Multimedia

Below you will find multimedia resources for two major events hosted by the Armenian Studies Program:

Armenia and Armenians in International Treaties

GEORGIA: THE MAKING OF A NATIONAL CULTURE

Armenia and Armenians in International Treaties

An International Conference hosted by the Armenian Studies Program

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

March 18-21, 2009

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

7:00 pm - Opening Reception

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Session I

9:00-12:00 - Preliminary Comments, Prof. Gerard Libaridian, Alex Manoogian Chair, University of Michgian, Ann Arbor

Dr. Levon Avdoyan, The Library of Congress, Washington DC, "Unintended Consequences: Three Ancient Treaties and the Armenians" (63, 299, 387 CE)

Prof. Robert H. Hewsen, Rowan University (New Jersy, Emeritus)/ Fresno, California, "Armenia in the Treaty of Nisibis of 299 CE"

Discussion

Prof. Seta B. Dadoyan, St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, New York, and City University of New York, "The Record of Islamic-Armenian Protocols: The Tradition of Medinan Oaths from Jerusalem Covenants, to Umayyad Treatises, Shah's Charter and Sultan's Rescripts"

Prof. Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Austria, "Armenian Aristocrats as Diplomatic Partners of Eastern Roman Emperors, 387-884/885 AD"

Discussion

Session II

2:00-5:00

Prof. Azat Bozoyan, Gevorkian Theological Seminary in Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenia, "The Treaty of Deapolis (1107) as an Example of the Byzantine Policy of 'Divide and Rule'"

Prof. Claude Mutafian, University of Paris - 13 (Emeritus), France, "The International Treaties of the Last Kingdom of Armenia"

Discussion

Mr. Armen Kouyoumdjian, Santiago, Chile, "When Madrid Was the Capital of Armenia"

Prof. Ali Kavani, University of Tehran, Iran, and Leiden University, Netherlands, "The Treaty of 1639 and its consequences for Armenia and Armenians"

Discussion

Friday, March 20, 2009

Session III

Dr. Sebouh Aslanian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, "Julfan Agreements with Foreign States and Chartered Companies: Exploring the limits of Julfan Collective Self-Representation in the Early Modern Age"

Prof. Kevork Bardakjian, Mary Manoogian Chair, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, "The National 'Constitution' of 1863: A Dhimmi-Muslim Contract?"

Discussion

Prof. Aram Yenegoyan, University of California, Davis, "No War, No Peace: The Treaty of Brest Litovsk, 1918"

Prof. Richard Hovannisian, AEF Chair in Modern Armenian History, University of California at Los Angeles, "The Unratified Treaty of Alexandropol as the Basis for Subsequent Russian-Turkish Armenian Relations"

Discussion

Session IV

2:00-4:00

Dr. Fuat Dundar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, "Diplomacy of Statistics: Discussing the Number of Armenians during Diplomatic Negotiations (1878-1914)"

Dr. Vladimir Vardanyan, Constitutional Court of Armenia, "Peace Treaties of Armenia and Relating to Armenia: A Legal Analysis"

Discussion

Prof. Dennis Papazian, University of Michigan-Dearborn, "The Treaty of Lausanne"

Discussion

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Session V

8:30-12:00

Dr. Lusine, Taslakyan, USAID in Armenia, Water Program, Armenia, "Armenia in International Environmental Conventions"

Mr. Emil Sanamyan, Armenian Reporter/Washington DC, "The OSCE-CFE Treaty and Breaches in the International Legal System: Armenia's Predicament Today"

Discussion

Mr. Rouben Shougarian, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, "Yielding More to Gain the Essential: The Russo-Armenian Treaty of 1997"

Prof Sevane Garibian, University of Paris x-Nanterre, France and University of Geneva, Switzerland, "From the 1915 Allied Declaration to the Treaty of Sevres: the Legacy of the Armenian Genocide in International Criminal Law"

Discussion

Session VI

1:30-4:00

Prof. Keith Watenpaugh, United States Institute of Peace, Washington DC, "The League of Nations and the Formation of Armenian Genocide Denial"

Mr. Pascual Ohanian, Esq., Honorary Member of the Buenos Aires Bar Association, Argentina, "International Treaties in International Penal Law Concerning Crimes against Humanity: Applicability of the Juridical Experience in Argentina and Chile to the Turkish-Ottoman State and Turkish Republic for Acts Perpetrated from 1910 to 1923 and Beyond"

Discussion

Prof. Catherine Kessedjian, University of Paris II (Pantheon-Assas), France, "Beyond Treaties"

Discussion

General Discussion

Concluding Comments by Prof. Gerard Libaridian

This conference was organized by the Armenian Studies Program and cosponsered by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, The Center for European Studies, The European Union Center, The Center for International and Comparative Studies, The Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, The Center for Russian and East European Studies, The Department of Near Eastern Studies, The Ford School of Public Policy, the School of Law of the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, The Armenian Research Center of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus.

 

GEORGIA: THE MAKING OF A NATIONAL CULTURE

An International Conference in the Series "Armenia and its Neighbors"
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
May 15-18, 2008

THURSDAY, MAY 15, 2008

Opening Reception.

