Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. Suny, R. The Armenian Genocide. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Spring 2015.

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---. Red Flag Unfurled: Historians and the Soviet Union (historiographical essays). Verso Books, Spring 2017. ---. Stalin, From Koba to Commissar. New York: Oxford University Press, Fall 2016. Tchilingirian, H. “Minority within Minorities: Armenian communities in the Middle East between imposed realities and uncertain future.” Religious Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa: A Complete Survey of Non-Muslim Communities. E.C.D. Hunter (ed). London: I. B. Tauris, October 2014.

MEMBER ACCOMPLISHMENTS Antaramian, H. (artist and independent scholar) continues her current art and ethnographic project on the post-WWII repatriates to Soviet Armenia. In 2014, she held two international presentations of her illustrated talk on the subject. The first was at the Armenian House, sponsored by the Armenian Institute in London, and the second was in Oxford at Pembroke College, sponsored by the Armenian Societies of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. In November 2013, she held her second lecture in New York, sponsored by the Zohrab Center. Her artwork was recently shown at a Jack Rutberg juried show at the Brand Library and Art Center in Glendale, California. In March 2014, Antaramian was accepted as a new artist member at Fig Tree Gallery in Fresno, California. Her first solo exhibition at the gallery, / ˈaltər/ pieces: degrees of sacrifice, will be held in January 2015. Beginning Fall 2014, Antaramian will be teaching art appreciation at Fresno City College, in the Fine, Performing and Communication Arts Division, as an adjunct instructor. In May 2014, shortly after having completed her fifth year on the College Art Association Committee for Students and Emerging Professionals, she was selected to serve a three-year term on the NAASR Board. In May 2015, as part of Fresno’s 100-year Armenian Genocide commemoration, she will exhibit her art and photographs in the lobby of the John Wright Theatre at Fresno State University during the debut of a new theatrical production on the repatriate story, commissioned by the University Theatre in conjunction with the Armenian Studies Program. Firkatian, M. (University of Hartford) will participate in a NEH Summer Seminar at Georgetown University on World War I and the Middle East during the summer of 2014.

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Haroutyunian, S. (Ca’Foscari University of Venice) is currently the language expert for Eastern Armenian in the Online Research project “Syntactic Structures of the World’s Languages,” http://sswl.railsplayground.net/ at UCLA. From 2013-2014, she worked on a research project “Riflessioni sulla sintassi della lingua armena orientale” at the Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e culturali comparati. She also recently received two conference grants, one from Society for Armenian Studies, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for 44th Annual Scholars’ Conference on Remembering For The Future: Armenia, Auschwitz And Beyond at American Jewish University, Los Angeles on 8-11 March and the other from Ca’Foscari University of Venice for V2 and V3 in Modern Eastern Armenian, GLOW-in-Asia X, National Tsing Hua University di Taiwan, on 26 May 2014.

Peroomian, Rubina (UCLA) was appointed a member of the Armenian Language Revitalization Committee, under the auspices of the Western Prelacy in July, 2013. She was also appointed member of Genocide Education Subcommittee of the Armenian National Committee of America, Western Region, in February, 2014.

Kouymjian, Dickran (Haig & Isabel Berberian Professor of Armenian Studies, Emeritus, California State University, Fresno) was elected member of the Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan on 11 November 2013. President Bako Sahakian presented him with a Medal of Outstanding Service to the Republic of Artsakh at a dinner of the Friends of Artsakh in Paris on 12 October 2013.

The University of Michigan Department of History announces an open search for a tenure-track position to fill the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History.

Ohanessian, Hagop (California State University, Fresno) recently graduated from California State University, Fresno on 16 May 16 2014 with a Masters Degree in History. His culminating experience consisted of writing a thesis, Armenian Relief Society (ARS): A Case Study of ArmenianAmerican Women in the Twentieth Century under the oversight of Dr. Jill Fields (History), Dr. Blain Roberts (History) and Professor Barlow Der Mugrdechian (Armenian Studies). Ohanian, Daniel (York University and Istanbul Bilgi University) was accepted into the MA program and became a research assistant in Istanbul Bilgi University’s history department. Papazian, Dennis R. (Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan Dearborn) was granted an honorary doctorate from Yerevan State Pedagogical University. Papazian, Mary (Southern Connecticut State University) was appointed president of Southern Connecticut State University and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Yerevan State Pedagogical University.

