We're happy to announce the virtual Symposium "Ancient Armenia: Center and Peripheries," hosted by the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. This program is co-sponsored by NELC as part of the Dumanian Lecture Series in Armenian Studies and will take place Friday April 9, 2021 from 9:00am-6:15 pm CDT (please see below for schedule).
For more information about the Symposium, please visit the OI website: https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/symposia/ancient-armenia-center-and-peripheries.
Morning
9:00 am – 9:20 am:
Opening of the Symposium:
Anne Robertson, Dean of Humanities
Richard Neer, Director of the Franke Institute
Theo Van Den Hout, Interim Director of the Oriental Institute
Introduction:
Alain Bresson and Elizabeth Fagan
Chair of the morning session: Hripsime Haroutunian
9:20 am – 10:00 am : Timothy Clark - Trajanic Representations of Roman-Armenian Relations
10:00 am – 10:50 am: Lara Fabian - Crossing the Greater Caucasus: Dynastic Politics and the Evidence for Interaction between the North and South Caucasus (ca. 300 BCE–400 CE)
10:50 am – 11:10 am: Coffee Break
11:10 am – 12:00 pm: Elizabeth Fagan and Alain Bresson - Evidence for the Christianization of Armenia: Moses Khorenatsi and Beyond
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Lunch
Afternoon
Chair of the afternoon session: Sylvia Alajaji
2:00 pm – 2:50 pm: Rachel Goshgarian - Armeno-Turkish and the Space of Language in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Worlds: Manuscript Production and the Circulation of Ideas, Literature, and People
2:50 pm – 3:40 pm: Hripsime Haroutunian - What If She Said “Yes” To The King? The Story of One Little Maiden Who Fought Like A Man And Turned Around The Course of History
3:40 pm – 4:00 pm: Coffee Break
4:00 pm – 4:50 pm: Christina Maranci - Hard as Stone, Smooth as Wax: Interpreting Urartian Spolia in Medieval Armenian Architecture
4:50 pm – 5:40 pm: Kate Franklin - “World-rulers” and Local Worlds: Medieval Armenia and the Mongol Ecumene
5:40 pm – 5:45 pm: Short break
5:45 pm – 6:15 pm: Round table - Respondents: Clifford Ando, Katie Kearns
To register for this event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ancient-armenia-center-and-peripheries-tickets-144049691505.