Confessionalization and Reform: The Mkhit‘arist Enterprise from Constantinople to Venice, Trieste, and Vienna
A Conference in memory of Father Sahak Djemjemian and on the Occasion of the 300th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Congregation in Venice
UCLA Faculty Center, California Room
16 and 17 December 2017
Video of Event:
(To watch a video recording of each speaker, please click on their name below.)
Saturday, 16 December 2017
9:20-10:00am
Opening Remarks: Conference organizers and co-sponsors
Welcome Address: His Excellency Archbishop Levon Zekiyan
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10:00-11:30am
Panel 1: Confessionalism, ‘Communicatio in Sacris,’ and the Mkhit‘arist Congregation
- Paulo Lucca (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia): “Neither Fowl nor Fish? The Venice Branch of the Mkhit‘arists and the Roman Hierarchy in the Early Nineteenth Century”
- Cesare Santus (École française de Rome): “Mkhit‘ar’s Doubts: The Problem of ‘Communicatio in Sacris’ among the Armenian Catholics in the Ottoman Empire.”
- Benedetta Contin (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia): “Mkhit‘ar and the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Challenge of Mkhitarist Ecumenism”
- Q&A
11:45am-1:15pm
Panel 2: Mkhit‘ar Sebastats‘i, Rome, and Print Culture: Eighteenth-Century Confessionalization in a Diaspora
- Raymond Kévorkian (Paris): “The Origins of the Editorial Vocation of Mkhit‘ar Sebastats‘i”
- Jesse Arlen (UCLA): “‘In Creation of Readerly Taste’: Paratextuality in the ‘Publishing Mission’ of Mkhit‘ar of Sebastia”
- Anna Sirinian (University of Bologna): “The Birth and the Early Years of Bazmavep”
- Q&A
2:45-4:15pm
Panel 3: The Mkhit‘arists in the East: Trieste, Vienna, and Transylvania:
- Sebouh David Aslanian (UCLA): “The Great Schism of 1773: Venice and the Creation of the Armenian Community of Trieste”
- Meline Pehlivanian (Berlin): “The Mkhit‘arists’ Vienna Branch and the Advent of German-Speaking Armenology”
- Bálint Kovács (Leipzig University): “The Mkhit‘arist Missions in Transylvania”
- Q&A
8:30-10:30pm (Bridges Theater, UCLA)
Keynote Address (in Armenian)
- Krikor Beledian: “Մխիթարեան աւանդութիւնը եւ արեւմտահայ բանաստեղծութիւնը” (The Mkhit‘arist Tradition and Western Armenian Poetics)
- Hakop Papazyan (director) and Nver Mnatsakanyan (producer) screening of Documentary on Oscan Yerevants‘i
Sunday, 17 December 2017
3:00-4:30pm
Panel 4: The Mkhit‘arist Congregation During Its Nineteenth-Century Heyday
- S. Peter Cowe (UCLA): “Beauty, Nobility, and Harmony: The Mkhit‘arist Aesthetic in Relation to Ethics and Politics, the Impact of this Nexus on the Western Armenian Awakening, and its Place in Eighteenth-Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History”
- Hagop Gulludjian (UCLA): “The Mkhit‘arist Project and Lessons on Language Revitalization”
- Reverend Vahan Ohanian (San Lazzaro): “Հայր Ղեւոնդ Ալիշանը իր նամակներու լուսարձակին տակ” (Father Ghevond Alishan in Light of His Correspondence)
- Q&A
4:30-5:30pm
Panel 5: The Mkhit‘arist Manuscript Collection and the Legacy of the Order during the Twentieth Century:
- Gevork Ter Vardanian: “Մխիթարեանց Վենետիկի ձեռագրական հաւաքածուի կազմաւորումը եւ գիտական մշակումը” (The Formation of the Manuscript Collection of the Mkhit‘arists in Venice and Its Scholarly Development)
- Agop Manoukian (Venice and Milan): “The Mkhit‘arist Presence in Milan c. 1923-1933 and the Emerging Armenian Community of Italy”
8:30-10:30pm (Bridges Theater, UCLA)
Keynote Address (in Armenian)
- Marc Nichanian: “1810-1820: հրաշալի տասնամեակ մը» (1810-1820: An Astonishing Decade)
- Hakop Papazyan (director) and Nver Mnatsakanyan (producer) screening of documentary on Mkhit‘ar Sebastats‘i
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This event was organized by The Richard Hovannisian Chair in Modern Armenian History, and co-sponsored with the Narekats’i Chair of Armenian Studies (UCLA), the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), the USC Armenian Studies Institute, and the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES).