FRIDAY, MAY 16, 2008

• Session I
• Session II
• Session III
• Session IV
• Session V
• Session VI
• Session VII
• Session VIII

SESSION I
9:00 - 12:00 pm - Christian Georgia: Culture and Identity in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period.
Chair: Kevork Bardakjian (University of Michigan). Windows Media | Quicktime

Stephen H. Rapp, Jr. (Georgia State University): "'The Land of Heroes and Giants': Recovering the Iranian Heritage of Medieval Georgia." Windows Media | Quicktime

Armen Kazaryan (State Institute for Art Study, Moscow): "Early Medieval Architecture in Georgia: Its Historiography and its Place in East-Christian Tradition." Windows Media | Quicktime

Tamila Mgaloblishvili (Center for Exploration of Georgian Antiquities): "Georgians in the Holy Land." Windows Media | Quicktime

Dean Sakel (Bogazici University): "Eighteenth-Century Reflections of Moves Towards a Georgian National Consciousness: The Element of Historiography." Windows Media | Quicktime

SESSION II
1:00 - 3:30 pm - The Emergence of Modern Georgian Nationalism.

Chair: Ronald Grigor Suny (University of Michigan). Quicktime

Hirotake Maeda (Hokaido): "Identity in Aleksandre Orbeliani (1802-1869)." Quicktime

Paul Manning (Trent University): "Georgians, that is, Readers of droeba" Quicktime

Oliver Reisner (Delegation of the European Commission to Georgia): "The Beginnings of Georgian National Historiography: Ivane Javakhishvili's kartveli eris istoria." Quicktime

SESSION III
4:00 - 5:30 pm - Kalaki: Tbilisi/ Tiflis - Culture and Politics.

Chair: Ronald Grigor Suny (University of Michigan).

David Khoshtaria (National Research Center for Georgian Art History): "Tbilisi in the Nineteenth Century: Cultural Diversity and Urban Identity." Quicktime

Mzia Chikhradze (National Center for Georgian Art History, Tbilisi): "Cultural Life of Tbilisi, 1910-1920s." Quicktime

 

SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2008

SESSION IV
9:00 - 12:00 pm - Diversity and Unity in the South Caucasus, I: Discourses of Division.

Chair: Katherine Babayan (University of Michigan).

Medea Badashvili (Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi): "Muslim Women's Identity in Post-Soviet Georgia." Quicktime

Paul Crego (Library of Congress): "Georgian-Abkhaz Relations in the Context of Language Policy in the Twentieth Century." Quicktime

Silvia Serrano (CNRS/CERCEC, Paris): "Religion in Contemporary National Discourse." Quicktime

Kevin Tuite (Université de Montréal): "Sacred Sites of the Northeast Georgian Highlands and Representations of Georgianness in the Post-Soviet Period." Quicktime

SESSION V
1:00 - 4:00 pm - Diversity and Unity in the South Caucasus, II: Armenians and the
Georgian Nation.

Chair: Jirair Libaridian (University of Michigan).

Thornike Gordadze (Paris Institute of Political Studies): "Historical Sociology of the Formation of Identity Boundaries in Georgia: The Case of the 'Georgian'/'Armenian' Cleavage." Quicktime

Mariam Chkhartishvili (Tbilisi State University): "Armenians in the Process of Georgian Identity Forging." Quicktime

Tamara Vardanyan (Noravank Foundation, Erevan): "Armenian-Georgian Interethnic Relations in Tbilisi:  Mutual Stereotypes and Perceptions." Quicktime

Asbed Kochikian (Florida State University): "Neither Enemies, Nor Friends: Georgian-Armenian Relations Between Old and New." Quicktime

SESSION VI
4:30 - 6:00 pm - Expressing the National, Performing the Nation.

Chair: Ronald Grigor Suny (University of Michigan).

Harsha Ram (University of California, Berkeley): "National Mythopoesis: Georgian Modernism, the National Question, and Socialist Realism." Quicktime

Clinton J. Buhler (Ohio State University): "Redefining a Georgian National identity: Issues of Collective Trauma in Tengiz Abuladze's Repentence." Quicktime

Nino Tsitsishvili (Monash University): "From Folk to Hip-Hop: Tradition and Globalization in the Music of Post-Socialist Georgia." Quicktime

 

SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2008

SESSION VII
9:00 - 12:00 pm - Evolution and Revolution in Georgian Political Development.

Chair: Ronald Grigor Suny (University of Michigan).

Jeremy Smith (Birmingham University): "Beria, Stalin, Khrushchev, and Georgian Nationalism: The 1956 Riots in Context." Quicktime

Stephen F. Jones (Mount Holyoke College): "The Role of Non-Violence in the Rose Revolution." Quicktime

Vicken Cheterian (CIMERA): "Georgia's Rose Revolution: Democratization? State-Building? Or Permanent Revolution?" Quicktime

Alexandre Kukhianidze (Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, Tbilisi): "Corruption, Transnational Crime and Smuggling in Georgia: Comparing the Shevardnadze and Saakashvili Periods." Quicktime

SESSION VIII
1:00 - 4:00 pm - Challenges of the Modern Moment: Georgia in the Globalizing World.

Chair: Jirair Libaridian (University of Michigan).

Jonathan Kulick (Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies): "Georgian Political Culture in Light of the 2008 Elections." Quicktime

David Darchiashvili (Open Society Georgia Foundation): "Modern National Interests and Post-Modern Threats: The Georgian Case." Quicktime

David Soumbadze (Independent Expert): "Democracy, State Building and Security in Post-Rose Revolution Georgia." Quicktime

Sergei Markedonov (Institute of Political and Military Analysis, Moscow): "Russian-Georgian Relations: Contemporary Challenges and Tendencies." Quicktime

This conference was sponsored by the Manoogian Simone Foundation, Armenian Studies Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and co-sponsored by Department of History, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Rackham Graduate School, the International Institute, the Center for Russian and East European Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and by the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC, based at the University of Chicago).