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Takooshian, Harold (Fordham University) served as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Russia in 2013 – 2014. In April of 2014, he received the 2014 Quiet Hero Award from Heroic Imagination Project (HIP) Founder Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History

The Alex Manoogian Chair is an endowed chair established for the purpose of teaching courses in Armenian history, politics and culture, and creating a locus of Armenian historical studies at the University of Michigan. UM’s Department of History seeks a dynamic colleague with a sound record of both scholarly achievement and successful teaching that covers the full range of Armenian history, with emphasis on the modern (since the 18th century) period, and the relationship of that history to the wider region and the larger issues of world history. The holder of this position is also expected to play a central role in the Armenian Studies Program, an endowed program housed in the International Institute. We welcome applications from scholars in a position to contribute to a tradition of academic excellence and intellectual distinction at UM’s Department of History. To ensure full consideration, materials must be received by November 1, 2014. Please send: a letter of interest, a career summary, a C.V., a statement of current and future research plans, a statement of teaching philosophy and experience, evidence of teaching excellence, the names of three available referees, and any other supporting material you wish to Prof. Kathleen Canning, Chair, History Department, 1029 Tisch Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003; telephone 734-763-2289; fax 734-647-4881 or by email to [email protected].

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Women and minority scholars are encouraged to apply, and the university is supportive of the needs of dual-career couples. The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

RELATED NEWS Armenian Cultural Foundation, Arlington, Massachusetts announces that Phase V of the Armenian Periodicals Microfilming Project was released last month. This comprises 21 reels including Nayiri (Beirut) vol. 2-25 (1953-54 to 198083); P’aros (Cairo, Egypt) vol. 2 (1901); Azat Bem (Alexandria, Egypt) vol. 1-3 (1903-1904); Arew (Alexandria, Egypt) vol. 1 (1908); and Azat Mitk’ (Cairo, Egypt) vol. 1, (193637). Since the launching of this project in 2002, the Foundation has microfilmed over 29 titles covering a span of over a century (1878-1990), a total of 150 reels all of which are available for purchase in sets or individual reels. Dr. Herand Markarian and editors Dr. Raffi Setian, Iris Papazian and Tom Vartabedian have put out a call for submissions of Armenian Genocide survivor testimonies and/or remembrances by descendants, to be published in several volumes. Those wishing to submit an account of their family’s experience in the Genocide may send manuscripts to Dr. Herand Markarian, Libra-6 Productions, Inc., 160 Waters Edge, Congers, NY 10920, or e-mail [email protected] and [email protected]. For further details, consult: http://www.armenianweekly. com/2013/04/04/herand-markarians-newest-project-a-gem/

NEW MEMBERS Student members Vahe Sahakyan, Diaspora Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Mari Hovhannisyan, Genocide studies, Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Yerevan Stephen Riegg, Russo-Armenian relations, Armenian nationalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Regular members Talin Suciyan, Armenian history, Ottoman history, LMU Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies

FROM THE EDITORS All contributions to the SAS newsletter must be submitted according to the guidelines on our submission form. Please spellcheck and proofread all submissions. Due to space restrictions and editorial policies, we do not publish most press releases. In an effort to keep news timely, this newsletter covers Fall 2013 - Summer 2014. The next newsletter will cover Fall 2014. Finally, we wish to note that it has been an honor serving as the editors of the Society for Armenian Studies’ newsletter for the past four years. We wish the new editors of the newsletter the best of luck in the coming year, and we extend a warm thanks to all SAS members who submitted to the newsletter during our editorial term. In particular, we wish to thank Barlow Der Mugrdechian, whose indefatigable assistance, generosity, and keen editorial eye have made this newsletter possible. For further information, please email the editors: Alison Vacca at [email protected] or Michael Pifer at [email protected]. Thank you!

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