January 18, 2008
Armenian Studies Program Scheduled Events
MAY 2008
Annual Holocaust-Armenian Genocide Commemoration
Public Lecture
Co-sponsored by The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive and The Armenian Research Center at UM-Dearborn and The Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at Wayne State University
“Child Survivors of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide”
May 2, 2008
9:30 - 12:00 PM, McGregor Memorial Conference Center,
495 Ferry Mall, Wayne State University
Georgia: The Making of a National Culture
An International Conference in the series “Armenia and its Neighbors”
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
May 15-18, 2008
Thursday, May 15
7:30 – 9:30 Opening Reception
Friday, May 16
9:00 – 12:00 – Christian Georgia: Culture and Identity in the Middle Ages and Early
Modern Period.
Chair: Kevork Bardakjian (University of Michigan).
Stephen H. Rapp, Jr. (Georgia State University): “The Land of Heroes and
Giants’: Recovering the Iranian Heritage of Medieval Georgia.”
Armen Kazaryan (Erevan State University): “Early Medieval Architecture in
Georgia: Its Historiography and its Place in East-Christian Tradition.”
Tamila Mgaloblishvili (Center for Exploration of Georgian Antiquities): “Georgians in
the Holy Land.”
Dean Sakel (Bogazici University): “Eighteenth-Century Reflections of Moves Towards a
Georgian National Consciousness: The Element of Historiography.”
1:00 – 4:00 – The Emergence of Modern Georgian Nationalism.
Chair: Ronald Grigor Suny (University of Michigan).
Hirotake Maeda (Hokaido): “Identity in Aleksandre Orbeliani (1802-1869).”
Paul Manning (Trent University): “Georgians, that is, Readers of droeba.”
David Khoshtaria (National Research Center for Georgian Art History): “Tbilisi in the
Nineteenth Century: Cultural Diversity and Urban Identity.”
Oliver Reisner (Delegation of the European Commission to Georgia): "The
Beginnings of Georgian National Historiography: Ivane Javakhishvili's kartveli eris istoria."
Saturday, May 17
9:00 – 12:00 – Diversity and Unity in the South Caucasus, I: Discourses of Division.
Chair: Katherine Babayan (University of Michigan).
Medea Badashvili (Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi): “Muslim Women’s identity in
Post-Soviet Georgia.”
Paul Crego (Library of Congress): “Georgian-Abkhaz Relations in the Context of
Language Policy in the Twentieth Century.”
Silvia Serrano (CNRS/CERCEC, Paris): “Religion in Contemporary National
Discourse.”
Kevin Tuite (Université de Montréal): “Sacred Sites of the Northeast Georgian Highlands and Representations of Georgianness in the Post-Soviet Period.”
1:00 – 3:00 – Diversity and Unity in the South Caucasus, II: Armenians and the
Georgian Nation.
Chair: Jirair Libaridian (University of Michigan).
Thornike Gordadze (Paris Institute of Political Studies): “Historical Sociology of the
Formation of Identity Boundaries in Georgia: The Case of the ‘Georgian’/‘Armenian’ Cleavage.”
Mariam Chkhartishvili (Tbilisi State University): “Armenians in the Process of
Georgian Identity Forging.”
Tamara Vardanyan (Noravank Foundation, Erevan): “Armenian-Georgian Interethnic
Relations in Tbilisi: Mutual Stereotypes and Perceptions.”
Asbed Kochikian (Florida State University): ‘Neither Enemies, Nor Friends: Georgian-
Armenian Relations Between Old and New.”
3:00 – 6:00 – Expressing the National, Performing the Nation.
Chair: Ronald Grigor Suny (University of Michigan):
Harsha Ram (University of California, Berkeley): “Socialist Realism and the Nation in
Georgia.”
Mzia Chikhradze (National Center for Georgian Art History, Tbilisi): “Cultural Life of
Tbilisi, 1910-1920s.”
Clinton J. Buhler (Ohio State University): “Redefining a Georgian National identity:
Issues of Collective Trauma in Tengiz Abuladze’s Repentence.”
Nino Tsitsishvili (Monash University): “From Folk to Hip-Hop: Tradition and
Globalization in the Music of Post-Socialist Georgia.”
Sunday, May 18
9:00 – 12:00 – Evolution and Revolution in Georgian Political Development.
Chair: Ronald Grigor Suny (University of Michigan).
Jeremy Smith (Birmingham University): “Beria, Stalin, Khrushchev, and Georgian
Nationalism: The 1956 Riots in Context.”
Stephen F. Jones (Mount Holyoke College): “The Role of Non-Violence in the Rose
Revolution.”
Vicken Cheterian (CIMERA): “Georgia’s Rose Revolution: Democratization? State-
Building? Or Permanent Revolution?
Alexandre Kukhianidze (Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, Tbilisi):
“Corruption, Transnational Crime and Smuggling in Georgia: Comparing the Shevardnadze and Saakishvili Periods.”
1:00 – 4:00 – Challenges of the Modern Moment: Georgia in the Globalizing World.
Chair: Jirair Libaridian (University of Michigan).
Jonathan Kulick (Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies):
“Georgian Political Culture in Light of the 2008 Elections.”
David Darchiashvili (Open Society Georgia Foundation): “Modern National Interests and
Post-Modern Threats: The Georgian Case.”
Sergei Markedonov (Institute of Political and Military Analysis, Моscow): “Russian-Georgian Relations: Contemporary Challenges and Tendencies.”
An International Conference on Armenian-Ukrainian Relations,
L'viv, Ukraine,
May 29-30, 2008
The Armenian Studies Program at the University of Michigan, the Ukrainian Catholic University, the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, and the L'viv Department of the Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies are pleased to announce an international conference on Armenian-Ukrainian relations. The conference will be held in L'viv, Ukraine, over two days, 29-30 May, 2008.
The conference will focus on some of the fundamental aspects of Armenian-Ukrainian cultural and historical relations in the past millennium. These relations have been studied to a considerable degree and the organizers are especially keen on attracting scholars engaged in original archival research with a view to shedding new light, complementing or re-interpreting our knowledge of these relations.
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