FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016
5:00-6:30 pm
Meet
& Greet with the Participants of the Conference
6:30-7:00 pm
Words
of Welcome
1.
Representative of the University of Michigan-Dearborn
administration
2.
Asbed Kotchikian, The Armenian Review
3.
Gregory Aftandilian, National Association for Armenian
Studies & Research
7:00-7:30 pm
Conference
Introduction
Ara
Sanjian, University of Michigan-Dearborn, “Why This
Conference?”
7:30-9:30 pm
PANEL
I: An Armenian “Cold War” before the Global Cold War?
Chair:
Cam Amin, University of
Michigan-Dearborn
1.
Garabet K. Moumdjian, Independent historian, Pasadena, CA, “ARF Collusion in the
Kurdish Rebellions of the 1920s and 1930s in Republican
Turkey: In Search of the Origins of Islamized Armenians in Turkey”
2.
Vahe Sahakyan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Negotiating Politics in a
Time of Crisis: The Changing Course of the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation During WWII and its Aftermath
(1941-1947)”
3.
Hazel Antaramian-Hofman, Fresno Community College, “Missing Ethnographic
Opportunities: Post-WWII American-Armenian Repatriation to
Soviet Armenia, 1947-1956”
Discussant:
Astrig Atamian, École des hautes études en sciences
sociales, Paris
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2016
10:00 am-12:00 pm
PANEL
II: Armenian-Americans in the 1950s
Chair:
Pam Pennock, University of Michigan-Dearborn
1.
Levon Chorbajian, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, “Roily Exchanges:
Newspaper Wars at the Hairenik Weekly and the Armenian
Mirror-Spectator in 1951”
2.
Gregory Aftandilian, American University, Washington, DC, “The Cold War Writings
of Reuben Darbinian in The Armenian Review”
3.
Benjamin F. Alexander, New York City College of Technology (CUNY), “The
Cold Wars of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation”
Discussant:
Khatchik DerGhougassian, Universidad de San
Andrés, Argentina
12:00-12:15 pm
Coffee
Break
12:15-1:30 pm
PANEL
III: The Armenian “Cold War” in
France
Chair:
Richard G. Hovannisian, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, and
Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California
1.
Jirair Jolakian, Nor Haratch, Paris, “The Cold War in the
Pages of the Newspaper Haratch”
2.
Astrig Atamian, École des hautes études en sciences
sociales, Paris, “Between Soviet Armenia and the French
Communist Party, the ‘Garmir’ Movement in France”
Discussant:
Asbed Kotchikian, Bentley University
1:30-3:00
Lunch
3:00-5:00 pm
PANEL
IV: The Armenian “Cold War” in South America
Chair:
Kevork Bardakjian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1.
Vartan Matiossian, Armenian National Education Committee, New York, “Fighting for History: An
Unknown Polemics in the Beginnings of the Cold War”
2.
Heitor Loureiro, São Paulo State University (UNESP), “Communism in the
Armenian Community in São Paulo and Repression by the
Political Police”
3.
Khatchik DerGhougassian, Universidad de San
Andrés, Argentina, “The Diffusion of the Cold
War in the (Southern) Periphery of the Armenian Diaspora:
The Pro/Against Soviet Divide in the Argentine-Armenian
Community 1947-1987”
Discussant:
Simon Payaslian, Boston University
5:00-5:15 pm
Coffee
Break
5:15-6:30 pm
PANEL
V: Armenians: Between a Soviet Homeland and the Diaspora
Chair:
Anush Hovhannisyan, Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia
1.
Nélida Boulgourdjian, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina, “Background of Soviet
Policy Toward the Armenian Diaspora in the Early Cold War:
The Case of the Armenian Diaspora in France and Argentina (1930-1950)”
2.
Gevorg Petrosyan, Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia, “The Impact of the Cold
War and Turkish-Soviet Relations on Armenians in Turkey and Their Relations with
Soviet Armenia (1945-1964)”
Discussant:
Eldad Ben-Aharon, Royal Holloway, University of London
6:30-9:00 pm
Reception
SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2016
10:00 am-12:00 pm
PANEL
VI: The Armenian “Cold War” in the Arab World from 1945 to
1970
Chair:
Levon Chorbajian, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
1.
Hratch Tchilingirian, University of Oxford, “The Armenian Church
During the Cold War Era and the Chasm Between Ejmiatsin and
Antelias”
2.
James Stocker, Trinity Washington University, “An Opportunity to Strike a Blow? The United States and the Struggle in the
Armenian Apostolic Church, 1956-1963”
3.
Khatchig Mouradian, Rutgers University, “The Cold War of
Genocide: April 24 Editorials in the Lebanese-Armenian Party
Political Press, 1945-1970”
Discussant:
Benjamin F. Alexander, New York City College of Technology (CUNY)
12:00-12:15 pm
Coffee
Break
12:15-1:00 pm
ROUNDTABLE
DISCUSSION I: The Chronologies of Global Cold War and the
Armenian “Cold War” Compared
Opening
remarks: Ara Sanjian, University of Michigan-Dearborn
1:00-2:30 pm
Lunch
2:30-3:45 pm
PANEL
VII: The Middle East in the 1970s and ’80s: The
Era of ASALA and JCAG
Chair:
Nélida Boulgourdjian, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina
1.
Eldad Ben Aharon, Royal Holloway, University of London, “The Cold War and Mid-East
Political Violence: An Israeli-American-Turkish Alliance?”
2.
Emre Can Daglioglu, Clark University, “Re-Shaped Identity of
Armenians in Turkey Under the Conditions of the
Cold War”
Discussant:
Vahe Sahakyan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
3:45-4:00 pm
Coffee
Break
4:00-5:15
PANEL
VIII: Soviet Armenian Historiography and the Cold War
Chair:
Tamar Boyadjian, Michigan State University
1.
Samvel Grigoryan, Independent historian, Moscow, “T‘agawor, Korol‘ or
Czar: The Impact of Soviet-Western Relations on the
Historiography of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia”
2.
Anush Hovhannisyan, Institute of Oriental Studies, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia, “Remembering the Genocide
in Soviet Armenia During the Cold War Era:
‘Private Stories’”
Discussant:
Richard G. Hovannisian, Professor Emeritus, UCLA, and
Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California
5:15-5:30
Coffee
Break
5:30-6:45
PANEL
IX: Arts and Popular Culture during the Armenian “Cold War”
Panel
chair: Sally Howell, University of Michigan-Dearborn
1.
Neery Melkonian, Independent researcher, critic and curator,
New York City, “A Third Space: Armenian
Diaspora Artists and the Cold War”
2.
Tigran Matosyan, American University of Armenia, “Sheepskin Vests in Yerevan: The Story of Soviet
Armenian Hippies”
Discussant:
Kevork Bardakjian, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
6:45-7:00
Coffee
Break
7:00-8:00
ROUNDTABLE
II: The Legacy of the Armenian “Cold War” Today;
Recommendations for Future Research
Opening
remarks: Hratch Tchilingirian, University of Oxford
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