Organized by the Armenian Studies Program
Co-sponsored by Department of Comparative Literature
April 17 & 18, 2015
Friday, April 17
10:00–10:20 am – Opening Remarks
Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan
Tamar Boyadjian, Michigan State University
10:20–10:30 am – Opening Address
Kevork Bardakjian, University of Michigan
10:00–12:00 pm – Unexplored Transmissions: Re-contextualizing Armenian Literature in the Pre-modern World
Discussant: Theo M. van Lint, University of Oxford
Michael Pifer, University of Michigan
"Welcoming the Stranger: Literary Adaptation in Middle Armenian Poetry"
Sos Bagramyan, American University of Armenia, Yerevan
“Madness and Political Possibilities in Madmen of the World Unite and King Lear”
1:00–2:15 pm – Beyond Representation: Responses to Genocide in Armenian Literature and Visual Arts
Discussant: Talar Chahinian, California State University, Long Beach
Karen Jallatyan, University of California, Irvine
“Media and the Status of Realism in Post-Catastrophe Diasporic Armenian Novel: A Case Study of Krikor Beledian's Thresholds”
Alaettin Carikci, Leiden University, Leiden
"Revisiting the Armenian Genocide in the Public Space of Istanbul"
2:30–4:00 pm – Transnational Conversations: Integrating Armenian Literature into Comparative Contexts
Discussant: Myrna Douzjian, University of California, Los Angeles; California State University, Fresno
Ali Bolcakan, University of Michigan
“Re-thinking Written Borders in Turkish Literature: Armenian Literature and the Turkish Cannon”
Narine Jallatyan, University of California, Los Angeles
“Island Languages and Linguistic Islands: Diasporic Poetry of Vahe Oshagan and Edouard Glissant”
Etienne Charriere, University of Michigan
“From Imitation to Innovation: the Western Armenian Novel and the Transnational Translating Communities of the Late Ottoman Empire”
Saturday, April 18
10:30 am – Opening Remarks
Tamar Boyadjian, Michigan State University
10:45–1:00 pm – Roundtable Discussion: The Humanities “Crisis” and the Future of Armenian Literary Studies
Respondents: Lilit Keshishyan, Hagop Gulludjian, Vahram Danielyan, and Hayk Hambardzumyan
2:00–4:00 pm – Keynote Address: Dr. Marc Nichanian
“Repetition, Translation, Translatability: The Experience of the Foreign in Vorpouni and Borges”
