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SUMMARY:Microhistories of Armenian Early Modernity\, A UCLA Workshop on Diaspora\, Print Culture\, Confession Building\, and Governmentality\, c. 1512/1604-1789
DESCRIPTION:MICROHISTORIES OF ARMENIAN EARLY MODERNITY\nA UCLA Workshop on Diaspora\, Print Culture\, Confession Building\, and Governmentality\nUCLA University Club\, Sequoia Room\n May 29–30\, 2026\nOrganized by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History \nCo-Sponsored by the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Department of History\, The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA\, the UCLA Narekatsi Chair in Armenian Studies\, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR)\, and the Centre for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) at UCLA \n\nTo register for Zoom\, please follow this link: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98816914605 \n\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\nDAY 1 — MAY 29\, 2026\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ \nBreakfast — 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM \nWelcome & Opening Remarks — 10:00 AM – 10:10 AM\nSebouh D. Aslanian and Sona Tajiryan \nFraming Address — 10:10 AM – 10:30 AM\nSebouh D. Aslanian\nThrough the Eye of a Needle: Global Microhistory and Armenian Early Modernity \nPANEL I — THE MAGICAL WORLD OF ARMENIAN PRINT\n10:30 AM – 12:30 PM\nDiscussant: Dr. Sona Tajiryan \n• Aram Ghoogasian (UCLA)\nThe Uses and Misuses of Early Modern Books\, 1512–1800 \n• Anush Apresyan (Matenadaran-Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute)\nThe Mekhitarists’ Contribution to Early Modernity: Abbot Mekhitar in Armenian Old Printed Books \n• Hratch Kestenian (Orient-Institut Beirut)\nMaking Medicine Legible: Mik‘ayēl Rēstēn Tēr-Petrosean and Early Modern Armenian Medical Print \nLunch Break — 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM \nPANEL II — OBJECTS IN MOTION: MATERIALITY\, POWER\, AND PATRONAGE\n2:00 PM – 4:00 PM\nDiscussant: Dr. Sebouh D. Aslanian (UCLA) \n• Ani Margaryan (Soochow University)\nPatronage\, Materiality\, and Identity: A Microhistorical Inquiry into Armenian Mercantile Networks through Objets d’Art \n• Emma Harutyunyan (Harvard)\nLiturgical Objects and the Construction of Patronal Identity \n• Sona Tajiryan (Independent Researcher)\nA Merchant’s Extraordinary Gem Portfolio: An Early Modern Phenomenon? \nPANEL III — MOBILITY AND MEMORY IN PERIPHERAL AND URBAN SPACES AND LIVED EXPERIENCE\n4:00 PM – 6:00 PM\nDiscussant: Dr. S. Peter Cowe (UCLA) \n• Naira Poghosyan (Yerevan State University)\nArmenians in the Ottoman Province: A Microhistorical Reading of Hakop Divrikts‘i’s Chronicle (1759–1783) \n• Başak Yağmur Karaca (USC)\nDiaspora in Built Form: Armenian Mobility and Commercial Buildings in Eighteenth-Century Intra-Muros Istanbul \n• Haykuhi Muradyan (Yerevan State University)\nA Microhistory of the Armenian Church of Dhaka (1781): Diaspora\, Mobility\, and Memory \nDinner (By Invitation Only) — 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM\nAt Professor Aslanian’s home \n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\nDAY 2 — MAY 30\, 2026\n━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ \nPANEL IV — HISTORIES OR STORIES? WORDS AND LITERATURE AS WITNESSES TO INTERACTION\, MIGRATION\, AND IMAGINATION\n10:00 AM – 12:00 PM\nDiscussant: Dr. Maran Momdjian (UCLA) \n• Suman Pal (University of Calcutta)\nGrigor Harutiunian in Eighteenth-Century Bengal: Diaspora and Historical Imagination \n• Kristine Baghdasaryan (Pázmány Péter Catholic University / Free University of Berlin)\nArmenian Words and Cross-Cultural Interactions in the Dede Qorqud Epic\, c. 1512–1789 \n• Vera Sahakyan (Matenadaran-Mesrop Mashtots Research Institute)\nSurviving Memory: Shah Abbas’s Deportations and the Transmission of Environmental Toponyms \nLunch Break — 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM \nPANEL V — CONFESSIONALISM BETWEEN TEXT AND TRIBUNAL: VERNACULAR CULTURE\, IMPOSTURE\, AND THE LAW\n1:30 PM – 3:30 PM\nDiscussant: Dr. Hagop Gulludjian (UCLA) \n• Anna Ohanjanyan (Matenadaran Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts)\nConfessional Mobility and Imposture: A Microhistory of an Armenian “False Priest” in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman World \n• Sebouh D. Aslanian (UCLA)\nInquisitorial Ashkharhabar: Inventing Eastern Armenian in Confessional Manila\, c 1740-1760 \n• Yavuz Aykan (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)\nFrom the Subject of Desire to the Subject of Law: Towards a Microhistory of Metropolitan Toros in Ottoman Trabzon\, 1723 \n3:30 PM — Closing & Farewell
URL:https://modernarmenianhistory.history.ucla.edu/event/microhistories-of-armenian-early-modernity-a-ucla-workshop-on-diaspora-print-culture-confession-building-and-governmentality-c-1512-1604-1789/
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