THE VENETIAN CRADLE: FROM MEGHAPART TO MKHITAR (10:00-12:00)
CHAIR: Ra’anan Boustan (UCLA, Department of History)
DISCUSSANT: Gabriel Piterberg (UCLA, Department of History)
DISCUSSANT: Gabriel Piterberg (UCLA, Department of History)
- Claude Mutafian: “Italian Port Cities and Armenian printers” (Université Paris XIII)
- Agnes Ouzounian: “Ուրբաթագիրք (Venise, 1512): du manuscrit au premier livre imprimé.”* (INALCO, ICP, Paris)
- Meroujan Karapetyan: “Venice and the Mkhitarist Printing Enterprise: Some Reflections on the Business of Publishing” (in Armenian)* (American University of Armenia)
Lunch Break: 12:00-2:00
THE ITINERANT ARMENIAN PRINTING SHOP: AMSTERDAM, CONSTANTINOPLE, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS (2:00-4:00)
CHAIR: Michael Morony (UCLA, Department of History)
DISCUSSANT: Talar Chahinian (CSULB, Department of Comparative World Literature)
- Elizabet Tajiryan: “Armenian Printing in Amsterdam: A Typological Analysis” (in Armenian)* (Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia)
- Vazken Ghougassian: “The Printing Enterprise of Armenians in India” (Armenian Prelacy, NY)
- Christina Maranci: “Works of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Armenian Manuscript Illumination in Seventeenth-Century Constantinople” (Tufts University, Department of Art History)
READERS, PRINTERS, AND THE GLOBAL CIRCULATION OF BOOKS (4:00-6:00)
CHAIR: David Myers (UCLA, Department of History)
DISCUSSANT: Margaret Jacob (UCLA, Department of History)
DISCUSSANT: Margaret Jacob (UCLA, Department of History)
- Raymond H. Kévorkian: “Marchands et clercsimprimeurs: complémentarité et coopération au XVIIe siècle de Venise à Amsterdam”* (Bibliothèque arménienne, Nubar, Paris)
- Sebouh D. Aslanian: “A Reader Responds to Joseph Emin’s Life and Adventures: Notes towards a ‘history of Reading’ in Early Modern Madras” (UCLA, Department of history)
- Peter Cowe: “Print as a Medium for the Transmission of Scientific and Scholarly Innovation in Armenian Society (16th-18th cc.)” (UCLA, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)