Print Conference Schedule – November 10, 2012

9:00 AM to 6:00 PM

OPENING REMARKS: Dr. Sebouh D. Aslanian followed by Richard Hovannisian (9:15-9:30)

INTRODUCTION: Sebouh D. Aslanian: “Port Cities, Printers, and Port Armenians” (9:30-10:00)

THE STATE OF THE ART TODAY I: ARMENIAN BOOK COLLECTIONS AT UCLA AND BEYOND (10:00-12:00)

CHAIR: Anahid Keshishian: (UCLA, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)

DISCUSSANT: Mary Momdjian (UCLA, Department of History)

• Gia Aivazian: “Armenian Studies at UCLA and the University Library’s Armenian Collections” (UCLA, Young Research Library)

• Nora Avetyan: “The UCLA Minasian Collection of Manuscripts and Archival Materials” (UCLA, Young Research Library)
• Marc A. Mamigonian: “An Overview of Armenian-American Publishing and Library Collections in the Northeast U.S. (Through 1930)” (National Association for Armenian Studies and Research)

WELCOMING REMARKS: Dean Alessandro Duranti (12:00-12:10)

LUNCH BREAK: 12:10-2:00

THE STATE OF THE ART TODAY II: ARMENIAN BOOK COLLECTIONS AT UCLA AND BEYOND (2:00-4:00)

CHAIR: Vahram Shemmassian (CSUN, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures)

DISCUSSANT: Hagop Gulludjian (UCLA, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)

• Taline Voskeritchian: “The Librairie Orientale: An Exilic Bookstore in Paris and the Making of a Diaspora Community” (Boston University)
• Karin Karakașli: “The Continuing Legacy of Armenian Print culture in Istanbul: On the periodical Agos and the publishing house Aras” (Agos and Aras publishers)
• Ara Sanjian: “Armenian Libraries in the Diaspora Confronting the Age of Digital Globalization: The Case of the Armenian Research Center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn” (University of Michigan, Dearborn)

MANUSCRIPT BEFORE PRINT: WAS THERE AN EARLY MODERN ARMENIAN “PRINTING REVOLUTION”? (4:00-6:00)

CHAIR: Ron Mellor (UCLA, Department of History)

DISCUSSANT: Teo Ruiz (UCLA, Department of History)

• Sergio La Porta “Before Print: Manuscript Distribution Networks and the Development of the Armenian Intellectual Tradition” (CSU Fresno, Armenian Studies Program)
• Sylvie L. Merian: “The Transition from Manuscript to Print (and vice versa): Physical Evidence in Armenian Books and Manuscripts” (The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York)
• Tamar M. Boyadjian: “The Surface beneath the Script: Paper as a Medium for Studying the Evolution of the Armenian Book” (UCLA, Postdoctoral Fellow)
• Dickran Kouymjian: “Revolution or Evolution? The Armenian Book from Manuscript to Print” (CSU Fresno & Paris)