Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History

Diyarbekir 1915: Deportations, Massacres, and New Alliances Among the Local Elites
2013-03-27 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 10383 Bunche Hall, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90045, United States
A lecture by Ayhan Aktar
Bilgi University (Istanbul, Turkey)
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Ayhan Aktar, professor of International Relations at Bilgi University in Istanbul, will speak on the tragic events that took place in Diyarbekir from 1914 to 1919. His presentation will focus on war, mobilization, the deportations of Armenians, and the flood of Muslim refugees from Eastern Anatolia, which was under Russian occupation from May 1915 to October 1917.
The event was sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA and cosponsored by the UCLA Department of History and the G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies

Lecture on How Violence and Genocide in Ottoman Turkey Affect Our World Today
2013-03-06 16:00 - 18:00 | A18 Haines Hall
The Persistence of the Past: How Violence and Genocide in Ottoman Turkey Affect Our World Today
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Ronald Grigor Suny, the Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, will speak on the consequences, enduring legacy, and effects of the events of 1915 on politics in modern Turkey. The fate of Ottoman Armenians is intricately connected both to the identity of the Turkish nation in its denial of what occurred as the Ottoman Empire was living through its last years and to the current conflicts between Turks and Kurds. Suny will explore both the Kemalist heritage and the policies of the Islamist government of present-day Turkey.
This one-day conference was sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA and cosponsored by the UCLA Department of History and the G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies.

One Day Conference Held on Central Asians in World History
2013-02-22 | Young Research Library Presentation Room, 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
“The Mongols From the Margins: New Perspectives on Central Asians in World History”

A one-day conference, sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia and the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History
Friday, February 22, 2013
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
UCLA Young Research Library
Presentation Room (11348 LLC-ground floor)
Stretching from the plains of Eastern Europe to the warm waters of the Pacific, the Pax Mongolica created Eurasia-wide networks of exchange and circulation through which not only military personnel, pathogens, and commodities circulated from China to the Eastern Mediterranean, but also ideas, customs, and social practices. How did the tenticular expansion of Mongol networks transform the cultural, social, and even imaginary realms of societies situated on the peripheries of Mongol rule? How did the societies on the margins in turn project their own representations of Mongol rule and its transformative role in the history of the region? This conference seeks to explore these two different yet related questions from the perspective of peoples on the distant margins of the Pax Mongolica who usually do not occupy a central position in the conventional historiography of Mongol Eurasia. Placing a Central Asian empire and its Eurasian outliers into the framework of a global medieval history, The Mongols from the Margins brings together international specialists on Cilician Armenia, the Caucasus, Japan, Europe, Egypt, and Byzantium to re-examine Mongol history from its multifarious peripheries.
Organized by Nile Green, Director of the Program on Central Asia and Professor of History, and Sebouh Aslanian, Assistant Professor & Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History.
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Schedule:
10:00 – Welcome
10:15 – Opening Remarks
Nile Green, Professor & Director of the Program on Central Asia
Sebouh Aslanian, Assistant Professor & Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History
10:30 – Panel 1: Western Margins? (Chair: Peter Cowe, UCLA)
Charles Halperin, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington
No One Knew Who They Were: Russian Interaction with the Mongols
Steve Rapp, Sam Houston State University
Mongol Caucasia: Regional Historiographies and Social Change in an Integrating Eurasian World
Zara Pogossian, Bochum University/John Cabot College (Rome)
The changing role of women in Cilician Armenian court as a result of interacting with the Mongols
12:30 – Lunch
2:00 – Panel 2: Eastern Margins? (Chair: Richard von Glahn, UCLA)
Thomas Conlan, Bowdoin College
From Ad Hoc to Ongoing: The Mongol Invasions and the Institutionalization of Authority in Japan
Bettine Birge, USC
Reception and (Mis)representation: Mongol Influences on China from the Perspective of Law and Gender
3:30 – Coffee break
4:00 – Keynote Lecture- Introduced by Bin Wong, UCLA
Morris Rossabi, Distinguished Professor of History, Queens College, CUNY
The Mongol Contribution to Eurasian History
5:00 – End of conference
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How to Park at UCLA
Tel: (310) 825-0007
asia@international.ucla.edu
international.ucla.edu/asia/centralasia/
Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, Asia Institute, Program on Central Asia, Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History

UCLA to Host Important Conference to mark 500 years of Armenian Printing
2012-11-09 - 2012-11-11 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
LOS ANGELES—From Nov. 9-11, the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History at UCLA will host an international conference titled “Port Cities and Printers: Five Centuries of Global Armenian Print” in honor of Prof. Richard Hovannisian.
From its origins in Venice in 1512, the history of early modern (1500-1800) Armenian print culture was closely entangled with that of port cities, initially in Europe and subsequently in Asia. In fact, virtually every Armenian printing press before 1800 was established either in or close to port cities, and the few that were not, owed their existence to ongoing relations with port locations. Yet, despite the obvious relationship between ports and printers, their synergetic relationship has thus far largely eluded scholarly attention. Convened on the quincentenary of the printing of the first Armenian book, this conference explores the intimate relationship between port cities and printers in the rich history of global Armenian print culture.
The conference will be convened by Dr. Sebouh D. Aslanian, the holder of the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair of Modern Armenian History at UCLA, and is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of History, the UCLA G. E. Von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), and is made possible by a generous grant by Mr. Mark Chenian. The conference will kick off with a keynote address on the topic of the history of books and reading in the early modern Atlantic world, not directly related to Armenian print history, at Royce Hall 314 on Friday evening at 5 PM. Starting on Saturday morning at 9:15 AM, scholars of Armenian print and book history will hold back-to-back panels on various aspects of Armenian book history ranging from the topic of the crucial shift from Manuscript to Print culture in the early decades of the 1500s to the relationship between merchants, ports, and printers, as well as the social and cultural role of print technology in shaping the arc of Armenian history. The Saturday and Sunday panels will be held at Rolfe Hall 1200 on the UCLA campus from 9:15 AM to 6:00 PM. The conference is free and open to the public. Download the conference program by clicking the following:
Port Cities and Printers Conference Program
Click here to view speaker essays for November 10
Click here to view speaker essays for November 11
For further information contact Dr. Sebouh Aslanian at saslanian@history.ucla.edu.

Additional news on this conference can be found on the The Armenian Weekly website.
