A Symposium Moderated by Dr. Armen T. Marsoobian
Co-Curator of Continuity and Rupture: An Armenian Family Odyssey

Brand Library
Sunday, March 25, 2018, 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM

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(To watch a video recording of each speaker, please click the links below)
10:30am   Armenian Photography Across Generations

Dr. Joseph E. Malikian, Independent Researcher, New York

Part 1

Part 2 

Part 3

 

11:15am   Beyond Orientalism:  The Vernacular Dimension of Ottoman Photography
Dr. Edhem Eldem, Professor of History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul & the International Chair Turkish and Ottoman History, College de France, Paris

Part 1 

Part 2

 

12:45pm   Curator Tour of Continuity and Rupture:  An Armenian Family Odyssey
Dr. Armen T. Marsoobian, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven

 

 

1:30pm   Photographs as Research Tools at the Getty Research Institute
Dr. Frances Terpak, Curator, Photographs, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

Part 1 

 

2:15pm   The Archival Turn in Art History and Art Practice
Hande Sever, California Institute of the Arts & the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

Part 1

 

3:00pm   Photography between Borders: Armenian Photographers in Oajar Iran & the Ottoman Empire
Dr. Staci Gem Scheiwiller, Associate Professor of Modern Art History, Art Department, California State University, Stanislaus

Part 1

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This symposium is presented under the auspices of The Richard Hovannisian Chair in Modern Armenian History, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with additional support from the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR).