Armeno-Iranica: A Shared History - A Two-Day Conference in Honor of Nina Garsoian


 Center for Persian Studies and Culture     Jan 26 2019 - Jan 27 2019 | 10:00 AM - 9:30 PM UCI, Humanities Gateway (HG) 1030; UCLA, Royce Hall 314

Please join us for an international two-day conference at UCI and UCLA,

Armeno-Iranica: A Shared History, A Conference in Honor of Nina Garsoian

Saturday, January 26, 2019, 10:00 am - 8:30 pm
UC Irvine (Ancient & Modern), Humanities Gateway (HG) 1030

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Sunday, January 27, 2018, 9:30 am - 9:30 pm 
UCLA (Medieval & Early Modern), Royce Hall 314

This event is presented by UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture, UCI Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies, UCLA Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair in Modern Armenian History, and National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). Organized by Sebouh Aslanian, Houri Berberian and Touraj Daryaee.

This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.

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Day 1 (UC Irvine)
Saturday, January 26, 2019, 10:00 am - 8:30 pm:


10:00-10:15
Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine) & Houri Berberian (UC Irvine)
Welcoming Remarks

10:15 - 10:30
Levon Avdoyan (Library of Congress, Washington DC)
NINA GARSOIAN'S CONTRIBUTION TO ARMENO-IRANIAN
STUDIES


PANEL 1 - 10:30 - 12:15
PERSARMENIA: CULTURE, RELIGION, AND KINSHIP
Chair: Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine)
Shervin Farridnejad (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Zoroastrianism and Pre-Christian Religion in Persarmenia:
The Armenian Way
Omar Coloru (Maison de l'Archéologie et de l'Ethnologie René Ginouvès)
The City of Brotherly Love: The Language of Family
Affection in the Artaxiad Dynasty between the Hellenistic
and the Parthian Worlds
Matthew Canepa (UC Irvine)
Perso-Macedonian, Armeno-Iranian: Shared Dynastic
Histories and Intertwined Cultures of Kingship after the
Achaemenids
Tim Greenwood (University of St Andrews)
Armenia and Iran in Late Antiquity: New perspectives

LUNCH FOR PARTICIPANTS - 12:15 - 1:15

PANEL 2 - 1:15 - 3:00
SHARED AND CONTESTED HISTORIES AND
REALITIES: FROM POLITICS TO MUSIC

Chair: Simcha Gross (UC Irvine)
Touraj Daryaee (UC Irvine)
Armenia and Ērānšahar: The Politics of Identity in Late
Antique Iran and the Caucasus
Arnold Alahverdian (UC Irvine)
Heroism in the East: Nomadic Invasions and Prospects for the
Armenian Elite’s Political Mobility in the Later Sasanian Empire
Khodadad Rezakhani (Princeton University)
The Northern Barrier: Armenians and Dailamites in the
Early Medieval Iranian World
Lilit Yernjakyan (Institute of Art of the National Academy of Sciences)
Armenian-Iranian Interrelations in Traditional Art Music

BREAK - 3:00 - 3:15

PANEL 3 - 3:15 - 5:30
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES OF
RESEARCH AND BELONGING

Chair: Nasrin Rahimieh (UC Irvine)
Eliz Sanasarian (University of Southern California)
Complexities of Objective Research on Armenians in Iran
Houri Berberian (UC Irvine)
A Shared World of Revolution: Belonging, Socialism, and
the National Question
Talinn Grigor (UC Davis)
Reza Shah’s Cosmopolitan Architects
Claudia Yaghoubi (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Diasporic Transnational Iranian Armenians in Zoya
Pirzad's Works
James Barry (Deakin University, Victoria)
Iranian Armenian Perceptions of Proximity and Distance

KEYNOTE ADDRESS - 5:45 - 6:30
Stephen Rapp (Sam Houston State University)
Medieval Caucasia and the Byzantine Turn: The Fate of a
Christianized Persianate Society

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY TAAK ENSEMBLE - 6:40 - 7:10
Niloufar Shiri - Kamancheh
Mahtab Nadalian - Santoor
Arian Khoroushi - Percussion
Hesam Abedini - Vocals

RECEPTION - 7:10 - 8:30



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Day 2 (UCLA)
Sunday, January 27, 2019, 9:30 am - 9:30 pm


INTRODUCTIONS   9:30AM - 10:00AM
9:30 AM - 9:40 AM
David C. Schaberg, Dean of Humanities, UCLA
Welcoming Remarks
Sebouh David Aslanian (UCLA) and Bruce Roat (NAASR)
Introductory Remarks
9:40AM - 10:00AM
Levon Avdoyan (Library of Congress--Retired)
The Epic History of Nina G. Garsoïan: Armenia and Iran
Restored

PANEL 1   10:00AM - 12:00PM
A SHARED CULTURAL AND LITERARY COSMOS

Chair: Levon Avdoyan (Library of Congress--Retired)
Alison Vacca (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
The Iranian Intermezzo and the Question of Parthianness
S. Peter Cowe (UCLA)
A Rose by Any Other Name... Armenian Romance?
Amy Landau (Freer|Sackler, Smithsonian Institution)
A World of Images: Evolving Armenian and Muslim Views
in Safavid Iran

LUNCH FOR PARTICIPANTS   12:00PM - 1:30PM

PANEL 2   1:30PM - 3:00PM
A PERSIANATE WORLD OF THE INDIAN OCEAN

Chair: Sanjay Subrahmanyam (UCLA)
Sebouh D. Aslanian (UCLA)
Across Persianate Waters: The Voyage of the Santa Catharina
and its Floating Archive
Arash Khazeni (Pomona College)
Armenian Merchants, Southeast Asia, and the Ends of the
Indo-Persian World: A View from Arakan c. 1728

PANEL 3   3:00PM - 4:30PM
MERCHANT BIOGRAPHIES BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Chair: Mary Momjian (UCLA)
Sona Tajiryan (UCLA)
Connecting the Armeno-Iranian and Mediterranean Worlds:
A Seventeenth-Century Armenian Diamond Merchant in Action
Henry Shapiro (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Polonsky Academy)
Ottoman Subject, Russian Prisoner, Servant of Persia: The
Literary and Documentary Corpus of Ełia Karnets‘i

BREAK   3:00PM - 3:15PM

PANEL 4   4:45PM - 6:15PM
THE WORLDS OF RELIGION AND POLITICS

Chair: Nile Green (UCLA)
Rudi Matthee (University of Delaware)
Shah Sultan Husayn and the Christians: New Julfan
Armenians and European Missionaries in Late Safavid Iran
Kristine Kostikyan (Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy
of Sciences, Yerevan)
Relations Between the Catholicoses of All Armenians and
the Safavid State in it's Period of Decline

KEYNOTE ADDRESS   6:15PM - 7:00PM
Edmund Herzig (Oxford University)
Armenians and Persians in the Safavid Empire: Proximity
without Affinity?

DINNER   7:00PM - 8:00PM

CONCERT   8:00PM - 9:30PM
Lernazang (Լեռնազանգ) Ensemble:
Areni Agbabian - vocals   Gabe Lavin - oud
Naghme Sarang - kamanche   Armen Adamian - duduk
Haik Adamian - dhol



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