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"Armenia, Armenians, and the New World History" with Stephen Rapp

The Vahe and Armine Meghrouni Lecture Series in Armenian Studies

presents

"Armenia, Armenians, and the New World History"

with

Stephen Rapp, Jr.
Department of History
Sam Houston State University

Thursday, February 21
6:30 p.m.
Humanities Gateway 1030

Complimentary parking available in Lot 7

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Using examples from late antiquity and the medieval period, this presentation explores the benefits of applying large-scale connective and comparative methodologies from the New World History to Armenian Studies. It begins with an overview of the scholarship of the New World History, emphasizing the contribution of Arnold Toynbee, William McNeill, Marshall Hodgson, and others. Cross-cultural approaches are particularly appropriate for the study of the various pre-modern Armenians and Armenias. Within Caucasia proper, Armenians emerge as one of many peoples who belonged to a highly diverse yet coherent, integrated, and cosmopolitan region. Armenian historiography was, as we shall see, in dialogue with the historical literature produced by contemporaneous Georgians and Caucasian Albanians. And events such as the Armenians’ Third Council of Duin had a lasting pan-regional impact.