Friday, April 9, 2021 (all times local Chicago CDT times)
Symposium Program
ANCIENT ARMENIA: CENTER AND PERIPHERIES
Friday, April 9, 2021 (all times local Chicago CST times)
Organizers: Alain Bresson – Elizabeth Fagan
This event is part of the Dumanian Lecture Series in Armenian Studies
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
Participants:
- Dr. Sylvia Alajaji, Franklin & Marshall College, Dumanian Visiting Associate Professor at UChicago
- Dr. Clifford Ando, The University of Chicago
- Dr. Alain Bresson, The University of Chicago
- Dr. Timothy Clark, The University of Chicago
- Dr. Lara Fabian, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, BaSaR Project
- Dr. Elizabeth Fagan, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Dr. Kate Franklin, Birbeck College, University of London
- Dr. Rachel Goshgarian, Lafayette College
- Dr. Hripsime Haroutunian, The University of Chicago
- Dr. Katie Kearns, The University of Chicago
- Dr. Christina Maranci, Tufts University
